LDAHL
Senior Member

You’re right. Apparently New York pretty much limits first degree homicide to killing judges and first responders, murder for hire and terrorism. I...

I like to believe that screaming for blood would not be among the options I would consider. We can’t always control the situations we find...

A hundred years ago, people were blaming the automobile for the naughty things people who got up to in them. Maybe it’s like that.

Rare good sense from the NYT.

Same here. We only see the nut-picking clips of one of them saying something especially stupid or outrageous. For all I know, it’s 90% celebrity...

I think you’re pushing a false dichotomy here. Deploring a murder has nothing to do with one’s opinions about the insurance industry. There is no...

I don’t think you quite understand how insurance works. Do you honestly believe that murdering a CEO immediately changes a company’s policies and...

I’m curious why New York is only charging him with second degree murder.

The guy basically spent 25 years arguing that government should empower guys like him to make economic decisions rather than leave them up to the...

No they weren’t. All this sad little narcissist accomplished was to add to the sum total of human misery. While any number of internet ghouls can get...

Whatever I or you think about the victim is irrelevant. Someone who murders a helpless man and runs away strikes me as the opposite of heroic. That...

If your idea of a hero is a coward who shoots an unarmed man in the back, sure.

Looks like the guy they’ve taken into custody is a unibomber fan who carries around his own manifesto against the health insurance industry. Your...

I read that a BLM leader has referred to the acquittal as “a victory for the KKK”.

How long until we see a “Law and Order” episode based on this?

I think four or five times over the years. I think this time the unions are counting on a narrow liberal majority on the WI Supreme Court. That could...

You’re right. I also lack the time to delve into the details of Scientology for much the same reason. I reject the basic premise. Label it as you...

He seemed to have a soft spot for terrorists.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_pardoned_or_granted_clemency_by_the_president_of_the_United_States If Wikipedia is to be believed,...

After the debate fiasco, the Party grandees decided Biden was unfit to run for president (although not, apparently, to be the president). The Harris...

I see the difference between Trump and Biden to be more of style than substance. When Trump does something reprehensible, he just does it because he...

Sunk to what? Seeing the bright side to murder? So you think it’s a good idea to butcher the occasional CEO to encourage the others? Would the...

I didn’t read the second book because: It was simply a rehash of the first book. I generally don’t have time for people who think they’ve...

The most egregious alleged influence-peddling seems to have occurred in the 2014-2017 period, which would explain the lengthy blanket coverage. So it...

Can the recipient of a blanket presidential pardon still plead the fifth amendment if called to testify at other people’s trials or hearings?

I read that the pardon covers any offenses committed between January 1, 2014 and December 1, 2024. Just in case someone missed something. This...

Possibly the year’s most predictable broken promise

It’s one of the tiny minority of Christmas movies I can tolerate, but I never got that joke until I read the article.

Tradition won in the end. There’s a cute joke about it in “Holiday Inn”, where the turkey runs back and forth between two dates on the calendar...

Despite the best efforts of the politics-are-personal minority, I view it as a nonpartisan holiday that prizes gratitude over grievance. And of...

They can call it what they like, but mercantilism is a very old and a very dumb idea. Between a series of trade wars and a strong possibility of an...

I think we will be hearing a lot of overheated rhetoric in the immediate future. Illegal immigration was such a winning issue for Trump, it’s hard to...

It’s like he has his own version of “OK Boomer”. The View was never much on my radar until this most recent election. I was aware of them as a...

Wrangling the divas at the Washington Post and the prima donnas at Fox would be a challenge worthy of his mettle.

Joe Rogan told Elon Musk that if he buys MSNBC he’d be happy to take Maddow’s job. He said he’d even wear the same glasses and tell the same lies. I...

I like what Tom Homan said on the matter: “If he’s willing to go, I’m willing to send him”. I did hear that the mayor walked back his promise to...

I was impressed by the commitment of those women who shaved their heads and announced a sex strike to punish America, especially male America, for...

I read “Generations” about ten years ago, but wasn’t terribly impressed. It seemed to me they cherry picked various historical events to support the...

That’s pretty bad, although less so than Gratz. So it’s a sort of improvement.

It’s incredible how creative people can be, even without direct access to cash. In my years in small government, I had to deal with people finding...

Embezzlement in churches and other nonprofit organizations is a much bigger problem than a lot of people realize. You often have low paid or unpaid...

You forgot “neurotypical”.

Give it time. The JFK mythology took years to reach its present state. Perhaps years from now we will see Trump assassination websites.

There are many areas where breaking the law is easier. But that isn’t much of an argument for breaking the law.

Some things are too complicated to fit on a bumper sticker.

I suspect we will see a renaissance of interest in federalism in blue states as people like Newsom seek to be seen as leaders of the “resistance”. ...

What sort of corruption are you accusing her of?

There seem to be two primary arguments against maintaining better control over who can enter and stay in this country. The first is the emotional...

I see Gaetz is now out of the running. I would have thought he’d have been really difficult to confirm, given his past silliness and...

That’s true. But if it’s more difficult for people here illegally to get work here, I think that would reduce probably the primary reason for coming...

Well, he certainly seems to have picked up some of their bad habits and panders. It’s one reason I couldn’t vote for him.

Wasn’t E-verify going to help stem the tide of illegal immigration by making it difficult to seek employment here? Has it not been implemented or...

Just watch out for Cossacks tovarisch.