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| D:8509 | DylanSH99 ( 201.39 points)
| May 19, 2013 11:34am |
He should be labeled as (I) President.
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| D:6086 | Jason ( 7718.44 points)
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| May 16, 2013 12:14pm |
Speed limits are a burden on personal liberty and stifle economic activity. Frankly, it's refreshing to see a conservative politician not act like a grandmother on this issue.
Road safety has more to do with awareness of one's surroundings than it does about speed.
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If this is a Muslim who did this, the news will hide that fact until they absolutely have to disclose it.
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| PC:549 | kal ( -57.23 points)
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| April 06, 2013 05:57pm |
I'm not a fan of her, but she's not the WACK-A-DOO that most people on OC try to paint her as.
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| PC:549 | kal ( -57.23 points)
| April 06, 2013 05:16am |
Jason, I disagree because there hasn't actually been a recovery.
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| D:6086 | Jason ( 7718.44 points)
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| April 05, 2013 01:52pm |
MSNBC needs moar Pat Buchanan.
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We tried that before. It didn't work out so well.
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| D:411 | Picimpalious ( 1229.68 points)
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| April 03, 2013 02:41pm |
This is Constitutional. It is also stupid.
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| D:411 | Picimpalious ( 1229.68 points)
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| March 30, 2013 03:40pm |
NSF funding rates are in the single digits
No. This particular study is getting more than three quarters of a million dollars.
proposals go through intensive peer review to decide if they're worth the money.
Scientists who live off grants get to decide what scientists get to live off grants. With that kind of oversight, what abuse could possible happen?
Most of human medicine and countless other applications of science and technology would never have arisen without basic research that had no immediate prospects for any application.
Yeah yeah, if not for the Moon missions, we wouldn't have the microwave. I bet if they had been trying to invent a microwave directly though, they would have done it a lot cheaper and a lot faster than doing so by way of the Moon.
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| D:6086 | Jason ( 7718.44 points)
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| March 30, 2013 03:09pm |
I'm not against using taxpayer money to fund scientific research. That research should, however, be towards something with a tangible benefit for society. Studies on snail reproduction might make for a mildly interesting footnote in some textbook, but given the scope of what's going on with the budget (and even still with unemployment), we no longer have the luxury to fund mere curiosities.
Sure, a lot of researchers' pet projects will go nowhere without outside funds, and that sucks for them. To compensate, they should do what everybody else does: form a non-profit and hustle some eccentric billionaire with a sympathetic ear for these kinds of things. In the meantime, scientists aren't entitled. Frankly it's apologetic responses to articles like these that do the scientific community a disservice by lending substance to various right-wing arguments about how corrupt and self-serving scientists can be.
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| D:411 | Picimpalious ( 1229.68 points)
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| March 30, 2013 02:04pm |
Homegrown Democrat: This is not a "snail sex study" ... it is a study into the advantages and disadvantages of sexual reproduction and they are using an organism that undergoes both sexual and asexual reproduction as their model. They can compare genetic variability between both types of reproduction within a single species rather than comparing two different organisms. This could lead us to a better understanding as to why sexual reproduction is so favored among higher organisms, as well as a more accurate quantification of how much sexual reproduction enhances genetic variability. These are fundamental biology questions and they are certainly worth investigating.
More importantly... hot sexy snail porn.
Still a waste of money.
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| D:6086 | Jason ( 7718.44 points)
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| March 29, 2013 05:59am |
And once the individual mandate kicks in, it will be the poor who suffer. Insurance companies will always be free to gouge when they know consumers have no real recourse.
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| PC:549 | kal ( -57.23 points)
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| March 29, 2013 05:55am |
It's amazing. Almost all of the bad things the opposition said would happen with Obamacare passage has happened.
Rising premiums, rising costs, hours being cut, people losing their coverage. Hell, even the cost of taking care of your pets is going to rise due to the medical equipment taxes.
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| D:6086 | Jason ( 7718.44 points)
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| March 28, 2013 12:28am |
Looks like Kristi Noem won't be the most attractive candidate running for the Senate after all.
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| D:8509 | DylanSH99 ( 201.39 points)
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| March 25, 2013 09:00pm |
Adam C. Powell, IV is running for the Republican Nomination. [Link]
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| P:130 | karin1492 ( 609.45 points)
| March 23, 2013 01:20pm |
He prefaced the comment by saying if Collins retires.
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Query: Why are Prius drivers such douchebags?
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| LBT:8827 | Smart ( 1017.97 points)
| December 26, 2012 06:12pm |
Wonder how much Schatz paid for the appointment.
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| D:6086 | Jason ( 7718.44 points)
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| December 22, 2012 09:09pm |
Voter ID is intended to prevent election day fraud. Absentee fraud would need to be dealt in other ways. That is not a strike against voter ID.
Liberals are dense on this issue.
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TX DEM: PA probably has the worst congressional delegation compared to what the people actually want.
We want several moderate/conservative Republicans with no more than 5 liberal Democratic congressmen. We have it perfectly!
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Dr. King Schultz: This guy is flat out incompetent, Gingrich, at least knew how to get the votes for a Democratic president and could generally work with him.
It's a shift of both parties. Obama is much more unreasonable than Clinton and Boehner has a much more conservative caucus than Gingrich.
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| I:8282 | BobbyG ( 0.00 points)
| December 20, 2012 09:14pm |
This means Obama needs to choose somebody else for Secretary of State.
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| D:411 | Picimpalious ( 1229.68 points)
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| December 19, 2012 12:47am |
Mostly his race.
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| D:6086 | Jason ( 7718.44 points)
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| December 16, 2012 02:42pm |
McCord 2014: But why does any civilian need an automatic weapon?
Wrong question to ask.
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| D:8509 | DylanSH99 ( 201.39 points)
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| December 16, 2012 02:17pm |
I don't think I'll be able to vote but I want to
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