That’s actually not that egregious. Statutory rape is a strict liability offense-meaning you violate the law if you have sex with someone underage. There’s no intent required, so it’s no defense that it was an honest mistake, or that the minor consented.

But what promises would he want? He doesn’t (truthfully) care about any particular issues that he would want the nominee to pursue; he doesn’t want to collect debts that he can cash in during future political races. I believe he legitimately thinks that he should be the nominee, and if the Republican Party doesn’t…

The Tesla’s range is well within suited to the normal driving habits of Americans. According to a 2009 NHTS study, the average person travels 36.13 miles per day.

But he lives in New Jersey, so his life’s not all perfect.

Debris arriving at Reunion now is completely consistent with a crash of the SW coast of Australia. An airliner hitting the water at high speed produces millions of pieces of debris, so a few pieces staying close together (assuming the other reports of debris are accurate) isn’t unusual at all. Considering the speed…

How does any of this disprove the Inmarsat data?

It conclusively proves the plane went down in the SE Indian Ocean; the damage will indicate to some extent the exact nature of the crash; a study of ocean currents may narrow the search area; it alerts people in Reunion, Madagascar, and SE Australia and SW New Zealand to look out for further debris washing ashore.

Flip Connery/Craig and I’d agree. Lazenby couldn’t act his way out of a paper bag, but he had the good sense to just do a Connery impression instead. Moore was still playing The Saint.

Zero countries have gained nuclear weapons capabilities since Obama has been in office, which is better than the last two Presidents could manage.

Everyone does have a book in them, but in most cases that’s where it should stay.

If that’s the situation, I’m not sure why he would want to acknowledge it. Continuing to drive after knowing that you are susceptible to passing out would void just about any insurance policy (or at least serve as a reason to deny a claim) and open you up to liability if you get into any sort of accident.

NASA’s solution to overheating was genius. A water-based radiator would have been way too heavy, so instead they surrounded the batteries with wax. As they heated up, the wax would melt. When fully melted, the astronauts would stop and open up panels on top of the wax blocks exposing the wax to the atmosphere. Since…

Well, stick a rocket on the back and acceleration won’t be much of a problem.

Corey Booker, Kirsten Gillibrand, Deval Patrick, Michael Bennet, John Hickenlooper, Martin O’Malley, and the list goes on. There are good people out there, but the Clintons have been working hard the last few years to make sure they keep their heads down this campaign season.

The Comet went well past the prototype stage. Later generation Comets served as passenger planes through the 1970s and the military version, the Nimrod (not the best name), wasn’t retired until 2011.

Wouldn’t you be totally screwed if you lost an engine?

I think you’re overstating the problem here. A huge chunk of Nevada may be owned by the federal government, but then again a huge chunk of Nevada is uninhabited desert so no one’s really loosing out on anything. As for control, of course people feel like the federal government has more control than local elected…

No problem, I’m happy to educate. Mathews v. Eldridge stands for the general proposition that one must have a hearing before a government benefit is cut-off, and attending a public college would qualify under that rubric. My aside about contracts was merely to say that the colleges are bound by contract to hold a…

Procedural due process protections are not limited to criminal proceedings, they apply to all legal rights. First, for both private and public schools, the student-school relationship is fundamentally contractual, and those contracts provide for a hearing process before any expulsion. Secondly, for public schools the…