Well the airlines are pretty up front about you needing to enter your name exactly as it appears on your ID. You can get away with a middle initial instead of a full middle name, but that’s the limit of the fudge factor. TSA is dumb and bureaucratic in a lot of cases, but they do run your info through namecheck…

Having been a terrorist (like, say, an IRA member) can actually be gotten around if you’re up front about it. Lying about having been a terrorist on a visa application makes you ineligible twice over. So yes, people actually do truthfully mark that box yes and do sometimes end up getting visas (after a VERY thorough…

It cost the baby’s family $160 (plus the ESTA fee of $14) and the U.S. taxpayer nothing. Consular affairs are entirely fee-funded (visas, passports, notarials, etc.). And the visa officer no doubt had a chuckle.

Bannon is evil, yes, but he only thinks he’s a genius. He’s thoroughly mediocre in every respect, except for his outstanding suckitude.

This position is so dumb I can’t even. I defy you to find ONE. SINGLE. AMERICAN who has funds sufficient for either health insurance OR an iPhone and chooses the iPhone.

Bingo.

MmmmmMMMM good! Love me some unlabeled-axis “charts” that somebody pulled directly out of his/her ass. Especially love the bit where Dwight David Goddamn Eisenhower is recalled as left-of-center and Clinton and Obama are both Actually Conservative®.

On the one hand, in a vacuum, it’d be good to take the victim’s wishes into account here. On the other hand, Polanski skating on a really goddamn heinous crime because his victim turned out to be a well-adjusted adult, no thanks to him, is unacceptable.

In the U.S. (and Commonwealth countries, I think—the U.K. for sure), the president sits at the center of the long table. Easier to see and hear everybody else. Of course, at this particular meeting, this arrangement did not stop Trump from wondering aloud “where’s Rudy?” and looking about inquisitively. Rudy Giuliani…

So many orders!

It’s a fake, unless he had a time machine (or his phone runs on Pacific time). But you are dead on that it’s impossible to tell from content.

Our last Democratic president ordered Jackson off the $20 (well, the Treasury did, anyway). Harriet Tubman will replace him in 2020.

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Unless things turn around in a hurry, nobody who doesn’t have to suck up to Trumpites to keep their phony baloney jobs is going to do so. And things won’t turn around in a hurry. Not one person in government doesn’t see Trump for who he is. The large plurality can’t stand him, a small contingent loves him to death,…

Yes, thank you for that lovely insight which is entirely appropriate when the president is not fully dedicated to the dismantling of all constitutional order. I am frankly not worried about corporate lobbying right now. I am worried about the end of democracy, and right now states--mostly, but not exclusively blue…

TBH right now “favor(ing) state power over federal power” sounds extra tasty crispy.

Intent matters, dummy. If you say “synagogues cannot hold religious services,” that’s unconstitutional. If you say “no religious services may be held on Saturday” knowing full well that’s when Jews observe the Sabbath, that’s also unconstitutional. When you straight out say “no religious services may be held on…

There’s a ban. No visas may be issued (immigrant or nonimmigrant) nor may entry be granted to any national of the countries named. There is no vetting. Any national of those countries, even if they have and are using another country’s passport, is having their visa applications refused and visa interviews canceled.…

By way of comparison, the Cardinals dude who poked around in his old boss’s scouting notes got 46 months. Huzzah for justice!

AA now uses the same miles-for-dollars scheme that United and Delta do.