I've only voted 'R' or 'D' once in a presidential election. As for 2016, if Rand Paul gets the 'R' nomination I would probably vote for him. If he betrays the voters and deviates from his campaign rhetoric in the same ways that Bush and Obama did, I'll give up on 'R's and 'D's forever.

I think there was definitely something different about Ron Paul, despite the 'R' next to his name. I don't think he would have changed his message after being elected. That's probably why the MSM and the whole political establishment was against him. With Rand Paul, I'm not so sure, but I'm willing to take a chance.

A nation is defined by its borders and the people of that nation have every right to take actions which serve their collective best interests. If that means defending those borders and limiting the number of people who can cross over and take up residency, so be it.

Agree entirely. People should not criticize the "evil" corporations for behaving exactly the way we should expect them to behave. I like to make the analogy with a great white shark which pursues food the same way a corporation pursues profit. Emotionless and single minded of focus.

If you want to blame someone for economic conditions and the actions of corporations, blame the government! They are the ones that created the incentives for massive out-sourcing and off-shoring of jobs formerly based in the USA. Same with the H1B visa program. Blame the government which created it, not the corporations who pursue their singular mission by taking advantage of it. I could go on and on. Illegal immigration, tax policy, subsidies, bailouts, etc. etc.

For your safety and the safety of your fellow citizens, always film the police when they're interacting with the public.

I disagree. If anything, the press is minimizing the problem. For every case that gets media attention (white cops beating and killing black people) dozens, if not hundreds of incidents never make it out of local media markets and the online communities who follow this stuff.
Check out "Cop Block" and "Filming Cops". You'll find multiple incidents every single day.

"Look at how many coders Amerikan schools are creating and they don't meet our needs."

Bollocks. They don't meet your need for people who will work long hours for crap pay and few benefits.

Advertise a job with decent salary and benefits and you'll be able to find all of the American coders you want.

Give a government agency hundreds of billions of no-strings-attached taxpayer dollars over a span of many decades and they will develop a few useful things purely by random chance!

If they were accountable for earning a positive ROI on every R&D dollar, they would have gone bankrupt 100 times over.

Yay! Give a government agency annual(inflation adjusted) budgets in the hundreds of billions of dollars over the course of several decades and they will invent something useful by random chance.

You're seriously implying that the internet would not currently exist had it not been for government? I beg to differ.

What's wrong with treating education as a commercial enterprise?
Shouldn't the truly relevant metric, short term and long term, be customer satisfaction, with parents and students being the customers?
Get rid of government education entirely. Let the market differentiate the good schools and good teachers from the bad. There is no 100% ideal outcome, but the results produced by a system based on competition and the profit motive are going to be superior to the government model.

I'm not "liberal" but I can address the Wall St. issue.

The point is that it is an absolutely glaring double standard in the administration of justice. Government convicts these people of "racketeering" while ignoring literally 1000s of instances of fraud, forgery and perjury committed by the big Wall St. banks.
The whole "robosigning" thing wasn't just some minor problem with the paperwork. It was an absolutely massive effort to create and file false affidavits, create and improperly notarize official documents and submit those forged documents to courts and government agencies. If a dozen people conspiring to cheat on standardized tests is "racketeering" what do you call a giant conspiracy to cover up fraud and use forged documents in order to illegally evict people from their homes?

Uhhhh, I think the presence of the cycle is what makes cycling more efficient than walking.

That was my first reaction as well. The only exercise most people in the USA get is walking and often it's only to and from cars or in stores.

Could be useful for military personnel on long treks or for hiking the Appalachian trail or something. IANA physiologist, but my guess would be that this could not only reduce energy usage, but could also prevent or delay the onset of muscle cramps.

Otherwise you're right, most people would prefer to burn more energy while walking.

I'm sure that the Russian and Chinese hackers are absolutely terrified of Obama's penalties.

The "Buy Now with One Click" sucks bad enough on a desktop or laptop. It's even worse on Android devices. I actually read part of the Amazon appstore terms of service and it states that by using their appstore, you agree to this "one click" BS and that all sales are final. Way too easy to buy an app you didn't intend to purchase.
Now they're going to have a physical button that can buy things if you knock it on the floor or the cat steps on it? I can just imagine a 2 year old playing with this thing and beating on it like a bongo drum.
BUY BUY BUY BUY BUY BUY BUY BUY

"We need chapter 7 or 11 for student loans. "

Yes, and we need to get federal government out of the student loan business and student loan guarantee business. The availability of guaranteed credit is the primary driver of tuition price increases.