He does, if they’re flying military. He’s the Commander-in-Chief, and there’s ample precedent (going back at least 120 years) that he can order the military to do just about whatever he wants, and Congress has very limited means to stop him.

Technically, this is a government function, which he financed personally.

Actually, two pleaded guilty to tax fraud and bank fraud (Manafort and Gates), and two to lying to the FBI (Papa-whatever-the-fuck-his-name-is and Flynn).

They’ll get paid. It’s highly unlikely anyone will lose any income over this shutdown.  If Congress doesn’t appropriate funds for back pay during the shutdown, it’ll be the first time they haven’t.

Hell, if I had the money to buy it, I’d find a use for it.

Get married.  Worked for my wife.

Democrats don’t want anything for the $5B. They just want to make sure Trump caves. Likewise, Trump doesn’t care about the wall so much as bending Pelosi and Schumer to his will.

They call it "The Trump."

You magnificent bastard...

Well...not quite. “If so-and-so didn’t want to hurt anyone, they wouldn’t have cheated” attributes a measure of ability to judge risk-reward over time frame longer than “immediately in front of your face,” which is surprisingly not a very common ability these days. “I don’t want to hurt anyone” is easily an attitude…

It would still be well within the Earth’s magnetic field. That doesn’t become a meaningful factor until you get several thousand miles up.

Don’t think that counts as rooting for injury, as there’s nothing there to really get hurt.

The timeline alludes to an important point: “campus police” are not police. They are not law enforcement. They are university employees, who work for the university, not the public. In particular, they have no authority off campus.

Death is our ongoing, prevalent companion.

Sometimes. Sometimes not. Restaurant I once worked at, we had to get very strict about honoring coupons to the letter, because people started abusing the privilege. “But you took an expired coupon last week!” “Yes, but that was three days’ expired. This one is from three years ago.”

I stopped at “Baltimore Orioles game.” You went to an Orioles game, and you’re complaining about the ticketing?

I know Marines who could scale it.

Yes, child sex trafficking is a thing, and this is neither the first nor the best evidence I’ve seen that it’s a protected thing among the rich and powerful.

One key point being that VAWA is primarily a funding vehicle providing grants for local programs and shelters. So this impacts future grants...but grants already awarded aren’t affected. Plus, DoJ’s contingency plan explicitly keeps the Office on Violence Against Women operational as long as they have money left over…

All the ones I know hate it, because it adds to their administrative burden and takes away time from seeing patients, which is what they actually went in to medicine for.