Where do you think the money for your "free" healthcare and other social programs comes from?

The strains of weed being sold today are very different than what was used even 50 years ago.

I gave the Nexus 7 a try just because I wanted more "choice", then found out that about a 3rd of the apps from google play were "not compatible with this device" and the app I wanted most, firefox with adblock, wouldn't let me browse more than a few pages without crashing to the desktop. Honestly, widgets are cool, but not enough to pull me away from a working product, so back to IOS I went.

So it's not freedom of speech you don't agree with, it's freedom of association?

So are you arguing that you should divorce Social Security benefits from what people pay in? Or would that be just for "rich" people? Under our current system if you make the "rich" pay in more and you'll have to pay them more too, and since they have better access to health care and tend to live healthier they tend to live longer and this will collect even more...

Yeah, why would there be much costs associated with regulating everything a person ever does from their first breath to their last!?!? Nope, that's gonna be super cheap! Haha At least fossil fuel producers have something to trade for my $$$, Al Gore wants me to pay just for the privilege of breathing...

I love it. Lawsuit regarding a stupid law in very liberal states and it's the republicans fault...

4 years? The Democrats had a majority in both houses for more than half of the last 4 years including a super majority in the Senate...

You forgot to use the word "Zionist" in your post. You should fix that.

It was always funded. It would really be interesting to know if the lines of embryonic stem cells that Bush funded research were involved in these experiments . I'd be willing to bet that even if this research wasn't actually funded during the Bush years it built on embryonic stem cell research that was...

more motivated students get higher grades. News at 11.

All of the examples you give are closer to a razor and blade business model I think.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freebie_marketing

You mean like that ultraviolent Switzerland?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_politics_in_Switzerland

There's are rules against killing people too that clearly didn't prevent this tragedy, but you think a rule against carrying a gun into the building would have made this guy turn around and walk away???

If only there were powerful unions looking out for the best interests of teachers...

By and large teachers get what they fight for. That they spend their time/resources fighting to keep administrations from firing the incompetent is on them.

It certainly isn't a lack of funding holding teachers in the US back... http://mat.usc.edu/u-s-education-versus-the-world-infographic/