The White House should respond by providing links to state and federal representatives if they want the law changed.

And I would respond that state and federal representatives aren't leaders of the Democratic Party - Obama is. The president is also free to submit any legislation he wants to Congress, and then use the bully pulpit - only held by the sitting president - to urge it's passing.

Or if he wants to play hardball, threaten Congress that he'll start vetoing legislation until he gives in or they do. It's one of the ways Bush pushed telecom immunity through Congress when said immunity was deeply unpopular with the public.

That is a very simplistic view of a very complex subject.

Just because you want to dismiss it out of hand doesn't mean it's inaccurate.

That would mean that anything that is produced out of state would be federally regulated and that is completely untrue.

The trading of said goods can be regulated by the feds, that's the entire purpose of the Commerce Clause. To prevent states from screwing around blocking trade across state lines for petty protectionist reasons....like states blocking direct sales of cars to consumers.

For example California has certain emission standards and they are applied to all vehicles sold in California.

Standards set by California, not the feds. And no, that's not a petty protectionist reason, but a technical one. Still, the feds could step in and tell California that they'll take their smog and like it - but they've chosen not to.

Seeings as where just about any politician that mentions the free market gets dismissed by the mass media and folks like you as fringe and dangerous? I don't know, where do you expect them to be.

This isn't hard...the average elected Republican no more gives a shit about having a "free market" than he cares about banning abortion - it's the same hot air for the base. You can see this any time the Free Market Fairy starts to pose a danger to corporate profits, as Republicans rush to pass laws to support the monied interests that own the party.

And no, I don't expect your average Democratic governor to be better on this issue than Chris Christie, who moved to protect the fiefdoms of the dealers. They are bought as well, but at least they don't spend the rest of their time beating their chests about how much they love the Free Market Fairy.

Minis and the iTrash aren't a substitute for a rack mounted server with redundant power supplies. Apple, it would be couch money for you to continue this product as well as a 17" laptop line, even if they aren't big sellers.

This is a non-story, and not the first time a woman has wielded Mjolnir.

Talk about falling out of the boat but managing to miss the water...other people picking up the hammer is a non sequitur. It's like saying the new and improved Patty Parker is no big thang because other people have used web shooters and other women have had spider costumes.

tl;dr WHOOSH

Butthurt denialist is butthurt.

Things like requiring plugging in an iphone to a PC to turn off the find my iphone feature with iOS 7 as an example

Not so.

Settings > Privacy > Location Services > Find My iPhone

Only the Apple account password is needed, not a computer.

You don't think it would cost a pretty penny to replace our power infrastructure?

You don't think power structures need replacing, even if you stuck with coal power entirely?

See, that's where the AGW crowd deliberately misunderstands the Anti-AGW crowd.

Mirror, mirror, on the wall....

No one argues that solar power isn't cleaner than hydrocarbon - but it's unreliable and costs 3 times as much.

It's both reliable and cost competitive, sorry. And that's even without discounting the massive subsidies given the fossil fuel industry. Or did you think economic domination of the gas stations of the world was free?

You'll just have someone come by and point out that comparing science to religion is total BS. But like deniers, you can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into.

It's because he wasted his public trust by not practicing what he preached

It's because you want to be WATB's and bitch about Gore, since Snopes debunked this wingnut crap five freaking years ago.

Get a new hobby, guys.

Every major country has big spy operations. The NSA is neither unique nor the first of its kind

No country on earth comes close to the reach, depth, or pervasiveness of the spying from the NSA. If the spy budget is like the Pentagon budget, the U.S. spends more than the rest of the world combined. How many spy satellites does Argentina have pointed at D.C.? How much of the world's fiber optic network goes through Iceland, as opposed to the United States? This is as nonsensical as saying the USAF and US Navy are matched by prop fighter planes in Bumfuckistan because they both have guns.

The NSA is entirely unique in spying on the electronic communications of every person on the planet.

It's not just global warming; the whole "Do as I say, not as I do" attitude is completely entrenched in self-styled "progressive" psyche. My observation is that their attitude is that they should dictate what others do because they genuinely think they're smarter than others.

Lazy tautology is lazy.

It's not a fallacy when the hater provides nothing objective other then 'its teh suxors.'

It's a fallacy when you're ignoring the reasons surrounding "its teh suxors". There was no exploding gas tank in the Pinto, just a bunch of Ford haters....

I've seen people complain that Microsoft doesn't innovate, doesn't try new things.

And I've now seen people excoriate MS for trying new things and trying to innovate.

You seem to be assuming that "innovative" and "good" are synonyms when it comes to products. A smartwatch powered by static electricity might be innovative, but it would be a shitty product if you had to rub it on your sweater just to see what time it is.

You neglect the primary reason for taking a plane down when there are bigger and softer targets available (shopping malls, theaters, huge lines at the airport) - the psychological impact.

The problem with that line of reasoning is that Boston was plenty impacted by a couple of pressure cookers, and D.C. was in a panic years before that from two guys with rifles. And just about any mass school shooting. So yeah, a few suicide bombers with simultaneous detonations would have a "psychological impact".