Blogs

"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies."  -- Groucho

One Newstalkers’ objective is a comment structure that encourages discussion and debate.   Oddly, many sites have resorted to strict linear comments 1, 2, 3, … n.  (In part because this is very easy to implement.)  Each new comment simply falls at the end of the list.   This works fine for small discussions but does not scale.   Very quickly, people lose track of who is responding to whom....

It totally amazes me that there are actually people defending this president for using profanity to denigrate entire groups of people. The president's defenders are falling into two categories; those who state that adults use profanity and that we should all put on our big boy and big girl pants and suck it up, and those who are arguing that the president is saying only that which most...

  Hurricanes are the most violent and destructive storms in nature. There’s a smaller, yet potentially destructive, storm raging between climate scientists and climate skeptics about the nature of hurricanes. The scientific evidence points to the fact that global warming  causes hurricanes to be more intense. Skeptics would like to convince everyone that global warming has not made any...

What is a Tracker? A tracker is a mechanism built within a discussion forum that tracks comment activity and presents a custom record of this tracking for each user.  The tracker is based on the idea that each user wants to follow activity on one or more articles (a discussion or a blog).   With a tracker, a user can quickly identify the new comments across all articles the user is...

Who says discussion sites can't change opinions?  The recent talks about Christmas have shifted my position on the use of the word 'Christmas,' that does bother a certain group of secular thinkers. While right wingers are being a little too dramatic about the term 'Christmas' being under assault, their fears are not completely unfounded.  There does exist a significant group of logical...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/celebrity/twitter-makes-u-turn-deletes-rosie-o%E2%80%99donnell%E2%80%99s-lewd-ben-shapiro-tweets/ar-BBHgdWw?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartandhp

A disclaimer: This libelous piece of dribble is the sole responsibility of the half-wits at EAT THE PRESS – Do Not Read It! All complaints should be folded, stapled and shoved up your crevice, where the sun doesn’t shine. If, on the other hand, you are upset by words, but, not deeds, then, please, by all speedy means, skip this piece of "Literary Trash" and go directly to your favorite...

BREAKING NEWS:   July 7, 2019: ttps://www.cbsnews.com/news/jeffrey-epstein-arrested-in-new-york-today-on-charges-related-to-sex-trafficking-2019-07-05/ JEFFREY EPSTEIN, Trumps Best Friend, and fellow traveler Child Sexual Predator arrested. Charges of Child Sex Trafficking have been brought against him in the Southern District Court of NEW YORK, they reach back to the days when Trump and...

FRANKEN is resigning at this moment to an oration of praise by his fellow Democrat Senators for his contributions to the Senate and for his work on behalf of his Constituents from the "State of 1000 Lakes", Minnesota. Why is Franken resigning? The accusations against him, especially those from the former MALE MAGAZINE NUDE MODEL, Leeann Tweeden, a notorious porn model are BOGUS,...

The character and integrity of Robert Mueller has been under attack lately, from Republican politicians, talk show hosts, and even several of our own members here at Newstalkers.  I can't help but wonder if all of these people attacking him, are familiar with just who this man is.  The following is a brief rundown of his history. Robert Mueller was born in New York City, August 7, 1944, the...

What does a Christmas in the Alt-Right, All-White Folks-Only Trump White House look like? One see the most gigantic, "biggest, best ever" Xmas tree hung with "Indictments" dangling from its barren branches. "The Halls Are Decked" with droves of Russian Conspirators rehearsing their denials with "Holiday Cheer", slurped from a vat of cheap Trump Beer! Under the tree, gifts galore from the...