Simple question – how does a non-expert get to present ‘facts’ regarding a subject with which they are not familiar, and did someone else here have the opportunity to respond/debunk this nonsense…??

Agree… I don’t see an eyeroll there. I see her eating her lunch and alternating between eye contact with Boehner and watching the remainder of the ceremony.

Much ado about nothing, methinks.

Again, every discussion of marijuana legalization needs to framed relative to the legal status of alcohol and tobacco. This avoids the useless bickering on abstract pros/cons of marijuana use, and instead focuses on the need for equitable laws governing similar substances.

With that said, how does Frum handle his kids’ usage of alcohol and tobacco, since those substances are legal but regulated? How does he handle their recreational usage of salvia, which is legal and unregulated?

This can’t be true… because all the gun-a-ganda says that shooters only go where guns are not allowed. Surely the mere presence of an armed guard in Old Sacto would prevent any self-respecting criminal from doing badness, just as armed teachers will surely do.

The most troubling part of this…? “No one will ever know who is or is not armed”.

Seems to me that I should have some sort of right as a teacher to know which co-workers within my workplace are armed/not, and then I could use that information to make an informed decision regarding whether or not I continue working there.

$10 says that their statement will confirm their avid support for preventing future incidents of this type, but will warn against over-reactions which violate the 2nd Amendment (their misinterpreted version), and will then go on to focus on the need to fix our ‘broken’ mental health care services in this country… because, everyone should have guns, and it’s more feasible to cure mental illness than simply to remove someone’s access to guns.

It’s kind of amusing to see them deal with their disappointment, and with the realization that the US is simply not a ‘center-right’ country despite what their echo chamber tells them.

HOWEVER, some… maybe many… of these Beck-following nutters really feel like their country is being taken over by an internal enemy, and I’m concerned that they simply don’t have the faculties to cope with that in a rational manner. When I see these images of their despondence, I’m genuinely concerned about violence.

Man, I hope I’m wrong… and I hope that they can finally put country over party and help get things moving again.

The big question is why does it matter in practice? If Obama had been elected without winning the popular vote, what real disadvantages would he encounter vs. enjoying the popular vote support he has today..?

Agree. Whether a rehash or not, it’s clever and it resonates… and the assertion that this ‘pre-existing condition’ is covered by Obamacare is just a bonus!

Political genius.

I get the point here, but reading Romney’s quote demanding ‘empathy credit’ for providing children with health insurance just reminds me that we don’t need access to insurance… we need affordable health care that does not require mandatory insurance company involvement. We need healthcare reform, not healthcare insurance reform.

Well said… thanks.

Google the ACLU app… records video and audio, and immediately uploads it to ACLU servers to prevent it being ‘erased’.

Simple… because here in the US someone has to get rich off of sick people. Right now, that would be insurance companies.

Wow… the lack of logic here is astounding. He vetoed the law because it did not include provisions for doctor-prescribed dosage and frequency of use… because he is worried about ‘health dangers’ associated with unsupervised use of pot of varying potencies…. yet the only reason the potencies and quality of pot vary so much is because pot is illegal, unregulated, and grown/sold by illegal operations.

You want standardized potency to which doctors can prescribe recommended dosage? Legalize it and regulate it!!!