Here are my ideas:

Rates are meaningless without defining the base. I could propose a tax system with a 1% rate that would bankrupt you or a 100% tax rate that would leave you paying nothing. It’s also likely that it’s going to have to be passed through budget reconciliation (to avoid needing votes from the Democrats in the Senate),…

Murray was shouted down and his host was physically attacked by protesters. The left’s apparent desire to silence all but agreeable voices is disconcerting in the extreme. As a MEMBER of the left, I find Deadspin and Gawker’s (or whatever it is now) sympathy for the worst aspects of the regressive brigade…

Are we supposed to be mad at or applaud ICE here? Seems like they did a pretty solid job, unless someone is trying to make the case that she had no idea that her husband was a drug dealer.

“An institution being shamed into disinviting you does NOT violate your RIGHT to free speech.”

Except if the topic is something else, would that empirical wrongness in one item taint all future work? It would be like saying Henry Ford’s Nazi leanings gave him no validity to speak on the implementation of mass productions in 1920's manufacturing. Sure, I wouldn’t invite him to talk about Nazism, but I would be…

The GOP only cares about deficits and debt when Dems are in power.

My outrage level is 0 on this one.

Is this story supposed to generate some sort of outrage?

This doesn’t seem like a super bad thing. “Wife of drug dealer deported” is not a thing I expect people to get up in arms about. She was here illegally, her husband was involved in a fairly significant, by the looks of it, drug trade. 30 lbs is a lot.

She had no idea her husband was a major coke smuggler/distributor?

So wait...let me get this straight.

well you’re ignoring the fact that Murray’s speech at Middlebury had nothing to do with his work on the Bell Curve.

That’s not the point. It doesn’t matter if he was “hurt” by it or not. Violent mobs should not be able to shut down events that they disagree with. Period. Full stop. The implications are far reaching.

Yeah, ok, you made a pithy comment and got called on it, at this point if you want to ignore the subject of the piece, or change the argument to “why should we care?” that’s fine, but that original comment doesn’t represent that intent.

So you’d be okay with right wing protesters using threats of violence and actual violence to shut down: (i) the Nation of Islam, (ii) Socialist speakers, (iii) members of the Weather Underground, (iv) Communist speakers, (v) Islamist speakers?

Wow. What a stupid, beside the point thing to say.

Just come out and say you support the ability of violent mobs to shut down events that they’ve decided they disapprove of.

The funny thing about people that favor censorship, is that they are often CONVINCED that their view on any particular issue is correct.

Left-wing critics of liberalism instead see the free-speech rights of the oppressed and the oppressors set in zero-sum conflict, so that the expansion of one inevitably comes at the cost of the other.