Comments by whiterabbit
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Posted on February 16 at 3:20 p.m.
The United States as a nation was not "founded under religious toleration." Religious toleration is the idea that an established church will tolerate the existence of dissenters from that established church. Religious freedom is the idea that the state does not care if you do or do not practice religion.
As for state-sanctioned churches, there were such things in the early republic because the Bill of Rights did not then apply to the states. The states of Massachusetts and Connecticut both had established churches into the 1810s.
Posted on April 3 at 9:38 p.m.
I hope that grandchild is really a who instead of a that. Perhaps that grandchild can find your mistakes in the comments.
Posted on February 25 at 4:49 p.m.
The IRS is very clear that the 2008 stimulus payment is not included in last year's income. They have a good bit of material devoted to this on their site.
Posted on February 12 at 10:07 a.m.
It is not true that the "time he lived in" demanded that he kill the birds in order to draw them. Mark Catesby was drawing birds while they were alive in the early 1700s.
Posted on January 24 at 1:16 p.m.
It's too bad columns like this that invite reflection and discussion seem to receive very few comments whereas those that can be responded to with conspiracy theories, taunts, anger, and canned mantras have their dancecards full.
Posted on January 23 at 8:20 p.m.
It would be hard to be pre-determined until after the fact. But the case you make is reasonable. In fact, I think it is the Lockean basis of car-jacking laws.
Posted on January 23 at 8:14 p.m.
That would be posts not post. And I hope you can understand that you are discussing two different situations.
Posted on January 23 at 7:41 p.m.
Advocating premeditated violence against individuals is a crime in Mississippi.
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Posted on February 18 at 1:03 p.m.
Religion in the American colonies did not start as catholic. It started as Puritan congregationalism in New England, and Anglicanism in the South. William Penn founded Pennsylvania for Quakers later in the seventeenth century. Maryland was founded as a haven for Roman Catholics in the 1630s, but Roman Catholics were a minority there from the colony's earliest days.
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