It’s almost as if we’ve let the Executive branch have too much power over the years in the name of expedience.

No because they’ll send their men with guns eventually if you persist in not giving them their fair share. And those people are essential workers, so they still show up for work regardless.

Sure does make it a lot more difficult for your starving people to rise up against the military you pay directly with the nationalized petro-dollars you control.

Those Democrats that lost didn’t lose to someone left of them. More people would do well not to forget that.

In the sense that most of the other nations that are as advanced as us are more racially homogeneous, or at least have been historically, no. Japan doesn’t have this issue or at least it isn’t as visible, is because they are 90+% racially the same. America is really the first democracy to significantly allow people…

The best answer anyone can ever give on a topic they don’t know much about is “I don’t know.” The stuff that you excerpted to try and make it seem like he’s a wishy washy know-nothing makes me more likely to vote for him in a Presidential election, not less. Smart people who aren’t informed on a topic admit it and…

So your suggestion is essentially to keep the pressure on and wait him out? Again, I’m not in favor of anyone unilaterally invading, but that sounds like there will be a whole lot of suffering in the mean time, and I’m just not sure that it will be less suffering than if an international coalition goes in and either…

Agencies already work together every day: Local agencies coordinate with State agencies who coordinate with Federal agencies, and every combination in between. Like, task forces are a thing. Everybody LOVES a task force. With the technology at our disposal today, J. Edgar’s G-men are an antiquated redundancy, as are…

I’m not in favor of an American invasion of Venezuela either, but with the Venzuelan people effectively unable to rise up and depose Maduro, do you truly believe that international pressure short of military action can force him to give up power? Why would he? So long as he is able to keep the military paid and fed,…

Same as the LIGMA.

Why? For Federal laws that aren’t redundant, empower state and local law enforcement to enforce those laws. They can cooperate with other agencies as necessary. This isn’t the 30's and we aren’t dealing with bootlegging.

Honestly, after seeing what has happened to other professors in the news over the last year or two, you’re lucky that a bunch of feminist intersectionalists haven’t demanded you be fired for daring to point out that there’s any differences between the sexes.

They hate you because you’re right. There’s a huge difference between calling people out for being bigots, and telling someone that gesticulating with their hands while talking is a microaggression (which is a real thing that happened) and then laughing when that person forces themselves to not talk with their hands.

This whole comments section is a master’s class in people finding things to be offended about. And if you don’t think there’s a cultural movement to find things to be offended about, you’re either not paying attention, or you’re part of the problem.

Someone’s going to be offended that you said this.

Frankly, the more unknown at this point, the better. All of the so-called front runners that have been in the spotlight the last two years or, in some cases, decades, all have weaknesses that Trump’s dumb angry political machine can exploit. A candidate that has been putting in solid grunt work on the ground for years…

Yeah you’re right, it’s totally stupid to think maybe we don’t need certain parts of the Federal government that are beholden to getting and spending billions of dollars on... what, exactly?

I’m gonna be fascinated to see how this article ages over the next couple of years.

Good, the best thing that can happen to the American people over the long term is the realization that all this shit we think we need the government to do, there’s other ways of getting it done. Or, maybe some of these things don’t actually need to be done! Maybe this causes the TSA to become non-functional so we go…

Except banning drugs has been a colossal failure that has contributed to violence possibly more than any other single cause. If reducing violence was the goal, banning drugs is the absolute worst decision we ever made in that regard. If the war on drugs is your example of why we should ban guns, you might’ve picked…