The regulators have been involved all along. Measuring that by the volume of _new_ regulations is OTOH quite wrong. We don't pass new laws on murder every time someone gets killed.

... and cats & dogs living together. Devastating, I tell you.

"If the student defaults, the institution isn't on the hook."

Well sure, the institution has delivered what it agreed to. The loan was not from the institution but from a bank - or the feds, with their own perverse incentives.

"we should probably cut back on the for-profit college companies"

What, by outlawing them? No, even those people involved should be free to pursue their happiness.

How is any of this on topic: namely Harper's own actions?

"Include some actual evidence,"

Are you insinuating that the captured IRC etc. traffic on display there is faked?

"The only people making these claims are ..."

No.

Thank you for having children, and presumably propagating your common sense.

One wonders whether it's the "for-profit" nature of the institution, or its "lack of government subsidy" that puts it at relative risk.

"If Facebook has very low numbers of non-white applicants it suggests that the way they advertise jobs isn't very good"

Or it suggests that non-white applicants aren't very good at finding the advertisements. Or it suggests that there aren't that many non-white applicants available. Or it suggests ... a thousand more possibilities.

Well, er, the Republicans did not write or vote for the law ... so yeah, its failures (and successes, if any) are entirely on the D's.

"The act uses the term "the state", not "a state". "

Maybe elsewhere, but not in the context that was being litigated: "established by a State".

Hey! It's a cisgenderist! Can we burn xer?

... of purple prose.

The mere existence of servers on standby is not a problem, let alone a "massive" one.

What nobility ... what goodwill ... what a brave new progressive world.

... what, because the only legitimate alternative to state-subsidized internet access is "resignation from the social compact"? What about drawing a line a little closer to the "bare essentials", construed strictly?

"[...] is seen [...] is seen as so vital by some [...] it is hoped [...]"

Anonymous, unquantified strangers say so, so it must be right.