This worked for Pope Benedict IX.

We’re not at war with Russia, so treason is out. An “enemy” of the United States, for the purposes of the constitutional definition of treason, is a party against which Congress has declared war.

“What reasonable person acts as if their opinion is the only correct one?”

“the gospels always portrayed Jesus as being not a fan of the sanctimonious, holier-than-thou, religious purist types.” 

Thanks. I, too, support net neutrality, but the whining hypocrisy of posts like this (“IT’S ONLY FUNNY WHEN I AGREE WITH IT!”) is what’s destroying this country. It’s how we ended up with Trump, for one.

The Marist poll is nevertheless one of the most highly-regarded in the country. It’s in the Top 10 in Nate Silver’s pollster database.

The over/under is about 100%. For any given large-scale measure pushed by either party, you WILL be able to find a hypocrite and/or idiot in the House backbench who WILL reveal that all his flowery rhetoric, no matter how lengthy and elaborate and sincere-sounding, was really a smokescreen for him to impose his…

It was ruled constitutional to charge him separately *because there were distinct factual elements to be proved*. For the first charge, they had to prove that the morphine sold was not in its original stamped package; for the second, they had to prove that the morphine was sold to an unauthorized person. Those are…

As I understand the standard set by Blockburger v. United States, that wouldn’t work with these two charges; it would be double jeopardy, which is unconstitutional. I may be mistaken—IANAL—but I have a hard time seeing how first-degree assault and third-degree attempted murder would involve “proof of a different…

“Exactly what is it about pulling out a gun, pointing it at people, and pulling the trigger that makes proving attempted murder so difficult?

Attempted murder *is* a thing, but, in this case, it would have been both (a) harder to prove, and (b) carried a lesser sentence. (Max sentence for first-degree assault in Minnesota: 20 years. Max sentence for third-degree attempted murder: 13 years.)

@sk04: Check MN Statutes 609.17, and you will find what you seek.

He’ll be fine. His power isn’t in his beliefs. His power is in the way he causes a certain class of people to try to shut him down. The Far Right only cares about Milo insofar as the Far Left reacts to him. Thus, his beliefs don’t matter at all — only the Left’s reaction to him expressing them.

YOU ARE NOT. Every time I see it, I start checking my Away Team for Empathy, Diplomacy, Anthropology, and Computer Skill so we can overcome the dilemma. It’s irritating, but I thought I was the only one who suffered from this, so have never complained.

Paramount did not need to create a fake series to crush Axanar in court. Axanar’s own actions made them liable. I’m not saying I love our copyright laws as they stand, but I read all the court filings, and how often did Discovery come up, in all those thousands of pages of documents? Twice?

They needed SOME abbreviation for the Star Trek Encylcopedia, so they picked one!

Would you be any happier to learn it was a bipartisan bill that passed the Senate with 80 votes?

The first? I think you’re forgetting Justice Robert Grier, among others.

“The Senate is supposed to be where you find the professionals, the ones who know and like people on the other side of the aisle, the ones who moderate the whack jobs over in the House. It isn’t supposed to be hyper political and now it is and that really sucks.”

You would make an advice columnist’s day by sending this to her. It is the most golden advice-seeking letter I have ever seen. It has everything! Married sex. Undisciplined kids that let the upper-middle-class advice-column readers feel faintly smug. And, of course, a completely mundane problem taking to a…