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How does anyone know what Flynn spoke with Russians about, or that he even made that call? Wasn't he still a private citizen at the time? Wouldn't a warrant be required to tap or otherwise monitor his calls or obtain phone records? Has anyone produced a warrant? Has the intelligence agency who reported this been identified? It seems to me that some important pieces in this story are missing, and I've barely heard anyone address any of it.

You're terrible at this.

Which only goes to further the point that if an anarchist doesn't respect laws, they most certainly won't respect trash cans, let alone other people's property.

Thanks. Economics isn't my strong suit, but it sure looked to me like it was less an indictment of those states than he was making it out to be.

That can be just as easily characterized as a list of states with the lowest state & local tax burden that receive more of their federally taxed dollars back into their communities. In other words, if Washington takes away X amount of your residents' money, you're doing good to get a large share of that back, especially if you're keeping your local taxes under control. I'd wager that your New Yorks and Californias have a slightly higher state and local tax burden on their residents than do places like Mississippi, Idaho, and North Dakota.

Can you imagine how they'll behave the next time they lose an election? Boy, they're gonna be really, really pissed. No telling what they'll be wearing on their heads during that march.

X 2. Best laugh of the day so far!

It appears to be NARAS that's behind the appeal to Trump. I think they'd probably prefer the general public believe that their favorite artists are getting screwed, but the artists have pretty much been getting screwed for decades. The recording industry itself looks like they're trying to force payment from radio stations for airing their music - which might be a reasonable request, since the radios stations play the music and collect all the ad revenue. The recording industry has been screwing most artists for years. Most people would be appalled at the horrible deals that bands happily accept when they sign. NARAS is probably trying to open a fresh revenue stream to make up for the money they no longer make on independent artists who have been taking advantage of the huge advancements in home recording technology and internet distribution.

Well, if consenting humans and carp are fine with it, I'd hardly call it "work", but hey - if you can get paid for it too, then more power to you!

Hey, what consenting adults and carp do behind closed doors is no business of ours.

A NIT is only conservative relative to the larger, more onerous methods of income assistance & aid currently in place. Supplementation of income with tax dollars is not a conservative principle. I agree that the idea of a negative income tax is a more attractive way to provide assistance, but it still provides a disincentive for people to better themselves. With regard to nationalizing healthcare into a single, universal system, I fail to see how that will help at all, especially considering that the reason healthcare is in it's current state is due largely to regulatory interference in the first place. But that's an argument for a different thread.

Did you watch that whole video? Friedman said that the benefit of the negative income tax was that it would be less of a burden on the budget than the various welfare programs of the time, more fair to everyone via the tax code, while having little to no safeguards against fraud. His advocacy was from the point of view of making income assistance less onerous for taxpayers, not for strengthening or expanding it.

Nixon was no conservative. Price controls? The EPA? That was a different, and much more leftist Republican party than what we have now. And if you're saying that Milton Friedman has ever advocated for government subsidy of private income, I would have you provide a link to him stating such in his own words, because anything I've ever heard from him is the complete opposite of that.

That's because the performers are all about artistic integrity. I couldn't even type that one sentence without laughing...

That's not what I meant. I'm speaking in general terms about universal basic income vs people's responsibility to do the best they can to take care of themselves.

Nicely done.

My honest answer to that question is for people to learn robotics and programming technology. Even an associates degree from a local community college can tech you what you need. In a free society people will always be responsible for learning or developing a marketable skill.

Back to millennials - just like everyone else, they'll figure it out once they get out into the workplace, begin to raise families, and learn what life is really like. Nothing will set your head straight like a good dose of the real world and having to actually navigate through it.

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It's too difficult to read with discernment and avoid confirmation bias. You're just asking too much.

How appropriate - a red sky over San Fransisco.

She was just expressing her femininity. Empowered women do that.

It's not about being classy anymore - it's about being empowered. She's not wearing skimpy clothes and making sexual gestures because it's a male-dominated world in which she's forced to demean herself in order to succeed, she's wearing skimpy clothing and making sexual gestures because she's a bold, successful, and empowered modern woman.