Plot-holes.

That the President does not and should not “take over” the economy, and the possibility of people like Trump being in office is a good reason we shouldn’t trust even well-intentioned Presidents to do otherwise?

And The Slants get to keep their band name. Is that part of an arch-conservative plot?

Reporting on the comment section. What a job.

Yep. Adam Smith in the Wealth of Nations suggests that a free market system requires infrastructure (roads), a functioning legal and court system, etc. to be successful. This is one of the biggest shortcomings in the anti-capitalist arguments I see around here, IMO, which often lambaste small government/free market…

Yeah, lets just ignore the whole “control of production and distribution of goods” part of the very definition of socialism, but hey, definitions don’t matter, right?

Gosh, if only there were historical examples of how radical government-administered redistribution impacted an economy and the people living within it.

So fines don’t count as sanctions? You’re ONLY considering jail-time as a sanction? Because I just gave you a few examples of people who were fined for criticizing Islam.

After five years we have no strategy in possession. No link play. No understanding of where players should be in the offensive half. We have absolutely no system.

Kljestan not starting over Jones made ZERO FUCKING SENSE.

I totally agree that we need more diversity in media, and I totally agree that diversity should mean more than race and gender.

But I disagree about the misguidedness of ideological diversity. If you’re a news organization who wants to inform the entire electorate, your newsroom can’t be 100% left of the political…

You’ve done a great job here pointing out a phenomenon known as “point-and-laugh liberalism.” Maybe if the Democrats adopted the a policy of unconditional respect, one that was advocated by... what’s his name.... the old white guy from Vermont, we wouldn’t be staring at this goddamn travesty. These people are…

With all due respect, I don’t think you’re giving this country the credit it deserves.

I saw it live, on the east coast, how about you?

Conservatives need to keep their economic stances but dial back juuuust a bit on the archaic, hardcore Christian-right social stances to have a prayer in the GE. Pence is not exactly that guy... hence the rise of Rubio, McMullin and, hopefully in 2020, Ben Sasse.

Here we have an article about monopsony where the author doesn’t bother to define the term and probably doesn’t know what the term means. It means the market has one *buyer* for a particular good, the counterpart of “monopoly” where there is one *seller* for a particular good. (It is not “monopoly-lite, when one…