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They current movement, which is aimed at uniformity of gun laws, and restricting access to particular types of guns, is constantly being mischaracterized as a "gun ban". This will be read illogically and emotionally by some as a total gun ban, subconsciously inserting the word "total", which...

There are two types of posts here. One type appeals to bias and emotion ; the other to logic and deliberation. Yours is of the first type. You can't support your statement with pertinent evidence or logical argument; you rely on emotion and bias. These "children", as you put it, and young...

So, what is your point? Who cares where the money comes from so long as there is enough to support these kids' efforts. Their arguments are logical and consistent with arguments based on probability. The NRA's arguments have always been emotionally based and illogical. For years public...

Well there is a good reason not a peep will make the news. Same reason Mexico deciding to pay for the Wall doesn't make the news. ;) When something doesn't make it beyond ET invariably it's because someone "Googled" it.

Recent events suggest we may have all underestimated how seriously impairing Trump's mental state is. He is now behaving like a caged hyena. It is going to get worse as he strikes at everyone who doesn't accept that he is a "very smart guy" and the source of credit for his business ventures...

Or perhaps even similarly inaccurate. :rolleyes: As I noted, the accuracy of the models is highest for tomorrow, less for 6 months from now, and much less for 6 years from now. But if we keep doing this over and over, sooner or later we are going to get a prediction six years out that proves...

I was opposed to us dropping out of the Paris accord. I'm totally with you on all of the good things that come from development of alternatives to fossil fuels, Battery technological advances are fantastic. But as a scientist I strongly object to what is obviously some very bad science. I...

The IPCC comes out with major reports about every 5 to 8 years. I think the last one was in 2014 and they are aiming for 2022 ( 4 years from now) for the next one. One consistent feature of these reports is that all the models fit the past beautifully. This is not a surprise because data from...

I appreciate clever, good natured humor, even when I'm the target. Well done!

We have had a number of severe, internal existential tests to see if our government could withstand its inherent weakness. The revolutionary war*, before we had much of a government at all, would have been the first, which we survived largely due to help from France; the civil war; the Nixon...

You've read but you have not yet absorbed what I wrote. It's OK. It's not that easy.

If everyone carried a bomb with them people would be afraid to bomb other people because there would always be someone around who could bomb them back. What we really need now for self protection are semiautomatic bombs. That's so in an emergency all you have to do is squeeze them and they go...

Because it isn't. Good government and liberty are allies not adversaries. That's the test to determine if government is good or bad,i.e., does it protect liberty or does it diminish it. Those who think government is bad without making the distinction between good and bad government are the...

Synthetic. It's already here. It is so cheap and easy to come by that it was available briefly as a street drug in parts of the U.S. before being clamped down on. Got a very bad name quickly because so easy for an idiot to overdose, but at the correct levels the effect is the same, as the...

Much of this recent news is extremely disheartening to me.

Is that true??? That's ground breaking if it is. We are learning so much. Incredible! It seems that Mueller might prove collusion after all. I had assumed that it would just be violation of the emollients clause, obstruction of justice, money laundering and tax fraud. But wow. This is...

In hindsight it might have been a good idea for McCabe to recuse himself from the Clinton investigation because he is a Republican, or claims to be, and therefore might have been predisposed to favor locking Hillary up. We can say the same of Sessions, who is clearly a Republican, and the same...

Why do you leave me with the impression you didn't read my entire post, or if you did, you failed to grasp it. We have both made the same point, but I stated it in a more circumspect and careful manner without over reaction or hyperbole, such as your silly foray into the 'Espionage Act'...

One interpretation is of course that McCabe was trying to protect Clinton by "softening" the language. When the layman reads 'grossly negligent' versus 'extremely careless', however, he doesn't see much difference, both seen bad, and one expression doesn't seem any "softer" than the other...

I just wanted to comment briefly on this word "collusion".. I don't think there is any direct evidence of the Trump campaign actively assisting the Russians in hacking American Social Media in an attempt to influence the election. "Collusion implies that there was active cooperation between the...