matthewscanlon--disqus
Matt Scanlon
matthewscanlon--disqus

Jaqen H'ghar: "My final test is a brutal battle of wits, and only one student survives."

Defense procurement is wildly bloated and inefficient, thanks to congressional earmarking and a preference among congress-critters for "fancy" rather than "functional".

Google Port Arthur massacre.

Quoting George Galloway is no way to go through life.

I'm not convinced even you know what point you're trying to make.

Nonsense. It's far right intransigence that's prevented a comprehensive immigration solution for a generation now. It wasn't Democrats that killed George W. Bush's immigration bill in 2006.

Terrorism?

Weren't restrictions on commercial fertilizer like Tim McVeigh used put in place after the Alfred Murrow building bombing?

Scene: the Oval Office, January 21, 2017.

What if I don't necessarily want to cut military spending, but rather improve the military procurement process, resulting in less federal dollars spent?

"And that's why your no-good kids are running wild!" (Points at South Korea reading a book in the corner.)

Good sleuthing.

I mean, you could also try appealing to Latino voters: Catholic, strong family values, high entrepreneurial rate.

103 people shot in a building that holds about 800. That's a 13% causality rate. Omar Mateen had training and a sophisticated plan. It could very well be Mateen spent lots of time at the firing range, but I also wouldn't be the least bit surprised to learn he made his way to Syria recently.

I find it astonishing the self-flagellation masquerading as insight so common in today's culture.

What do you think was the shooter's motivation?

There are literally 50 bodies in the morgue because of this non-existent problem.

Ok then, "Radical Islam" - what the hell does that tell me? Ayaan Hirshi Ali - if she were the pope of Islam, her interpretation would be radical, would it not? My problem with "Radical Islam" and "Islamic extremist" is it covers everything and nothing at the same time. I prefer "Bin Ladenism".

I always wanted to be sophisticated.

The house of Saud doesn't really have a coherent political ideology other than ferraris and palaces are awesome. Wahhabism would be the most precise term I'm aware of.