The trend was steadily increasing before the 1994 crime bill due to the war on drugs. As you can see from the chart, 1994 does not represent and sort of discontinuity.

I live in the center of a verified zika neighborhood, and it doesn’t get cold enough to kill mosquitoes here. We are at 70+ degrees in January.

“So this is our dystopia, one created by a group of deeply misguided individuals intent only on determining that the outcome of a pregnancy is birth, no matter the costs.”

I think their rationale is “how fair is it that you can try the case in the media, and we can’t respond?”

“The crowd was terrible”

“(two of whom are named MacKenzie)”

“Compare the media treatment of both.”

“So basically the DV accusations are true.”

I love the Peruvian bands that work the subway.

Absolutely.

Let’s be honest, though; the South is overrepresented in Congress in relation to its population, giving it disproportionate power, and tends to use that power in not-so-good ways. As a New Yorker you don’t think a lot of people in the South denigrate people like me?

Immanuel Kant would disagree with you.

Because the Puerto Ricans want to stay in the US and the US mildly benefits from PR being American soil so doesn’t kick them out.

Are you serious? The motorist who accidentally hit someone is worse than the person who took out a gun and tried to intentionally murder someone?

Yeah, she comes off as a jerk. Not terribly surprising, a very large number of athletes are jerks. She could have just let her victory do the talking for her.

My thoughts are we don’t have enough information to speculate with any degree of accuracy. I’m not sure how Depp’s attorneys would be trying to take advantage of her by not deposing her; maybe she’s trying to take advantage of them?

You are on meth, right? Hillary’s voting for the Iraq War is still a major point of criticism within the party and she is criticized still for it. That’s what lost her the 2008 election. More than a decade later her own supporters still criticize her for it.

There is no sane construction of authorizing the use of force into “voting for a war crime.”

Fortunately most of the revolutionary firebrands are internet tough guys/keyboard commandos who will shut their mouths and get with the program. The small minority who try to start a revolution can be violently suppressed.

“I sometimes feel like it’s difficult to be outspoken (Justin Trudeau) without being called out for patting your own back”