330 million people is a few hundred million stake holders too many to have any real chance of keeping everyone generally satisfied. People would probably be a lot happier if all of their governance came from much, much closer to home than it does.

Your ROI calculations seem to be omitting significant expenses associated with home ownership and the buying/selling transactions. Presumably you are maintaining these properties. Presumably you are insuring these properties. Presumably, being relatively early in the amortization schedule, you’re spending a lot of…

What is the opportunity cost of sacrificing current liquidity in order to borrow less?

It’s impossible to sort through or even identify all the biases a claimant may or may not have. As such, we’re supposed to evaluate the claim on its own merits and it should live or die according to those merits. You’re sorta describing an ad hominem and implying that the article itself uses the argumentum ad…

Out of state? Sure. In-state? Care to provide an example?

It seems like you’re shooting the messenger instead of earnestly evaluating the claim being made. It doesn’t matter that the guy is a CEO of a mortgage company if what he’s saying is accurate.

Since when do state school satellite campuses cost 49k/year?

The three SCOTUS picks that Trump may end up making are by and large the most important things that could have come out of 2016's election. Those three picks will continue to have resonance in American politics for decades.

Gun control is dead for a generation. There is likely some conservative group raising money and preparing a case to eventually get to SCOTUS that will inevitably result in an even more generous interpretation of “the right to keep and bear arms” [stuff SCOTUS says doesn’t matter] “shall not be infringed”.

Yep. The in custody part gave it away for me too.

The emergency was nearly two years ago.

You have to realize that a lot of the people that write for this site and comment on this site clearly did not understand that this is what was obviously going to happen.

Just because you can show your ass and engage in masturbatory, ultimately meaningless, political displays doesn’t mean you should.

The game was over nearly two years ago when certain people threw a tantrum over the fact that free college and healthcare weren’t on the table and completely ignored the fact that the ground that they were standing on was.

If I had a penny for every time I typed “SCOTUS will be the most important result of this election” leading up to Nov 2016 I’d be making arrangements to take my fortune, hop on my G6, and emigrate.

Fucked is the appropriate response. RBG’s impending retirement isn’t helping the situation either.

Most people don’t know what they want until they see it. It’s up to the candidates to show people interesting things that they might want.

Hispanic woman wins race in majority minority district. White progressives jump at the opportunity to claim it as a victory for progressivism rather than what it is; minorities voting for someone that should have a better grasp of their experience than the old white guy. White progressives, feeling baselessly…