How do you square your idea of an aloof, unknowable god with the personal god of the bible who gives individual people instructions and intervenes in their lives on a regular basis?

The point of screening pilots isn't to catch pilots, it's to catch people dressed as pilots. I'm a staunch opponent of the TSA, but screening pilots is one of the few correct things they're doing.

Thank god the TSA is keeping us safe from the dangers of canned soup.

He wants to return to the gold standard, deregulate the economy, gut social programs, and eliminate the IRS. All of those benefit the capitalist class almost exclusively.

Ron Paul has good social policies, but terrible economic policy for most of us.

rally != lynchmob

And how convenient, given that he's the only witness.

We'll never know who started the fight. The only witness is the shooter. What we do know is that Zimmerman was pursuing this kid against the recommendation of the 911 operator. The best thing you can say about him is that he showed terrible judgement.

17 is still a child, bud.

Then you haven't been listening. Second result on Google. First is ubrandictionary defining it as "A play on Barack Hussein Obama II's last name, citing his roots as a typical Apefrican, bongo beating, bush monkey."

Considering that the phrase "welcome to America" came right after the word macaca (aimed at a natural born citizen, by the way), I don't think that the word's usage was anywhere as innocent as you're trying to paint it.

If you're trying to link this incident to other attempts to introduce racial animosity, you could pick better examples.

All that needs to be said about the supposed "news/commentary" divide on Fox.