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    Patently unconstitutional': What experts say about Ken Paxton urging Lord's Prayer in Texas schools

    A) It’s Oaxton’s known, spoken, part of the public record thoughts on the matter Bo “egg heads involved. Just the Fourth Estate documenting what goes on. B) It doesn’t take an egg head to know that we have a SECULAR CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC, not a theocracy.
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    In rare interviews, federal judges criticize Supreme Court's handling of Trump cases

    “Undermining”? It’s making a mockery of the federal court system. Making ruling OBVIOUSLY in direct contradiction to our Rule of Law and past precedent. It’s obviously partisan politics and such is supposed to have no business in our courts. The courts are supposed to exist to be a specific...
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    Patently unconstitutional': What experts say about Ken Paxton urging Lord's Prayer in Texas schools

    Please read. It states Paxton not only favors prayer in school but SPECIFICALLY the “Lord’s Prayer”.
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    What Is Your Money Worth.

    Still not great compared to the minimum wage in 1970 compared to today. The U.S. federal minimum wage in 1970 was $1.45 per hour, which, when adjusted for inflation, had a purchasing power equivalent to approximately $11.58 per hour in 2024. In contrast, the current federal minimum wage is...
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    Patently unconstitutional': What experts say about Ken Paxton urging Lord's Prayer in Texas schools

    That is Paxton’s stated opinion, which was what the comment addressed. Not the Bill.
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    What Is Your Money Worth.

    According to the BLS inflation calculator $1 in January 1970 is equivalent to $8.55 today. https://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm Of course this varies depending in what’s being purchased. Certain segments have seen more inflation, others less.
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    Patently unconstitutional': What experts say about Ken Paxton urging Lord's Prayer in Texas schools

    Plrease read the bolded text.
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    Patently unconstitutional': What experts say about Ken Paxton urging Lord's Prayer in Texas schools

    Are not the religious views of Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, et al, being removed if a Christian prayer is mandated during the day in a school system of our supposedly secular government?
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    Biologically, when does human life begin?

    It changes with the state of medical science and the leasing edge technology capable of lending support to allow the fetus to come to term outside the host. The current medical thoughts on extraordinary measures survival outside the host in the U.S is 24 weeks. Though some take that down to 22.
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    [W:1] MLB 2025

    No player is worth that kind of money BUT… If the owners are going to make tens of billions with their jacked up ticket and concession prices, charge $30 to park your car, and take all the fares off free TV and make you pay for them on MLB.com, then the players deserve their cut for their labor.
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    Tax The Rich!

    No. I have made my point, I say it seems you have validated my point, so ... it’s up to the assembled reading along to decide at this point. Move the meeting. Until the next go round I hope your life goes well.
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    Tax The Rich!

    Wow. Just wow. 🤷‍♂️
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    Tax The Rich!

    No I’m right because since the recording of our history the topic has been debated on what constitutes the structure of ethical behavior. Socrates, Plato on down. The jury is in on this. Using one’s power, money, influence to limit the ability of others to achieve fair value for their labor...
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    'Russia-Russia-Russia!'

    That’s a falsehood. A situation where numbers, by adjusting filters, are made to lie. When you “average”, taking the vast difference of the top 3% and by averaging spread that out among everyone else their vast inequity lifts the figure to that amount even though its spread out among many...
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    Removing pro-birth people from the abortion debate

    Ok. Then we agree and you’ve seen my argument for why that should be the case. I thought that was your stance and I seem to have misinterpreted the post I originally responded to as a change in your previous position.
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