Balderdash!

UK newspapers seem to consistently have high quality coverage of issues on this side of the pond.

http://whatreallyhappened.com/...

"But it's definitely helping far more than it's hurting."

Not around here ... feed-in-tarriff subsidies grossly penalize normal tax & rate-payers.

No, it's written by Matt Asay ... the Bennett Haselton of tech journalism.

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"The impartial answer is that all deliberate killing is murder or that none is.."

That "impartial answer" is not only not accepted in military circles, but also neither in civilian law. There is a huge spectrum. "murder" is *unlawful* deliberate killing, which for example deliberate killing in self-defence isn't.

Your first example is stretching the concept beyond the breaking point, and your others are only a little better.

That's a mildly interesting corner case ... war between belligerents being declared where?

"U.S murdered"

No. Killing the enemy is not murder.

... just waiting for someone to quote Team America.

... not really - under the GP's rules, you'd be out of line with that.

"The 'invisible hand' (rich land owners with huge water rights in this case)..."

Sorry, you're misusing terminology. The "invisible hand" is the effect of the market - of people freely competing to efficiently allocate resources between alternative uses. When you instead refer to "owners with huge water rights", you're outside the market: "water rights" are a government largesse, not a market.

"I'm for just straight up taxing everything. ... Then you can use the revenue generated to balance the budget, institute another medicare expansion, etc..."

tax & spend - the environment is just an excuse

You're victim-blaming here. The invisible hand barely had a hand in what's been happening.