Recent content by Silais

Thank you for the blanket stereotype of pro-lifers. It's wonderful to see someone try to shut someone else's opinions of beliefs down by using the insult of "emotional". Because we all know that emotions never factor into anything human beings do, and being emotional on a topic is unreasonable...

I'm almost 100% pro-life, and the reason for that is because there are some exceptions (such as rape/incest, threat to mother or life-threatening defects for the unborn baby) that I have to take into consideration. But in every other case, I say absolutely I am pro-life. Let's be real here...

Dear anonymous, I wish you cared about how your porn addiction hurts me. About how it makes me feel inferior and unwanted, and how it makes me not trust you. I wish you'd actually listen to my concerns every time I bring it up instead of waving me off like it doesn't matter. I can't marry...

Anyone can talk the talk. He may have a history of walking the walk, but we will have to see if being president impedes his ability to do what he wants to do. Even good candidates who have a history of making bold claims tend to end up sitting in the White House twiddling their thumbs.

The only viable candidate I can think of is perhaps Dr. Ben Carson, because of his background in medicine and his obvious high intelligence. None of the other candidates, Democrat or Republican, interest me in the least. None of them really deserve to be president. They're all the same; big...

We have issues with gentrification here. My fiance and I live in a small town (12,000+) in South Dakota that's around 60% poor whites. Recently new apartments, townhouses and houses have been built all over town, increasing its value but reducing options for poor citizens needing housing. Here...

I hate to agree with Zimmerman on anything (he's a real scumbag) but his anti-Muslim buddy is quite right about how our knee-jerk reaction to a symbol like the Confederate flag has caused an upsurge in the removal of historical items related to the Confederacy. By removing symbols from history...

47 million Americans are on food stamps. It may not be a matter of how MUCH food America has, but a matter of how difficult it is to get it. I think the problem you are having with this discussion is that you are assuming all of these immigrants have it worse than many American citizens do...

I suppose I'm confused because of how you present your position. These two points seem to contradict one another. On one hand, you claim that only those who have helped you---your family---are the only people you truly care about, and that you couldn't care less about other strangers, American...

I think this has to do with the fact that we as Americans receive very little sick time or vacation. I may have a cold or the flu, but if I only receive a week or two of sick leave a year, can I really risk taking time off?

It's definitely news to me that being patriotic, caring about the state of your country, and wanting to help the people within it is now considered twisted. If you go through the legal process and become an American citizen the correct way, I have no problem with what country you came from...

Let me explain it this way; if you had to choose between helping a member of your family or an outsider, who would you be more likely to help? We as American citizens have a duty to protect and help one another; in a way, we are one large family. How would you feel if an outsider, from a foreign...

Saying a few thousand immigrants won't change the state of our healthcare system is like saying a few thousand dead civilians in a war doesn't make any difference. Every person who strains the system is making it more and more difficult for everyone else. Sure, it may be a minute difference at...

Maybe I'm a bad person, but I think this is the root of the problem when it comes to discussing illegal immigration in the United States. We have one of the most lax borders in the modern world. Despite all of the money and resources we dedicate towards preventing illegal immigration, we still...

I'm not exactly surprised about this. House Republicans have been quite candid when it comes to the fact that, regardless of what Obama and the Democrats are promoting, they will do as much as they possibly can to prevent it from being passed into law. Suing the president is just another act of...