Now, that is what political scientists call electoral salience.

Star Wars is basically fantasy set in a scifi universe. It makes Star Trek look like GATTACA. The science is pretty much all handwaving magic.

It is certainly possible, but I am skeptical that Pence is involved in anything illegal. Vice Presidents are usually not that involved in the day-to-day campaign intrigue. They are just there to be the President’s bulldog.

My intuition is that the political fallout from the existing FBI investigations under Comey would be far less severe than what is coming due to the incredibly inept way he has responded to the investigations.

It is hard to say how it all shakes out. It will almost certainly be far more destructive to his Presidency than simply cooperating with Muller. But it is hard to know how the political fallout is likely to manifest itself.

After Watergate, the law was changed to prevent the executive from firing special council (Clinton could not fire Ken Starr for instance; he had to be removed through impeachment just like other high executive branch officials). Unfortunately, that particular subdivision expired at the end of the 20th century, so the…

The nicest thing that I can think of to say about Roy Moore is that technically, what he is accused of does not meet the medical definition of pedophilia.

I am not sure what you are basing millions of allied forces dying on. There is no study of a war on the Korean peninsula where Korean and US troops would suffer anywhere near millions of deaths. There are not even close to 1 million US and Korean service-members in Korea and Japan.

What you call “reality” amounts to speculation. Most experts believe that North Korea’s actions are designed to preserve their regime (after all, look at what happened to Iraq when they gave up their WMDs and ballistic missiles) and that they are unlikely to provoke a war with South Korea, which they know would lead…

If they are violating the rules, engaged in unlawful acts, presenting a public health hazard, or otherwise behaving in a manner that is not aligned with the intended use of the library structure, then yes.

Try the SF or LA Main library and some of the branch libraries, even some university libraries on open campuses. There are homeless people looking at porn on the computers and beating off in front of little kids. They are bathing and washing clothes in the sinks and leaving needles in the stacks. Being a librarian…

Libraries are a nice way to download ebooks or magazines, but have you ever stepped foot inside one lately? They’re full of human waste and indigent people bathing in the latrine and passed out in the stacks. There are private libraries that are able to keep out the homeless, but they do cost money.

The chart shows your probability of paying more or less taxes now and in 10 years and shows the average of how much. You can still make deductions, so it takes into account the types of deductions that people actually take and how many people in your income bracket will see their taxes go up or down as a result.

Regarding that though, and forgive my ignorance, if you are protecting your personal assets through incorporation, shouldn’t you be paying both corporate taxes and personal income taxes? I guess I am not understanding how paying income taxes on money that ends up being moved out of the business and into your pocket is…

There are a few problems with this obstruction of justice theory.

You are absolutely wrong. Almost every crime involves intent. Men rea, or guilty mind, has to be proved beyond all reasonable doubt. Here is an abridged version the jury instructions for involuntary manslaughter in California:

If they were sufficiently negligent, then yes, in many cases, they probably should be. That is exactly what involuntary manslaughter is. A reasonable person, sound in mind and judgement, is likely to believe that their actions have a high probability of leading to life-threatening injury.

Initially I was confused by it, but it makes sense when you think about it. He picked up the gun unknowingly. It went off. None of that necessarily requires him to have knowing possession of a firearm. However, after it went off, he should have known it was a gun, yet he picked it up and threw it into the San…

My suspicion is that the jury reasoned that he had to knowingly possess the handgun to dispose of it. Even if it went off accidentally, he still picked it up afterwards to throw it into the bay.

Fun fact: shooting and killing a stranger on the street is not a sufficient condition for a crime to have occurred and accused criminals are assumed innocent until proved guilty beyond all reasonable doubt. If you accidentally shot someone without negligence, then you are not guilty of a crime. The jury’s verdict…