Sure, it is loads of money, but it also means long working hours,

Not always.

where telecommuting isn't usually an option

Only if management is stupid. My company has many, many people who earn squarely upper-middle class, and they almost never step foot in an office.

No. He was saying that if a door exists, there must be some way of opening it. If it's locked, then it must be unlockable.

In New Jersey, an acquaintance lost her driver's license because, after passing multiple breathalyzer tests in front of two cops, she refused to allow them to take her back to the station to be tested there. Being brought back to the station in a police car is de facto arrest, but somehow the judge didn't think this mattered and was perfectly happy to cause a mother who wasn't driving drunk and had a clean record to lose her license and her job.

So how do those who identify as "liberal" like Scalia now, I wonder?

He is firmly in the correct camp. I am not afraid of siding with Ginsberg, Sotomayor, and Kagan if they're correct. And they certainly are! There was no need for the search.

History dictates that Obama will declare "executive privilege" or some other nonsense. He has already done this for himself and his AG; the latter currently in contempt of an ineffective Congress which is unlikely to do anything about it. With a Democratic Senate, there will be no impeachment.

These are the facts, and I commend all of you who could read them before down-moderation.

I used to be a scientist like you, until I took a marshmallow in the eye.

The STATE government require you to have car insurance. You can avoid it by not driving a car, or by going to a state with lower or no requirements. Is there anywhere in the USA you can live without health insurance now? You are "taxed" for breathing.

Yes you will-- he'll be standing next to the President on his daily fundraising speech. What we never see are the thousands of people who can't afford their premiums for plans that don't actually cover anything until you've spent $50,000.

I feel that there's something wrong when a powerful lobby is fighting to make Hobby Lobby pay for abortions but doesn't mind people having to pay for their own prostheses.

These stats predate the collapse

Yes. These stats are useless. GM spun off the financing. They are profitable now, although like many manufacturers they probably aren't making money on every model line currently-- usually the ones that have been updated within the last model year or two.

Isn't that kind of like complaining that your softball or flag football league isn't allowed to play at Citizen's Bank Park or Lincoln Financial Field?

You've basically just made a "my dad can beat up your dad" argument. I'm leaving this dick-waving discussion.

I would expect that 50 years of one-party rule would show progress. No, clearly it is getting worse every day. So how many decades before you think it will get better? Maybe another 50 will do it? If what we're doing isn't working, just try more of it?

Maybe you should stop expecting people to congratulate you for being gay.

its the fact they have no zoning laws

Slashdot, why is this modded insightful? Really-- why? HOUSTON is notable for having no zoning laws. Apparently, the town of West doesn't either, because it appears to be the town with the exploding fertilizer plant that alen is referring to. Zoning is not generally the duty of the state, but of the local governments. Do you really want the state telling you how your town must be laid out? Why do you, as a citizen, want some bureaucrats far away making blind decisions instead of being able to go to a town meeting and actually influence the decisions?