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Nutrition advice is, quite frankly, subjective.
One thing is clear: Our governments have too many laws.
It's time to stop locking people up for victimless crimes.
Politics has become absurdly, stupidly, restrictively partisan.
Absolutely no one should be arguing for a system aimed at increasing ignorance.
I can't be alone in saying that humor has gotten me through some hard times in my life.
My later jobs as a waitress felt like a posh paradise after my first one at Boston Market.
I know that money is precious - but, at least to me, laughter and expression are even more so.
To Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders is bad because she and her buddies in Congress don't 'like' him.
A person in power should never use his position to intimidate citizens from exercising their rights.
It's true: What one person might consider 'hate speech,' another might consider to be harmless, or even funny.
To me, it seems pretty obvious that socialism is terrible. After all, do you know what's not terrible? Freedom.
The truth of the matter is, 'uncomfortable' does not equal 'unsafe,' and 'disagreement' does not equal 'danger.'
See, as a libertarian, I am actually far more liberal on the issue of immigration than many people might expect.
It's true: I can't think of even a single way in which society suffers because of a 15-year-old trick-or-treater.
I think there are no good people at a white supremacist rally, and apparently that's just a real controversial take.
The truth is, every situation is different and has its own unique set of circumstances. That is reality, plain and simple.
The truth is, sometimes the best way for the government to help those in need is to stop itself from 'helping' them at all.
If you have ever read my columns, you know how important free speech is to me... and how important it should be to everyone.
Personally, my general winter rule is that, if I'm not being paid to leave my apartment, then I'll be damned if I'm leaving.
As both a First Amendment absolutist and as an American, I want to keep our government as far away from our press as possible.
I'm sorry, but there is absolutely no reason why bacon envelope glue should exist, let alone be so popular that it's sold out.
If I had my way, no one would ever be separated from his or her family over a personal choice that involved only his or her body.
As a general rule, I don't like to see laws that allow for the arrest and incarceration of people based on a sort of subjective standard.
One of the main foundations of our country is supposed to be that we value individuality, and unfortunately, that seems to be getting lost.
As a woman, I have faced issues that men do not have to face - sexism included. I think that all women have, and that is totally unacceptable.
Perhaps the most common argument against the advocates of cancel culture is that they're lame and uncreative - and I think they generally are.
The United States of America is supposed to be a free country, and its law enforcement is supposed to exist to protect and serve its citizens.
Although I certainly do love animals, I have to admit that I also love eating them. (Particularly cows. And chickens. And the occasional lamb).
People often give Biden a pass for inaccurate and misleading statements - writing them off as nothing more than Crazy Uncle Joe being Crazy Uncle Joe.
Our freedom to criticize the government - as openly and brutally as we want to - serves as a vital check against unbridled government power and control.
An invaluable part of intellectual (and personal) growth comes from having the freedom to express your own ideas, and to engage with the ideas of others.
There is value in education, but, as we do with anything else, we should start being careful to weigh that value with the price tag that's attached to it.
Is burning an American flag a disgusting, reprehensible act? Yes, it absolutely is, and I would tell that to the face of absolutely anyone who has done so.
The greatest risk in giving our government any power to control our speech is that it would then have a vehicle to prohibit speech that was critical of it.
See, believe it or not, I actually support complete free speech not because I don't care about the welfare of the American people. I support it because I do.
President Donald Trump has now sued the New York Times, the Washington Post, and CNN over opinion pieces that they've published - and really, he should stop.
I'm all for teaching about important concepts like consent; I'm also very aware of how damaging and destructive it can be to be a victim of sexual harassment.
Let me be clear: It's not that I'm not a patriot because I want to keep flag-burning legal, it's that I want to keep flag-burning legal because I am a patriot.
Kids only have a certain number of years to be kids, and the last thing we should be doing is incarcerating them for wanting to make that short-lived magic last.
In fact, I can confidently say that 'South Park's' penchant for unbridled derision has been directly responsible for my own joy in some times of terrible sadness.
In fact, despite the fact that he's somehow managed to brand himself as a moderate choice, Michael Bloomberg's record is actually that of an authoritarian nightmare.
Keeping some people behind bars often hurts more than it helps - not only for the people who had been incarcerated and their families but also for society in general.
No one should ever feel compelled to replace the development of and adherence to his or her own set of personal values and beliefs with an adherence to some partisan label.
Fall means that all of the Joy of Summer is officially over, and all of those hack fall activities that people seem to pretend to enjoy to make themselves feel better begin.
The bottom line is, our law enforcement is tasked with protecting us from harm - not with creating it by levying penalties for 'offenses' that present no real risk to anyone.
For some reason, our culture is one that preaches that furthering your education is something that is always worth the price tag, and the truth is, that simply isn't the case.
I will never, ever support a law that could clearly lead to an abuse of power just because of some lip service assuring me that it won't be used that way. To me, that's not enough.
The bottom line is: If any government has a rule that would legally allow it to punish people for things that don't deserve punishment, then that law should be scrapped or changed.
The United States is, after all, supposed to be a free country - and it has never made any sense to me that choices about what to put into our own bodies aren't ours and ours alone.