LDAHL
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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...

We have a similar problem in my area with housing registered sex offenders. The less affluent and desirable areas have the most affordable housing,...

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...

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...

Assuming Trump remains so unpopular that a Democrat arguing for removing voters from their cars and slaughtering all those flatulent cows can beat...

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...

Revenue neutral just means you raise the same amount of revenue while shifting the burden between different parties. That doesn’t solve the problem...

And eventually you still “run out of other people’s money”.

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...

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...

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...

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,...

He tried fingering his own brother, so I doubt social justice was his primary motivation.

I read that Jussie jokes are being banned on Instagram. Stuff like “Maybe his attackers were 1/1,024 white supremacist”.

Hope he was a better actor than a scriptwriter.

Just think of the glorious opportunity for government overreach the Green New Dealers will have if they get a mandate to retool the economy.

Yes, and that electoral philosophy got him no further than the Texas Department of Agriculture. I admire a commitment to ideological purity. I...

That is exactly what the Democrats should do. Purge the fanatical moderates! The people yearn for revolution!

As is the alacrity with which we accept lies that conform with our preconceived notions. I hear that Covington Catholic kid is suing the...

That is probably a liability in the present climate.

I would predicate that conclusion on the available evidence. Despite some of Trump’s circle getting squeezed on unrelated or process crimes the...

I see the FBI and USPS are now investigating whether he sent himself a threatening letter.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

I see former political outlier Bernie Sanders is officially in He almost seems quaintly conservative in the current field of contenders.

Are they homeless because they’re being outbid for the existing housing stock or because the existing housing stock is limited by restrictions on...

Yes, 87.5% of Americans want positive things if we leave the matter of paying the tab for later consideration.

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

Nothing for that. Mostly national security issues and blocking trade with various bad actors.

I was surprised to learn that 58 States of Emergency have been declared since 1979, of which 31 are still in effect.

A bit more than a century and a half ago, a wall would have impeded our invasion of Mexico.

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?

This ridiculous guy does it: http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20140516-i-operate-on-people-400km-away

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...

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....

Having managed a payroll for many years, I can attest to the truth of this. Far too many people, including well-educated professionals, seem...

Not yet. But it’s only a matter of time.

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...

I think big political projects like the wall or the “new green deal” are meant as political rallying points rather than actual policy goals....

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...

Donald Trump is manifestly ridiculous and a historic embarrassment. And yet the growing throng of opposition candidates seem eager to jump the shark...

Will the green new deal become a primary litmus test? Will it require political courage for candidates to demur from promising “economic security...

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.

Re-reading “The Personal Memoirs of US Grant”. From an era before ghostwriters and “composite characters”. A dying man speaking honestly about his...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...