Mark Twain was from Missouri, not MIssissippi.

Have you looked at the rules involved in net neutrality? I guarantee you it will be a book, not a one-liner.

Accusing Republicans of being idiots is standard operating procedure for all liberals; it has nothing to do with Palin. They exaggerate Republican mis-statements and even true statements (Russia is visibile from Alaska), while ignoring similar statements by Democrats (e.g., Obama and Biden). Private jets and designer clothes? Are you under the impression that Palin is rich? She may be now, after publishing two books, but she worked her way through college -- unlike Obama, Kerry, Gore, etc. She has no privileged background.

When we get a "normal person" running for national office (Sarah Palin), she gets ripped to shreds for being plebeian.

How in the world did his secretary pay 30% in taxes? Even if she's single with no kids, her total income tax would be significantly less than that. (Her marginal rate might be 30%, but that wouldn't count deductions and exemptions.) The only way you could get it up to 30% would be if you included other taxes -- FICA, Medicare, real estate, sales taxes, and so forth -- but Buffett had to pay those himself, and was surely not including them in his 17.7% rate. True, he doesn't pay FICA for income over some small amount ($80,000?), but that is because we maintain the fiction that FICA is a sort of savings account, and we don't give benefits for earnings over that amount. (Not that I agree that it works that way, but that is the justification for it -- if someone wants to argue for a reduction of the FICA tax, I'll be all for it.) One might also point out that the government could tax Warren Buffett at a 90% rate and he would still be fabulously wealthy. That's not true for people making $250,000, which seems to be the magical point when one becomes classified as rich these days. How about a higher tax rate for people making over $1 billion per year? I'm not necessarily in favour of it, but at least they would be in a position to afford it.

How inhumane, deporting the poor man! This is just like those fascists in Arizona who want to send undocumented immigrants back to Mexico.

I thought that at first. In fact, however, I constantly find a mouse cord getting stuck on something, so that I have to pull the cord out to move the mouse properly. Plus, I really haven't had any problems with cordless mice.

>If the speed limit is 50, it was set there for a reason. For a reason, but perhaps not a good reason. In the example you give, there might very well be a good reason why the speed limit is 55, but elsewhere it could be something like fuel efficiency.