In the Clinton case, the courts found that the President does not enjoy immunity for civil issues that occur outside his Presidency (either before he took office or during his tenure but unrelated to his office). Based on that, it is likely that the President cannot be indicted for utilizing a power he has the…

There is no such thing as “automatic jail time” though. It would be a violation of a citizen’s constitutional right to due process. Being criminally charged with contempt of congress has to go through the normal federal process just like any other federal criminal charge, and if the Federal Attorney (who reports to…

Why would it change anything? Anyone who gave a fair reading to the report already concluded that Muller only refused to conclude that Trump committed obstruction of justice in the report because he could not indict the President.

Yup, Thomas Friedman won three Pulitzer Prizes by being shitty at his job. It’s too bad they don’t give out prestigious journalism awards for shit-posting (like an Ig Nobel Prize or a Razzie Award of journalism) because this article would be a prime contender.

I went to Fort Benning for basic training. We landed in Atlanta, which is full of people with thick, barely understandable southern accents. Then I actually got out to the backwoods of Georgia where Ft. Benning was and interacted with some of the locals. It went from Foghorn Leghorn in Atlanta to Boomhauer out at…

Because the President of the United States is not a member of congress. 

You cherry-picked a single year when white supremacist attacks were unusually high and Islamic extremist attacks were unusually low. In 2016, there were over 50 deaths from Islamist domestic terrorism and 0 from white supremacist terrorism. Neither year is really representative of the entire previous decade. Both…

Tire inflation is measured in pressure and pressure is defined as force/area, so tire pressure will literally tell you how much surface area you have in contact with the road. For instance, if you have tires filled to 100 psi and you and your bike weigh 200 lbs, then you’ll have an average of 2 square inches of rubber…

Sometimes white nationalists are included with right wing extremists, since there is a lot of overlap in ideology. Islamic extremists are always counted as a separate category, because the motivation and association is very different. 

That’s some nice cherry picking. I’m noticing the chart you are using conveniently stops in 2015 to avoid including the 66 people murdered by Islamic extremists in San Bernardino and Orlando in 2016.

Antifa is a small, disorganized far left group that mainly engages in violent street fights with the far right. Antifa and the groups they target are so far outside of mainstream Republican and Democratic ideology that they are likely to have zero consequence in the election.

Only if you count Islamic extremism as “right wing”. In the last decade, the most deaths in domestic terrorist attacks have been due to Islamic extremists followed by far-right / white nationalist ideology. 

White Supremacists do not commit the majority of terrorist attacks, but they do commit a lot. In the past decade, the vast majority of terrorist attacks have been committed by either right wing extremists or Islamic extremists. Since the fall of the Soviet Union, the number of leftist terrorist attacks in the United…

Chaining yourself to a redwood tree to stop it from being cut down is a protest.

California has not waived sovereign immunity for false imprisonment. They established a process for making false imprisonment claims. If you disagree with the outcome of that process, you will have a hard time holding the State accountable through the judicial system due to sovereign immunity.

The government is generally immune from financial responsibility for its actions. It is a pretty old legal concept called sovereign immunity. In order to have a case against the government, you usually need to prove malice or gross negligence on the part of the government. The government simply presenting their…

The problem with that reasoning is that the court’s interpretation of the first amendment has not changed. I don’t think you understand how the courts have defined imminent threat. An imminent threat of significant violence against your person, for instance, is one that fully justifies you shooting the person…

His book spends significant time talking about the importance of science and skepticism and the dangers of pseudoscience and demagoguery and he’s predicting that, unfortunately, society is headed in the wrong direction and what the consequences will be if we don’t do better at learning critical thinking. 

Advocating breaking the law is legal. Conspiring to break the law is illegal. It is a subtle but important distinction. It’s the difference between saying, for instance, “I think it is a Christian’s duty to kill abortion providers and those that do will be rewarded in the kingdom of heaven,” and saying, “it is a…

It was the last book he wrote before he died in the mid-90s. It is about being a good scientific skeptic. It is one of the best books on critical thinking out there.