Yes, even natural gas has a short term role to play. The key is to have diversity in our energy supply.

Cheney invented the 1% doctrine. That is- if there’s a 1% chance that Iraq had WMD’s we had to act. Given that there’s a higher than 1% chance that unless we act quickly, climate change would kill many more people and cost many more lives, that means we must act under Cheney’s logic, no?

Cost: The Iraq war has cost us…

I find it strange that we’re more than happy to make utopian predictions about how great life will be with large tax cuts (‘paid for’ with $1T+ in deficit spending), but suddenly, we need to be erudite, analytical, and pragmatic when it comes to a Green New Deal.

I want to see Trump impeached, but not before there’s enough evidence presented.  By demanding impeachment now, he’s undermining the cause for impeachment because there isn’t (yet) solid proof of high crimes and misdemeanors. It only serves to validate the excuse that the impeachment is partisan and rallies the base. …

I believe something traumatic happened, but I don’t believe Mary Elizabeth did it.*

Still, given the extremely shady relationship between Trump and AMI, it’s easy to see why Bezos’ team wouldn’t at least entertain the possibility that something slightly fishier than typical phone hacking might be at play here.

I don’t they they should be illegal but heavily regulated- cap on interest rates, caps on any type fees or deductions for the loan, requirements to disclose payment structures in “plain english,”(some states already require this) etc. At a certain point, you can’t protect people from bad decisions.

I’ll note that the House just turned over the contents of the “investigation” it performed when Republicans were in charge. While not as comprehensive as we’d like (that’s an understatement), it does give more fuel/evidence.  So, I can’t see how it could be winding down with the House information and the piles of…

I was going to add that to my comment- that those f*ckers probably did the same or worse and they probably wouldn’t resign.

Then what? We decide to resort to Republican style tribalism, ends justify the means, etc? It’s tempting, given how sh*tty Republicans have become, but I don’t want to stoop that low.  It’s a…

Way it fuck it up for Democrats, Virginia. Looks like a Republican will be the Governor, if we want to keep our integrity.

1. It’s been lower at other times. It was 16.4% at it highest point during Obama’s presidency and 7.9%, when it ended. Trump (if we want to argue that presidents are responsible for the economy) brought it down 1% in two years.
2. Despite the new law, bipartisan critics in Congress say it has more often been used to…

You forget the alternate Fox news universe where Nazism was leftist movement, nearly identical to communism, that promoted homosexuality, progressiveness, etc. It was only successful because Jews gave up their guns.

I agree that admitting you’re struggling(?) with racism is better, but how does that impact your life/career?

If you told your boss that you sometimes have racist thoughts, but don’t act on them, and are trying to change your mindset, would they be proud of you? No, they’d fire you for being honest about what 75%+ of…

We have a mixed economy where we have largely a market economy, but with regulations and social programs. Most other first world countries are further along the socialism spectrum (excl. China and India), with single payer/uhc/highly regulated health care, larger pension programs, greater subsidies for education, and…

So an English and Italian person are going to teach us about the perils of Socialism?

So the essential question is should a person’s inability to speak english be a factor in determining whether they can collect disability, since their job prospects are reduced because they can’t speak english.

For some context, here is a summary of some of the predictions by climate scientists on temperature rise.

I get it if you wrote a random paper in college because you just read fountainhead.  But having a consistent body of work that’s essentially some combination of trolling or trying to be provocative without having much of a point is great to get you elected as a Republican, but not good qualification to be a judge. …

Lucky for the rest of us, Fox’s only play so far is shrieking “socialism!” and frantically looking around as they slide their gold bars just off-screen.

Look at Joe’s response to those. Instead of Joe R just admitting he got duped, he switches to how’s it’s just for discussion, food for thought, etc.