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The NFL normally plays commercials during the national anthem and, to the best of my knowledge, never or rarely covered any players kneeling or sitting on the bench until the President made it a political issue.

I am a veteran and a 49ers fan who thought that Kaepernick’s protest was disrespectful. I have not been watching as much football lately, but it has nothing to do with whether people kneel during the national anthem.

I agree it is a concern. I am more concerned with how the current President would respond in an actual crisis as opposed to just unilaterally ordering a nuclear attack that everyone around him would likely agree was unwarranted.

The US’s policy is to only use nuclear weapons in response to a WMD attack; however, it is know that during the Cold War at least, the US had an unpublicized policy of advising the launching of a nuclear first-strike if a Soviet attack seemed imminent, to ensure that we were actually able to get off the bulk of our…

Well, there is also the oath that all federal employees, including military officers, to obey the constitution. The constitution requires congressional approval to levy war. While congress has abdicated some of their power to the President in various bills they have passed, there is a pretty strong case to make that…

Yes, but it is also a feature that the President doesn’t have a big red button that just launches the nukes. The order has to go through the military chain of command and anyone from the top of the cabinet to a just-commissioned Air Force officer in a bunker in Montana can shut down a nuclear launch.

Distance is an arbitrary measurement that is defined in physics by an arbitrary quantity. The meter, for instance, was originally a mathematical abstraction of an ellipsoid (which is a mathematical, not a scientific construct) to a physical measurement of the earth’s surface. It is currently defined by the number of…

Criticizing intelligence for being “subjective” is as meaningless as criticizing a meter or a parsec for being “subjective”. Like many things in science, intelligence is what scientists define it to be. Scientists create definitions to be useful. IQ is defined as an indirect measurement of intelligence because it is a…

It’s hard to say what someone’s IQ is without examining them. I think Trump is probably smarter than a lot of liberals give him credit for, but I doubt he has a high IQ.

If correlation is not a valid basis for concluding causation, then you have to throw out pretty much all science, because pretty much everything in modern science is established through statistical correlation tests of some sort.

IQ is not actually a measure of intelligence, at least not directly. Rather it is a comparative measure of performance at tasks that are thought to be highly correlative of intelligence. Often in science we cannot measure something directly, so we measure a correlative factor. Intelligence is even trickier because the…

I would probably like it better if it were not Star Trek. We’ve seen this all done much better on DS9 with a cast that was true to the ideals of exploration, diplomacy, and only reluctantly soldiers. Add to it some really confusing character development, plot points, technobable and science fiction magic that make…

California, for all its nonsense, at least prohibits local governments from regulating firearms.

The 10th amendment reserves all rights for the States, not the Federal government, except in the cases where the Constitution specifies federal authority.

Can you point out a federal court case that supports your claim? The first amendment specifically deals with the government. Most restrictions on employer activity come from local, state, and federal law, not the Bill of Rights.

The way you are phrasing your statement is misleading. It is true that K-12 schools have more leeway to restrict expression than say, the county Sheriff does. It is absolutely untrue that students do not have the same fundamental right to free expression at public schools as they do everywhere.

This is not a public school. The first amendment only applies to the government and its institutions.

As per the federal court rulings on the Pledge of Allegiance, that is likely correct, although that involved a religious component. Public schools largely have to respect student’s right to freedom of expression.

Unless your destination is on top of a big hill, you can mostly avoid steep inclines if you want. There are some popular tourist spots though like Chinatown and Lombard Street where you are going to have to face some hills regardless of how you get there.