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"...It has long been the case that American women are generally more liberal than American men. But among young Americans, this gender gap has widened into an enormous rift: According to recent Gallup polling, there is a 30-point difference between the number of women age 18–30 who self-identify as liberal and the number of men in that demographic who do the same.

That’s largely because young women have gotten much more liberal, while young men have stayed ideologically more consistent—or, according to other analyses, become more conservative and anti-feminist. (Of course, not every person identifies as a man or woman. But gender roles still play a big part in shaping our lives and politics, and in the context of this column, I am focusing mostly on the vast majority of Americans who identify as one or the other.) It’s not happening just here either; the political divide between the sexes is a trend that researchers are observing in some other countries too..."

Hey Tman, you got suckered by your own again!!



"...But as Sarah Rumpf points out in her piece on Mediaite, Stewart's situation is nothing at all like Trump's, and Stewart's real estate valuations and sale were commonplace, nonfraudulent, and perfectly legal.

What's happening here is Pool, Jacob, and other critics attacking Stewart are conflating three different types of real estate values. Whether that's being done through an innocent mistake or a deliberate effort to spread misinformation, we'll leave it to the reader to decide, but they're confusing 1) the actual market value of a property, or what someone would be willing to pay for it, 2) the property's taxable value as assessed by a governmental agency property appraiser, and 3) documentation about a property's value submitted to a lender for the purposes of securing a loan.

Trump got in trouble for committing fraud regarding that third category, the information the Trump Org submitted to lenders to secure loans. Among the misrepresentations, perhaps the most egregious was the "tripling of the size of the Trump Tower Penthouse," which Judge Arthur Engoron noted in his scathing ruling was an undeniable and indefensible falsehood.

t's incredibly common for there to be a vast disparity between a property appraiser's assessed value and the actual real world market value for residential real estate across the country — plus multiple limitations under state law on how the government can value your property.

[T]he property appraiser's assessed valuation was both a public record accessible to the buyer and a number over which Stewart had no control.

Stewart's real estate transaction was totally above board, no laws were broken, and no fraud was committed..."

Trump's submitted market value was in line with the lender's own evaluation. The judge was using the tax assessment as a property value. That judge has no business judicating a case like this.

"Quite terrifying': Lifelong diver spots frightening phenomenon in the water"

The people they serve say defund them.

Do you understand why they say that?

Want to see how the NYPD behaves?

Do you understand why they say that?

No Very stupid.

The family didn't want her there. And Bragg also.

Although, many people were clapping their hands as she left.

Exactly.  Most PD's, PD unions, and the NYPD in particular seem to think that they are not servants but rather and equal branch of government. If not a government of their own.  That needs to end.