It’s that last step (“Therefore it can’t be...”) that isn’t based in the realm of logic. How does not being able to prevent one’s ability to do something take away fault? I have the ability to get in a car accident anytime I want, but that doesn’t mean that the fault can’t possible lie with the other driver (or in…

To be fair, isn’t everything Carson does kind of half-hearted?

Just repeating it doesn’t make it true.

Are you 13?

Men have the ability to not get someone pregnant if they don’t want to. It’s called a condom.

I really wish there was a non-sexist term for p*ssy. It would be so very useful.

Some of those people probably don’t actually exist. Sandra Allen James, Carolyn Moffet and Eileen Wellstone, for example, all appear to have originated in one single blog entry by “Capitol Hill Blue,” a website that is likely one guy with many sock puppets, and which has faked stories about CIA informants and…

What did the Lewinsky affair have to do with Whitewater?

The man is terrible, but the argument against the death penalty is about the nature of the state, not the nature of the crime.

I’m fine with him staying in through the final few primaries, but I agree, he needs to tone it down. I understand that he never considered the Democratic Party as anything more than a rental, but he shouldn’t be ripping up the floor boards as his lease expires.

If independents want to vote in the primary, they can change their registration to the party for which they want to vote. It’s not like there’s a fee or anything.

You’re not a lawyer, are you? No lawyer should ever be denigrated for taking a criminal defense case. Criminal defense lawyers protect our system as much as they protect their clients. If she volunteered for the case, then that’s even better, because it sounds like a difficult one.

Both are tax policy, so yeah the comparison is appropriate.

Does your keyboard/phone not have capital letters?

Except the penalty isn't set by the insurance company. That's a fixed percentage.

You don’t have to have health insurance to exist. You just pay a higher tax if you don’t have it (and make above a certain threshold). Exactly like the mortgage tax deduction. I rent, so I pay much higher taxes than someone who buys. Does that mean I am being forced to buy a house? The difference for me is actually…

Yes. The law provides for a two month break in between coverage. I've actually used that gap myself.

You won't get fined for just a month.

Are you kidding?! As a cancer survivor, how much do you think you’d have to pay for insurance without this law? Do you think that you'd get any insurance company to cover you at all?

The Obamacare tax penalty no more compels you to buy insurance than the mortgage deduction compels you to buy a house.