Does everyone else also have that right? How about someone who is engaged in a securities scam or human trafficking? Should they be informed about the under cover officer who is working to see them put away for stealing people's money or prostituting teenage girls? How would you like that information delivered to you and to those criminals? Do you prefer an RSS feed, or perhaps a PDF emailed weekly?

You also make it virtually impossible for the average citizen to carry a firearm for self-defense, an activity that's allowed with very few questions in 43 of the 50 States. You can't even legally carry pepper spray in MA without a license, something that I'm pretty sure is allowed without a license in every other State in the Union.

Thanks, but no thanks. Plenty of States to choose from that don't regulate self-defense or abortion.

Umm, seriously?

They had collector value. Just like old stamps and medieval scrolls have value. You can twist the definition of "value" into anything you want, but you aren't looking as smart as you think you are. The demand of beanie babies far outweighed their supply. When that wasn't true anymore, the value tanked. There is no psychological MBA horseshit here. Like an overpowered Magic The Gathering card, it's value is high, but if you decide to give one away free with a self-addressed, stamped envelope, it will be nothing more than rough toilet paper

This. I recall from my childhood having to "test" both shatter-proof rulers (for some reason when you're aged 8 shatter-proof = indestructible = must test this) and water-resistant watches (when you're 8 years old, water-resistant = completely water-proof).

I have no recollection of being impressed enough to remember.

I guess these ideals have an acidic effect on Statism.

I was providing the URL you'd omitted, and reacted to a quote within your text. You're welcome.

So you're argument is Cruz might be an Obama of the right, roping in a lot of people and then carrying on as a progressive?
I'm confident that, were he to play it like that, he'd not win re-election.

Of course the idea is a mixed bag. As long as you're happy with 90lbs of crap from a federal senator more inclined to the ear of DC and his party than his state, it will seem better than 10lbs of crap from the same senator when the state flips and the term is up under a new governor.
I'm still not confident you've understood the systemic argument here.

What was your alternative, again?

To be fair, beanie babies didn't have a limited production. When they flooded the market to where McDonalds was giving them out with happy meals, that was their demise. If they would have kept or even lowered production instead, they still might have value.

Is it possible that he was either unaware, or didn't take it seriously?
After all of the bashing for those concerned about the no-talent rodeo clown's birth, I can't tell if Lefties actually care about this, or are just wallowing in recreational irony.
For the record, I'm shaving with Occam's Razor: the likeliest option to me is that Obama is a dope-smoking piece of work from Hawaii, who tarted up his literary biography to seem exotic, and used his original hard copy birth certificate for rolling paper. I really never have cared, and have been more fascinated by how this issue, itself, has been weaponized. Very instructive.

If your argument included a more robust survey, and noted that the Bible spent a great deal more time talking about Canaan, you'd sound less a Philistine.
Nice try, though. I cannot commend the Good Book to you enough.

I know what those five words mean, individually. That particular sequence seems a violation of the Incompleteness Theorem.
The crushing irony of your silly misreads is that you're making my point in a practical sense: our current Progressive economic course has bred what's tantamount to an aristocracy: if you're not caught with a live boy or a dead girl, you stay in office.
If you ACTUALLY want equality of opportunity, which will get you to a Pareto optimal society, you have to get off your wealth redistribution crack cocaine, and redistribute power.