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Should the US government start spending more on repairing infrastructure? Should they invest in high-speed rail projects? Almost all spending on transportation, drinking water, and wastewater infrastructure is done by the public sector. Federal, state, and local governments spent $416 billion...

There are so many posters without an avatar! This made me think, if you could create an avatar for any other poster on TOL, what would it look like? Paste the image in this thread...have fun with it.

I had a thread that was closed here, which was intended to highlight the highlights and shed light on the lowlights of the current president, Donald Trump. I was personally trying to be objective as possible. I had made posts about aspects I like as I made posts of aspect I did not like...

How many posters are getting a constant barrage of negative rep :spam: from others on TOL? I know a few posters just love to try their hardest to drop others rep by constantly neg repping. I'd be happy to boost anyone back up based on the quality of their posts, rather than my contempt for...

For entertainment value, feel free to post your favorites! Have fun :e4e:

Everyone believes in some form of gun control. I had created a thread on this topic a few years back but I am not able to locate it due to a purge and/or the current issue with the search function. Are the current gun control laws too lax or too strict? If there were any changes you could make...

Edit: Additional examples - many from later in this very thread

If an individual is opposed to abortion being an option in all scenarios except for rape or incest or incest rape, is that individual pro-life or pro-choice?

I noticed that no one has of yet started a thread about President Trump :noid: If you are a Trump supporter What has Trump done that you think is just great? What would it take for you to change your mind about Trump being a good president? If you are not a Trump supporter What has he done...

This thread is devoted to everything that has to do with the Trump budget. It is early in the planning stages but he has indicated that we wants to increase military spending by 10% ($54 billion), increase law enforcement budgets and increase infrastructure budgets. He wants to make cuts at the...

Parents should be allowed to have their newborn babies killed because they are “morally irrelevant” and ending their lives is no different to abortion, a group of medical ethicists linked to Oxford University has argued. The article, published in the Journal of Medical Ethics, says newborn...

It appears to be a race between these 4 for next president :eek: Who will you vote for and why? Who will win and why? What policies will these individuals seek to implement and how will these policies help or hurt you or the United States or even the world as a whole? Who will the eventual...

Planned Parenthood sues Utah after it cuts off federal money Republican Gov. Gary Herbert's action was unconstitutional and based on unfounded allegations, the Planned Parenthood Association of Utah said in federal court documents. Utah's decision to cut off funding followed similar moves in...

To continue a discussion about various socioeconomic theories that started around here. I invite any of those interested in continuing this discussion... :e4e:

I have noticed a growing trend among humanist organizations in their taking legal action against religious expression. I have created this thread in order to offer examples of this type of activism in an effort to expose the whiners and what they are whining about. Though most examples will be...

Can someone who considers themselves pro-life argue that it should be legal for an 11-year-old rape victim to legally obtain an abortion? What is she was 13? 15? 18? What if an 11-year-old gets pregnant through consensual sex? Draw your arbitrary line in the sand and let us know your...

Post your neg reps, who they're from and the reason they say they gave you one. This should be interesting :)

- Do not tell someone that you're placing them on ignore if you're going to continue to respond to them after claiming to do so.

Or mother marrying daughter? I started a thread a while back entitled For "Gay Marriage" But Against Legalizing Polygamy? It was an interesting thread to say the least. It seems most individuals in favor of legalizing same-sex marriage generally have no issue with legalizing multiple spouses...

:sibbie: Do NOT mess with bybee Rules: No locking thread No deleting tags Everyone in the thread must place at least one thread tag Really, Inzl. Lighten up and stop taking yourself and your new found glory so serious. It's suffocating.