You do realize that back in the 1960's that not one of the restaurants in the deep South would have gone bankrupt if they refused service to black people right. I mean I am not able to understand what the hell your problem is with guaranteeing civil rights. Please go and re-read the 14th amendment because you clearly are not able to get it through your head. Now if you want to prevent gays or blacks from entering your private residence that is perfectly fine because that is not a public establishment.

Yes, but that does not include the veterans benefits and health care when you say "defense spending".

Well then please explain why is Edward Snowden so respected while Julian Assange is hated here. (For the record I support what both of them did)

As Eisenhower warned in his farewell address, I hope this news means we have finally heeded his warning and are moving towards dismantling the military industrial complex. All of that money could be used to rebuild the crumbling infrastructure we have right here at home.

The stadium is like 6 months behind schedule and has suffered from numerous accidents including fire damage. I think this is the least of their troubles at the moment.

Yes, but have you ever heard of optical illusions. If you put the defeat text smaller than other surrounding text and banners and you use the persons name, then it is pretty hard to tell.

I think this is great. We just need to get Congress to not reauthorize the Patriot Act and then all this crap can finally get rolled back. Hopefully the TSA can be next.

Net neutrality means that you cannot discriminate against the packets that are being requested. For example, it does not matter I am shipping by UPS, I only pay based on the size and weight. What you are suggesting is that UPS be allowed to open my package and inspect the contents and then charge me based on the value of the contents. Now I bet you will say why don't you use another company, but there are only 3 shipping companies USPS, FedEx, and UPS. If UPS can get away with this practice, I am sure FedEx will do the same. Somehow you are not able to understand simple facts which conflict with your ideology.

It seems that every state legislature or local municipality is now entertaining the idea of limiting ISP competition and enabling packet discrimination. Can we please label all ISP's as common carriers and eliminate all of these monopoly protections.

I think this is just the first step. If more and more people adopt Waze maybe the police could focus on solving actual crimes instead of waiting around to catch people speeding or arresting people for drug violations.

I mean tax rates not total tax revenues. Obviously there is going to be more tax revenue if the economy expands. I am not sure what that proves. What I am claiming is that tax rates are near all-time lows right now. I think we should tax capital gains as regular income and use the extra money to fund some job training programs.

Mod parent up. He seems to have actually decent facts instead of general trends without explanations.

Wait a minute, if trickle down actually worked why did it not hold after the 8 year period you cited. You do realize that taxes are near all-time lows right now. By your logic, we should be drowning in jobs and wages should be skyrocketing. But of course that is not the case. What you seem to ignore is that productivity has skyrocketed since the 1980's but wages have largely remained stagnant.

The DC circuit court just recently struck the FCC ruling down. Previously the FCC ruling enforced net neutrality so no legislation was needed at the time.