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2-22-19, 5:34pm
What’s being put forward is not a plan to solve one big ecological problem. It’s a plan to use a big ecological problem as cover to turn over a large...
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2-22-19, 4:24pm
We have a similar problem in my area with housing registered sex offenders. The less affluent and desirable areas have the most affordable housing,...
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2-22-19, 3:41pm
We persist.
What they will do is create a regulatory regime that will over time make things like private cars even of the oversized golf cart...
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2-22-19, 10:58am
Quite liked the first season of “The Umbrella Academy”. Ellen Page’s character kind of rubbed me the wrong eternal-victim way, but I think that was...
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2-21-19, 1:21pm
Assuming Trump remains so unpopular that a Democrat arguing for removing voters from their cars and slaughtering all those flatulent cows can beat...
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2-21-19, 12:24pm
Even the most grandiose plans require some kind of actual plan. They also require some level of confidence in the planners and a consensus that the...
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2-21-19, 12:00pm
Revenue neutral just means you raise the same amount of revenue while shifting the burden between different parties. That doesn’t solve the problem...
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2-21-19, 11:54am
And eventually you still “run out of other people’s money”.
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2-21-19, 11:37am
I’m fine with that. But it won’t be enough to fund Utopia or replace the internal combustion engine with perpetual motion machines in the near...
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2-21-19, 11:16am
Upping the marginal income tax rates and finding a way around the Constitution to implement a federal wealth tax will not begin to raise all the...
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2-21-19, 10:58am
Well, if he was “dreaming of a way to kill every last person on Earth”, you could hardly accuse him of the bias people want to associate with red...
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2-21-19, 10:39am
I’m guessing that over the next few years the question “How do you intend to pay for that?” will generate a mighty torrent of creative wordsmithery,...
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2-21-19, 7:51am
He tried fingering his own brother, so I doubt social justice was his primary motivation.
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2-21-19, 7:36am
I read that Jussie jokes are being banned on Instagram. Stuff like “Maybe his attackers were 1/1,024 white supremacist”.
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2-20-19, 8:26pm
Hope he was a better actor than a scriptwriter.
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2-20-19, 6:27pm
Just think of the glorious opportunity for government overreach the Green New Dealers will have if they get a mandate to retool the economy.
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2-20-19, 5:24pm
Yes, and that electoral philosophy got him no further than the Texas Department of Agriculture.
I admire a commitment to ideological purity. I...
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2-20-19, 4:46pm
That is exactly what the Democrats should do. Purge the fanatical moderates! The people yearn for revolution!
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2-20-19, 1:12pm
As is the alacrity with which we accept lies that conform with our preconceived notions.
I hear that Covington Catholic kid is suing the...
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2-20-19, 12:56pm
That is probably a liability in the present climate.
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2-20-19, 12:47pm
I would predicate that conclusion on the available evidence. Despite some of Trump’s circle getting squeezed on unrelated or process crimes the...
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2-20-19, 11:51am
I see the FBI and USPS are now investigating whether he sent himself a threatening letter.
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2-20-19, 11:44am
The Russian Federation is a mere shadow of its former imperial self. Just ask the Poles, Czechs and Hungarians. Putin has to content himself with...
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2-20-19, 10:49am
I find it passing strange that people like Sherrod Brown and Amy Klobuchar represent the far right of the field. Would Bill Clinton even be...
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2-20-19, 10:27am
That certainly seems to figure in a lot of people’s fantasies, and I would much prefer a President Pence, but I would suspect if there was a true...
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2-20-19, 1:36am
Heaven indeed forbid that we do! A particularly brutal and stupid vehicle for socialism. Only an idiot or an academic would be foolish enough to...
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2-19-19, 3:13pm
It’s been said that the difference between communism and socialism is that communism begins with a gun in your face while socialism ends with a gun...
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2-19-19, 12:49pm
I miss Reagan. I miss the way he just laughed off the insults of the ankle-biters of the time. They would call him stupid even as he wiped the floor...
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2-19-19, 10:14am
I share Jane’s optimism, although probably for different reasons. I think history will regard the furor over the wall as a trivial matter, with both...
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2-19-19, 9:39am
I see former political outlier Bernie Sanders is officially in He almost seems quaintly conservative in the current field of contenders.
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2-18-19, 3:40pm
Are they homeless because they’re being outbid for the existing housing stock or because the existing housing stock is limited by restrictions on...
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2-18-19, 12:59pm
Yes, 87.5% of Americans want positive things if we leave the matter of paying the tab for later consideration.
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2-18-19, 12:54pm
His stance on immigration and trade were very similar to Trump’s, albeit for different stated reasons. He seemed to be interested in using the tax...
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2-18-19, 11:06am
I’m not clear on what the Democratic Socialists mean when they say “socialism”.
Is it a control of the means of production thing in the classic...
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2-18-19, 10:20am
So if Democrats abstain from voting on the resolution would that mean they hate the planet too? Or do they really have feelings for the planet, but...
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2-18-19, 9:59am
The Chicago Police are currently trying to determine whether a racist/homophobic attack reported by an actor was in fact staged by him. There are...
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2-17-19, 9:01pm
I can’t figure out if AOC represents an existential threat to our way of life, God’s gift to the GOP or a sort of Paris Hilton phenomenon.
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2-15-19, 10:38am
We seem to be living in a time of peak touchiness. People take offense on behalf of other’s imagined offense, and the accused offender is offended by...
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2-14-19, 8:55pm
Nothing for that. Mostly national security issues and blocking trade with various bad actors.
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2-14-19, 8:48pm
I was surprised to learn that 58 States of Emergency have been declared since 1979, of which 31 are still in effect.
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2-14-19, 8:43pm
I see that Mitch McConnell wants to schedule a vote on the NGD resolution drafted by Reps Markey and Ocasio-Cortez. He wants to give senators the...
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2-13-19, 3:30pm
A bit more than a century and a half ago, a wall would have impeded our invasion of Mexico.
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2-13-19, 3:06pm
If anyone on that list runs against Trump, I will
vote third party again. How do you make an intelligent choice between disaster and catastrophe?
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2-12-19, 6:21pm
This ridiculous guy does it:
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20140516-i-operate-on-people-400km-away
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2-12-19, 3:00pm
I say unto you when Our Lady of Twitter redeems personkind through the grace of the GND, and those who labor not exercise their right to the...
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2-12-19, 11:54am
For most people, it’s really not that complicated. But like a lot of personal finance issues, people seem to find it too tedious to deal with....
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2-12-19, 11:09am
Having managed a payroll for many years, I can attest to the truth of this. Far too many people, including well-educated professionals, seem...
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2-12-19, 10:06am
Not yet. But it’s only a matter of time.
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2-11-19, 11:43am
The Moral Majority was 30-40 years ago. And looking at the current landscape, they don’t seem to have made much of a lasting impression. I think it’s...
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2-10-19, 2:35pm
I think big political projects like the wall or the “new green deal” are meant as political rallying points rather than actual policy goals....
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2-8-19, 5:34pm
Is it cynical to doubt that the country at large is ripe for a historic lurch to the left? I don’t think so. Is it cynical to suspect a crowded...
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2-8-19, 1:55pm
Donald Trump is manifestly ridiculous and a historic embarrassment. And yet the growing throng of opposition candidates seem eager to jump the shark...
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2-8-19, 9:09am
Will the green new deal become a primary litmus test? Will it require political courage for candidates to demur from promising “economic security...
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2-7-19, 12:22pm
I see someone has begun planting stories that Amy Klobuchar is a mean boss who can’t retain good staff. I wasn’t even aware she had declared yet.
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2-7-19, 8:58am
Re-reading “The Personal Memoirs of US Grant”. From an era before ghostwriters and “composite characters”. A dying man speaking honestly about his...
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2-6-19, 10:41pm
I can remember when dredging up the real or imagined sins of 30-40 years ago was limited to special cases. Fugitive Nazis and so forth.
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2-6-19, 12:12pm
It is far beyond my poor powers to take attention away from the Twitter-in-Chief. I will admit to enjoying the spectacle of all the jockeying for...
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2-5-19, 5:36pm
I see Tulsi Gabbard is in it now. She got an early endorsement from David Duke, who apparently reasoned that since she wouldn’t intervene to defend...
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2-5-19, 5:14pm
I have found marriage to be fairly labor-intensive myself; but when I amortize the work and aggravation over the life of the investment there’s a...
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2-5-19, 3:26pm
There are no guarantees and everyone is different, but I believe you have to work at being happy. It’s not an entitlement or a lottery prize. You...
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