Michelle Bachmann's own staff is testifying against her about spending irregularities. Sharon Angle (from right here in the great state of Nevada) has already paid $25,000 in fines for spending her campaign funds illegally.

Those are the only 2 Tea Partiers I can name.

I'm a conservative who was once very hopeful that the Tea Party might help turn around the Republican Party (which is more about expanding the government and the debt than anything else). Then I went to a Tea Party rally, where I got to hear all about how it's the duty of all Americans to NOT pay taxes, and how the niggers are taking over.

So yeah, audit them. All of them.

The government permits cable monopolies, and therefore have a responsibility to ensure that those monopolies aren't abusive (yeah, they're doing a piss poor job of it).

The solution is trivial: End cable monopolies. In the '80s there were 3 cable companies in my area, competition was fierce, and prices and service were great. Today there is a single cable company, and they are a disaster.

If the John McCain of 2000 had rerun in 2008, he would have won easily.

Instead the New & Improved John McCain embraced all the things that even Republicans hated about Bush, refusing to address the massive spending spree or the vast expansion of government size and authority overseen by Bush and the Republican Congress from 2000 to 2006.

And then he chose a moron as a running mate.

Facts are off the table.

I've never had any problem with any of them. I can also use both a Phillips and a flat-head screwdriver.

I'll add: Link the amount of student aid available in the U.S. to the expected earnings. Engineering students == lots of aid. English majors* == little aid.

(Yes, I know there are exceptions -- we're talking *averages* here.)

Is there a citation for this? I would expect them to be both faster and more agile than us, considering that when compared to most primates, we are both slow and clumsy.

I use a Transformer Prime w/ keyboard dock as my primary laptop. Thanks to a great app ecosystem, it's more useful than a ($1300!) Chromebook.

Here's hoping Pichai works toward realizing the potential of Android, and phases out Chrome as an "operating system."

Not logical, and makes broad assumptions about the *purpose* of marriage.

The problem is that your statement assumes the purpose of marriage is procreation, or perhaps to unite a penis with a vagina, since those are pretty much the only things exclusive to male/female union. (One might argue that child rearing IS the logical purpose and intent of marriage, in which case same-sex marriages must also be permitted, as there are many, many single lesbians and gay men with children.)

Not only is there nothing in any law that says this, but to believe it would necessitate outlawing marriage for elderly people, many handicapped, males with untreated ED, and the infertile.

Additionally, while procreation, sex, or child rearing CAN'T logically be the purpose of marriage, union with a loved one IS a more logical purpose, and could potentially include same-sex couples. As could marriages based solely on business arrangements.

Also, it's not possible that we have a "legal right to marry a member of the opposite sex" because the legal rights we have are spelled out in the Constitution (or ruled on by the Court), and that ain't one of them.

In short, you're pretending that the law says what you want it to say in order to make a logical argument for the exclusion of same-sex marriages, and there isn't one.

There is, however, a strong logical argument FOR same-sex marriages.

I'm struggling to see how this has anything to do with Democracy in any way.

I'm struggling to see how this has anything at all to do with the Streisand effect. No one is named, so no one has had attention brought to themselves. Certainly DC doesn't care whether people know about this or not.

I assume this statement is how you got modded Insightful, although "Redundant" might be more accurate since that's in TFS. Here's my comment, which is much more insightful:

Card's demonization is the Left Wings version of the Dixie Chicks [non]controversy: Public person makes statement unrelated to their artistic works, and an idiotic public punishes them for it.

...and yet our soldiers are protected by civilian contractors in many U.S. military bases.

Kinda makes you wonder who's highly trained and who's a candy ass, no?

A few trillion spent with absolutely no gain -- but much loss -- for the U.S.? Yeah, that's a win alright.

GP is correct: "The Iraq war was declared a win" only by people swayed by swagger rather than substance. By your own admission, it's all in the marketing.

Obama is -- in nearly all of his policies and goals -- a Reagan Republican. The hagiography surrounding Reagan by people who disagree with nearly all of his policies is truly bizarre.

Probably just an H-1B first poster doing a crappy job.