San Francisco:

I think that you should only ask if they’ve been using the equipment for 20+ minutes or they’re just sitting on it and not working out. It’s a subtle reminder that “hey, this is a bench press for everyone, not your own personal bench.”

He said “city”, not endless suburb. Florida has only one proper city. 

A semiautomatic shotgun, for all practical purposes, has similar abilities to put shots downrange as an AR-15. Equipped with a detachable magazine instead of a fixed magazine, a shotgun can be reloaded just as quickly. There are even shotguns manufactured based on the design of the AR-15 platform.

Most magazine-fed firearms (pistols, rifles, shotguns, et cetera) are capable of killing many unarmed people with one magazine.

So that’s not quite right. An AR-15 is specifically a Vietnam era rifle that is no longer in production but has been licensed to Colt (upon which Colt has based the modern versions of the M-16 and M-4 ).

I mean, states like California and the Federal Assault Weapons ban tried banning specific models of weapons like AK-47s and AR-15s, but such bans were never really effective for a lot of reasons.

I mean, it’s an investigation by the office of the inspector general, not a criminal investigation.

A first amendment challenge that specifically related to open  public broadcasts, like broadcast television and radio, not to closed and licenced broadcasts (like pay satellite) or privately owned networks like the internet or cable. 

Expanding its mandate would be a violation of the first amendment, so I fail to see the logic in Reagan unconstitutionally expanding its mandate.

The fairness doctrine really has nothing to do with Fox News. Firstly, Fox News is not a broadcast network, so the doctrine would not apply. Secondly, the doctrine did not require broadcasters to be “fair”. It just required that they devote some of their time to issues of public interest and that they present multiple…

Buy a two year old phone for a steep discount?

The motivations are pretty much the same but the actual legal reasoning and effect are quite a bit different. Before WWII, the US outright denied most Jewish asylum seekers and refugees the right to resettle, supposedly out of national security concerns (but mostly out of xenophobia), even if they had nowhere else to…

I swear officer; I’m not a drug dealer. You’ve got it all wrong!

Yup, California’s Supreme Court made it clear last year that Uber was committing wage theft and they did. . . . the same thing they did now. Their whole business model has been based on breaking the law and hoping to get away with it long enough to become profitable.

President Trump is pushing for a major crackdown on homeless camps in California, with aides discussing moving residents to government-backed facilities.

I mean, it’s been going on forever, typically with whomever the enemy du’jour is, and both sides do it.

Traditionally, Democratic administrations were more interventionist and Republicans were more isolationist, but starting in the Bush II era, I’m not sure that is accurate anymore.

I thought he was a neo-Conservative, which is someone that doesn’t fit nicely into the traditional liberal or conservative viewpoints:

What constitutes a high crime and misdemeanor is entirely up to congress. The founding fathers didn’t intend that they had to strictly follow the US Criminal Code.