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- Editorial: Guns, speech May 23, 2013 · 14 comments
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- City commissioner wants state to revoke nightclub's liquor license May 21, 2013 · 84 comments
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City commissioner wants state to revoke nightclub's liquor license
Why would you suggest increasing patrols in an area around the bar, however that's defined, when it's clear that the problems originate at the bar? Common sense dictates that we differentiate between where the problems begin and the area that just happen to be nearby. And respond accordingly.
May 23, 2013 at 2:33 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
City commissioner wants state to revoke nightclub's liquor license
You define "rap" and "rough crowd" using the same standard as your earlier suggestion that the police "keep an eye on" the place. Completely arbitrary, no. Using some common sense, yes.
May 23, 2013 at 8:55 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Will of the people
Yes. Those that scream the loudest, seeking to protect their "right" to yell fire in a crowded theater are nuts. They are not protectors of our freedom of speech.
Those who would defend their "right" to sacrifice their first born child because God commands it are nuts as well. They are not protectors of our freedom of religion.
Every one of our rights have had reasonable limits placed upon them, for the good of society as a whole. As it should be.
May 23, 2013 at 8:38 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
City commissioner wants state to revoke nightclub's liquor license
I may not be able to define it, but I know it when I see it. (Justice Potter Stewart, paraphrase)
May 23, 2013 at 8:27 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Will of the people
All this "we need to do this, we need to that", you're asking from a group you admit has become cynical, apathetic, sitting in the bleachers. It seems the cynicism needs to end, before "this" can be done. The apathy needs to end before "that" can be done. Citizen Joe/Jane need to get out of the bleachers and onto the field before anything can be done. How do you propose getting them off their duffs and get them into the game? How do you propose getting them to care enough so that they'll want to get into the game?
May 23, 2013 at 7:02 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Opinion: Benghazi triggers a major credibility crisis
Be clear, not every way that the Senate chooses to define it's role is fine with me. I'm just saying it is what it is. Let me give an example of one of the most egregious examples, though this is the entire Congress, not just the Senate. The War Powers Act has the effect of Congress abdicating it's Constitutional responsibility of declaring war. I may not agree with it, but they've chosen to do it.
But we were talking about advise and consent. Do we interpret that broadly, or narrowly? That's for the Senate to decide. Earlier, I made the claim that with Presidential appointments, the Senate generally cedes to the President the right to appoint whomever they want, regardless of philosophy, unless there is some overriding reason to not do so. There are exceptions, Bork being one that comes to mind, but those are rare. I mentioned earlier the nominations of Justices Scalia and Ginsburg, two Supreme Court Justices with philosophies just about as far apart as one can imagine. Yet they were confirmed just seven years apart, by a Senate that probably had many of the same members. Scalia's vote was unanimous while the vote on Gingburg was 93-3. With votes like that by the same people, clearly, philosophy was put off to the side. What was considered was were they qualified. Once that was settled, they were confirmed. So advice and consent to them didn't mean philosophy, it meant qualified. Maybe that doesn't suit you, maybe you think advice and consent should mean something else. But in this case, I think it's clear that the Senate acted in a way that they thought was proper.
Supreme Court nominations have become spectacles. Lot's of questions before full committees. Nominations of under secretaries of commerce for Latin American affairs, or the hundreds like that, don't get the publicity nor the scrutiny that SC nominations do. They breeze through, I'm guessing, but probably without hearings before a full committee. Probably just a sub-committee and a background check by a staff lawyer. But the President does get to install his people, with few exceptions.
May 22, 2013 at 8:15 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Opinion: Amid crisis, Europe resists extremism
Is this really the direction you want to go. I made several points in my post. Would you like to discuss them? Fine. If picking nits is what you would like to do, I'll pass.
May 22, 2013 at 2:10 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Opinion: Amid crisis, Europe resists extremism
If the Greeks don't want to suck off the German teat, then they can begin by not asking to suck off the German teat. If they don't like the conditions set forth for a bailout, they can simply not ask for a bailout. If the wealthy Greeks aren't paying their taxes, the government could respond by enforcing the laws, instead of asking someone else pay for that.
Maybe the Greeks should simply withdraw from the EU. Then they could take your advice, Bozo, and print a trillion trillion drachmas.
May 22, 2013 at 1:48 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Opinion: Amid crisis, Europe resists extremism
No, I'm not saying that. My self interest is how I define it. Your self interest is how you define that. I don't have to agree with you, you don't have to agree with me. Right and wrong doesn't have to enter the equation. It can, if you choose for it to. But that's your choice. It's my choice as well. And in the statement I made, I chose to not make a distinction between enlightened self interest and self centered greed. If you want to read that into my comment, that's fine. That's your choice. It's not my choice and it's not what I meant to say.
May 22, 2013 at 1:39 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Opinion: Amid crisis, Europe resists extremism
If the net result is the same, what you call it is just you judging, using your own values. That's fine. But the net result is still the same.
May 22, 2013 at 10:38 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )