Computer skills are problem solving skills. Most people can find the power button. Computer skills are figuring out why the power button is not working, or figuring out how to set the computer to power on in the morning and off at night without user intervention.

The military does training in major metropolitan areas like LA, SF, and NY all the time. They usually will coordinate with local law enforcement if it is going to be disruptive, so they’re not going to land 5000 Marines in Lower Manhattan or Long Beach without working it out with the local government ahead of time,…

Obama’s first pick was a Nobel laureate in physics that many believed was overqualified. Hown the times are changing. Onext would think that you at least need a BA/BS in something like physics, chemistry, or nuclear engineering to be qualified to lead the DOE.

Common law in the US is that you are allowed to use reasonable and proportional force to defend yourself. For instance, if you reasonably believe you are likely to be seriously injured or killed, you can shoot or stab someone. If someone shoves you, you can shove them back. If someone punches or kicks you, you can…

Seinfeld is probably the best comedy show of the 1990s. Steve Bannon is not necessarily a “raging anti-Semite”. He is just okay enabling raging anti-Semites to gain personal power and profit. Come to think of it, that actually might be worse.

The electoral college was designed for the express purpose of undermining democracy because the people were not to be trusted. Electors are not constitutionally bound to vote for any particular candidate. It is his constitutional duty to vote for whomever he feels would be most fit, and if that is not Trump, he has…

Entitlement is not the provenance of one generation of Americans. I mean, old people complain that young people feel entitled to affordable education, but just try to take their social security and medicare away and they scream like big babies.

She was born in 1943, so not a Baby Boomer. They were born after the war ended up until around the mid 1960's.

Study history; we have come a long way, but we have a lot further to go.

If it makes you feel better, none of those things have any realistic chance of getting Clinton into office.

Only 1 out of 45 Delta Airline pilots is a drunken Neandrathal recently thawed from the Nordic glaciers. 98% of flights without the loss of all passengers and crew is pretty good.

That simply is not going to happen. As much as many Republicans despise Trump, they are not going to vote for Clinton. It is borderline-fantasy to imagine the dozens of electors needed to deny Trump an automatic victory will refuse to vote for him. It is absolute fantasy to believe that those Republican electors…

If enough Republican-pledged electors refuse to vote for Trump, the Congress gets to choose the President. Obviously that is a long-shot and they shall not be switching their protest vote to Hillary and congress may decide to vote for Trump in any case, but it is certainly a constitutional possibility that a…

Petraeus is a smart guy and would be a great pick for Secretary of State. The only problem is that he was convicted of mishandling classified information, and nominating him after such a conviction would send the wrong message regarding the importance of ethical behavior in government.

I hope that is real.

I happened to turn on CNN when this was happening and the whole thing just blew my mind.

Honestly, it seems like they are grasping at straws at this point. Yes, it is possible that electronic voting machine tallies can be changed, but anyone with a cursory understanding of how they work would also understand that to do this on such a massive scale (because it would have to be done on one or more of the…

I think most people who voted for him do not believe his racist statements are not wrong. They just overlooked them for other reasons.

1. The “power vacuum” was not “created entirely by the Obama administration. In fact, I would say that the Iraqi government should be shouldering most of the blame for that one since they wanted the Americans out but could not create or maintain an effective military on their own.

You are right about Obama but you are missing context. Historically, each new Presidential administration pushes executive power further. When this country was founded, Congress had to fund an army and authorize their use. Now we have a standing Army that can conduct significant military operations with no…