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"Muslim bakeries" are few and far between in flyover country so most gay couples probably wouldn't have the opportunity to get discriminated against whereas it's pretty easy to find an evangelical or fundamentalist in comparison.

This episode took place in Dearborn, which has a large Muslim population unlike Arkansas or Colorado;

it's interesting that a sting was required to find the offending bakeries.

Anyway, if a bakery is exposed this way, it should be fined and compelled to obey the law. No one's "religious freedom" is being violated — those who claims religious persecution because they have to pipe "Ben and Steve Forever" on a cake are making a mockery of the religious freedom clause in the 1st amendment.

for example, if your special, can you be very special??

You sound pretty sure about this statement?

You must also think cows still walk the streets of Denver...

It reeks of targeting.

There shouldn't be a law in the first place, it's stupid to make people do things against their beliefs.

Senior Republican adviser says something is ‘deeply wrong’ with Donald Trump

Comments follow what adviser described as ‘the most bizarre press conference in history’

A senior Republican adviser said there is something “deeply wrong” about President Donald Trump after watching his first solo press conference in office.

"Something is deeply wrong with our president and the country is in danger," wrote Gabriel Schoenfeld, former adviser to Mitt Romney during the 2012 presidential campaign, in an op-ed for New York Daily News.

"The danger will only be averted when the Republican leadership in Congress publicly acknowledges what they and the rest of the entire world already know: America's president is not wearing any clothes."

Mr Schoenfeld listed the controversies that Mr Trump has sparked or dealt with during four weeks in the White House. This included his immigration executive order being blocked by a federal court, his open feud with intelligence agencies and his national security adviser Michael Flynn resigning over his calls to the Russian ambassador.

The Republican adviser concluded that the President was "delusional" if he really believed his statements that his government was a "fine-tuned machine", or that his Muslim ban had enjoyed a "perfect roll-out".

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This view seems to be shared by a growing number of people.

Given what was in them, I was definitely fine with those leaks. The timing was stupid, but we're learning more about that every day.

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As noted in many places, many times, the problem is the fire, not the alarm.

The United States is much better off without Michael Flynn serving as national security adviser. But no one should be cheering the way he was brought down.[...]

[N]o matter what Flynn did, it is simply not the role of the deep state to target a man working in one of the political branches of the government by dishing to reporters about information it has gathered clandestinely. [...]

The chaotic, dysfunctional Trump White House is placing the entire system under enormous strain. That's bad. But [...] as Eli Lake of Bloomberg News put it in an important article following Flynn's resignation,

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Normally intercepts of U.S. officials and citizens are some of the most tightly held government secrets. This is for good reason. Selectively disclosing details of private conversations monitored by the FBI or NSA gives the permanent state the power to destroy reputations from the cloak of anonymity. This is what police states do.

Those cheering the deep state torpedoing of Flynn are saying, in effect, that a police state is perfectly fine so long as it helps to bring down Trump.

It is the role of Congress to investigate the president and those who work for him. If Congress resists doing its duty, out of a mixture of self-interest and cowardice, the American people have no choice but to try and hold the government's feet to the fire, demanding action with phone calls, protests, and, ultimately, votes. That is a democratic response to the failure of democracy.

Sitting back and letting shadowy, unaccountable agents of espionage do the job for us simply isn't an acceptable alternative.

Down that path lies the end of democracy in America.

Traditional politics also stopped the relegation of black people to second class status.

Michael Moore had written along similar lines when he prediced Trump's victory one month before the election. Moore's got his finger on the country's pulse alright.

Yes, he does so to keep his admirers in the know. This is his personal blog now and he only wants to read the positive comments.