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Yep. Right now a candidate like Charlie Baker would win the presidential election in an absolute landslide and would simultaneously be demolished in a red state primary to someone who ran on a creationist climate change denial platform.

Yep. The two most popular governors in the country are Republicans in blue states. Showing that the message of limited fiscal interference and social liberalism is what the majority of Americans want; but we let a few million crazies in Iowa and NH decide who will be the nominee every few years.

How do you pull that off without sounding incredibly condescending?

I would assume there are a lot of poor students (who are probably disproportionately minority) who might not have access to transportation once they turn 18, but do have access to school buses. I have no idea how widespread (or not) that is, but I don't see a negative to allowing...

Has anyone defended the other provisions of the law, like shortening early voting periods, preventing pre-registration of 16 and 17 year olds etc.? Because while I think reasonable people can disagree about the propriety of requiring a photo ID to vote as a means of combating fraud that may or...

Live video here of Fox Turkey. There were just a few explosions followed by yelling. I have no idea what they're saying.

Pretty sure taking photographs of people changing is still very much illegal!

I think there are absolutely good cops and bad cops. The good cops are the ones that tip off media members about things like the Laquan McDonald shooting. The vast majority of cops are good cops. The majority of police shoootings involve police officers who have prior complaints of excessive...

And then there are the anecdotal accounts vs. peer-reviewed journal articles. I'm sure there are some people who would waste money no matter what. I'm just saying that there's actual, empirical evidence which contradicts the narrative that if we gave poor people enough money to live on, they...

I recently read a very good book called Evicted, and in it the author discussed the poorest of the poor making objectively unreasonable purchases with limited funds. One of the things I found interesting was his discussion of social science literature which indicates that when poor individuals...

Considering your avatar, I'm curious: would you say any judge who's a member of this organization shouldn't be allowed to hear a case in which an Irish person was involved?

A lot of things mentioned here are great. One note on Capital Bikeshare is to understand how it works. A lot of people just rent the bike and apparently don't return it until the end of the day. Check out angry Yelp reviews about it! But as long as you don't have the bikes out for more than 30...

Yep. He'll be taking over for Reed in the 8th before too long.

You're right. I also liked that his changeup was a lot faster than Young's fastball yesterday. On another note, it's very nice to have a second baseman who doesn't inspire terror on every ground ball hit to him.

Thor. He's pretty good.

Can't wait!!

There are two potential things to sue on: (1) invasion of privacy (like Hulk Hogan), but that's a very high bar for a public figure; or (2) defamation/libel, but the truth is an absolute defense to those claims, so NE's lawyers would get a chance to ask a ton of questions that I assume Cruz, or...

I'd like to imagine Bernie picking Stephen Reinhardt, the only judge both older and more liberal than him.

I don't think anything you said makes sense. -No idea what your 1st point about free speech means. -There was no individual right to bear arms until the Supreme Court created it in 2008. -Kagan has never even heard an abortion case on the Supreme Court.

Got it. I guess I've thought of the term differently. For instance, I thought of the recent 11th Circuit decision upholding Florida's statute which bans doctors from discussing guns with their patients as an activist decision because it essentially creates a new rationale for upholding a law...