No. They are arguing that verifiable information is better then "Take my word for it" information.

In an ideal world, if the "take my word for it" information is true, then it should get tested, verified, and published somewhere so that it can move into the "verifiable" information category.

Thank you for this. That gave me an actually good out loud laugh.

Read The Federalists #10.

To sum it up. James Madison writes about the influence of Factions (aka Parties). He sees these as negative, but unavoidable. Thus, the he suggests a system in which smaller Factions have the ability to slow down and force larger Factions to discuss and debate issues.

Require Bills to have a Thesis statement. Any amendment that does not fall under the Thesis statement is not relevant.

Thousands of English Teachers do this with papers every day.

States can amend the U.S. Constitution without Congress getting to vote on the Amendment. 2/3 of the States call for a Constitutional Convention and then 3/4 of the States ratify it.

Amendments are often how compromise is reached. Without amendments, the Constitution would never have passed.

If the Founder Fathers wanted efficiency, they would not have created the federal system with a bicameral legislature. Stupid shit like this slowing down the process is there by design - to protect our rights. If government were efficient, they would just erode our rights faster.

So based of the responses I've received to my comment, it seems that women's events exist as sort of an "Affirmative Action" to increase women's representation at the Olympics. That being acknowledged, it seems the answer would be to only allow people who are genetically women (i.e. XX) to compete in the women's category and push everyone else into the Men's category.

Then you still have this issue of who qualifies as a women to compete in women's sports. I don't dislike women's competitions. It was merely a suggestion to eliminate the issue of who would play in what division.

Now, all of the people who are adamantly against it leave me with the feeling that women are inferior to men. This is certainly not a concept I had when I made my statement. Sure, I acknowledged that women will not excel against men in some sports (power lifting), but I thought that they would excel in others (Gymnastics). And at the end of the day (well Olympics) that Men would have medals in events better suited to men and women would have medals in events better suited to women.

is to remove "men's" and "women's" and just have events.

that people can start posting Internet Brain Imaging that says they are above average now too?

Obviously he's not going to college to be a lawyer.

Under Fascism all industry is not nationalized. Having some industries nationalized while some are not would be in the middle of "all hands off" and "all hands on".

I agree as far as a "complete package" (e.g. including both social and economic policies) Fascism is much closer to Communism then Capitalism. I was only pointing out that Economically, it was the in-between and equally as close to Laissez Faire Capitalism (complete hands off) as Communism (complete hands on).

You said Iran implements the UN Treaty on the Rights of the Child. Do they actually implement the UN Treaty on the Rights of the Child or did they just agree to it and never follow through?