@SGTalon: It won't happen. The federal government might lower your taxes, but that will just mean your state will get less federal funds, thus your local taxes will go up and it's a wash. Plus your roads might get worse, which means more wear and tear on your car, so in the end, you actually might pay more than if…

@SGTalon: The funny thing about all these 'lower tax' arguments is that the taxes ARE lower now than they were during Bush, but nobody seems to know that. Also, many companies pay almost no taxes at all after all the deductions they have, so new tax breaks won't do a thing to help those companies. In fact, some…

@SnowSoul: The reason why the Republicans are slated to win is because Obama didn't go left ENOUGH for some people, and as a result, they won't show up to the ballot box. If you count the people who think Obama didn't do enough for the progressive movement in the equation, then he has a large percentage of the…

@MasterYong: I know, those fucking wall street tycoons... They should be beheaded, all of them!

@sdotbailey2: I thought that Libertarians were Republicans that wanted to smoke weed.

@CaptainJack: You mean so far to the left that it barely matched the Republican proposals of the past. I do suppose that is far left of where we were for 8 years, but that certainly isn't to the left of center. We haven't been to the left of center in this country since 1979. Reagan pushed us so far to the right in…

@SGTalon: I suppose you haven't met too many rape victims then? Or women who have concieved a baby with major health issues – you know - missing lungs, fused body parts, other abnormalities that if allowed to go to term, would result in both the babies and mothers death?...

@tasteskindasalty: Please provide specifics as to what you think is worse. I'm not baiting - I truly want to know what you think is worse in order to understand an opposing viewpoint.

@Kaspir: And who bears the burdon of paying for the road construction required after the company ships those widgets on the thousands of semi's around the country? Who pays to have the police show up 5 times a day to prevent shoplifting? Who pays for the fire protection on a Saturday morning when the faulty alarm…

@Neopolis: I'm not sure how this is taking sides? What components of this article are false? What components of the Republican agenda will affect science and technology positively? This article seems to reflect what the Republican party has been stating itself, so how this biased?

@William Hook: Not sure about this area in particular, but I know some of the test zones are off-bounds for the next several thousands of years.

@Intelli: Keep in mind that those were all made with the nukes underground. The area where the nuke went off turned instantly to molten glass causing the dirt from above to fall in causing the depression. An excellent book that discusses this is Aftermath: The Remnants of War: From Landmines to Chemical Warfare by…

So how do they measure it? Do they grab a 1 kilogram weight from the local gym and put it on a balance beam? :)

@NotAnEvilLobbyist: BTW - hearted for the amount of effort put into your argument...

@mikehart526: Firstly – thank you for your duty to our country.

@NotAnEvilLobbyist: Wow - +1 for your thoughtful analysis. One of the many things that I love about Gizmodo is the number of intelligent people here.

@mikehart526: You’re missing the point. War isn’t supposed to be easy. War is supposed to be hell. Otherwise, it’s much too easy to go into it without hesitation. Unfortunately, we’ve had too many armchair generals thinking the same way you do, which is why we’ve been bogged down in Iraq for so long and have…

@NotAnEvilLobbyist: I don’t disagree with much of your premise, but do want to reiterate that because of the arms race, the Soviets had much less money to spend on public infrastructure – the bread and coffee lines that stretched around the block DID indeed exist. The incursion into Afghanistan (and our support of…

@Facebook: Good one - I discussed this in Art History way back when I was in college. According to many historians, the meaning was misinterpreted in 1872 when Jean-Léon Gérôme released his famous Policce Verso painting [en.wikipedia.org]

@Gann: I'm not disagreeing that MAD was a partial cause of the US and USSR not attacking each other, but that doesn't mean that the UN and NATO didn't have their part as well. What I DO know is that as a result of the arms race, the USSR fell apart and now there are numerous nuclear weapons and energy sources that…