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What's your point? There are extremists in the world. Like nobody knows that? Is there a reason you chose a Jew? Why not a Muslim or a Christian extremist? There are plenty of those, too. Whenever someone talks about extremists, then zeroes in on one group only, the agenda is clear.

What researchers? Who are you quoting? I'm not an expert on Corbyn, but I do know one of his clients who says that his "major event" agricultural forecasts issued months in advance have been 60% correct for the past two and half years.

Are you saying that Piers Corbyn's forecasting models are incorrect? Businesses all around the world pay him tens of thousands per year to get accurate weather forecasts. If he's wrong, please give us specifics rather than making vague statements about "Gullibility."

A neighbor of mine owns an agriculture-related business and his company buys long-term forecasts from WeatherAction (located in London). My neighbor says that their forecasts are amazingly accurate, even as much as six months out. He also says that the Physicist who runs the company bases his...

45 million people smoke cigarettes in America 5.5 million people go to Disneyland every year 350,000 people go skydiving every year in the US People do all kinds of things that seem inexplicably stupid to me. So what? People do what they do. As long as they don't force it on me it's...

When Carl Sagan says that three things in particular "deserve serious study" he's saying there might be something there. In a television interview, Sagan mentioned Ian Stevenson's work specifically. That doesn't sound like wishful thinking to me.

Sagan did say that... But he also said that the evidence for reincarnation is worthy of additional study. Also, please don't put words in my mouth. I never said Sagan was a staunch believer, only that he thought that Ian Stevenson's work was worthy of further study. Sagan was a good...

Anecdotal evidence about such experiences is not convincing. It may be true, but there's no way to verify the evidence. Physicist Carl Sagan, a skeptic of near death experiences and not religious in any way, believed there was some testable scientific "evidence" supporting reincarnation. Two...

"... adding that any such tax would have to be implemented worldwide" is really an admission that it can't be done. Barnier is giving the masses the words they want to hear, while at the same time saying he's not so stupid as to think it's really going to happen.

My point was simply this: Ever since the Iraq war, Democrats and the press have tried to change history by saying that it was Republicans who "lied" about WMD even though most Democrats were saying the exact same thing. The fact is, no one was lying. They were all saying what they believed...

I don't think his stand on one issue (WMD) determines anything. Overall, he appears better than most in that fanatical part of the world. At least his politics tend toward being secular rather than fundamentalist.

I noticed you didn't say that Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Wesley Clark or Nancy Pelosi believed there were WMD in Iraq. You only mentioned Bush. I'm sure that was an innocent oversight on your part. As regards your question about ElBaradei, you already know the answer. So why ask it?

You make it sound as if Bush was the only one who thought Iraq had WMD. It was also the prevailing view of democrats. "Saddam's goal ... is to achieve the lifting of U.N. sanctions while retaining and enhancing Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programs. We cannot, we must not and we will...

Yes. That's the point I was making in my original post. The NFL analogy with socialism makes no sense. The teams do what puts the most money in their pockets. With lots of teams, you could spread a lot of wealth around to many teams and players (socialism), but all the existing owners and...

What I find odd about this is that the guy was supposedly ex-military, yet he didn't know that an M-80 is little more than a glorified flare.

Monopolists will only increase the number of participants if it puts money in the pockets of the existing cartel (team owners and players).

I'm from SoCal and there are a surprising number of gun owners here. Even a rabidly anti-Bush/Pro-Obama neighbor who lives across the street has a couple of guns. Whenever possible, I take my SoCal gun-hating liberal friends to the range and they always have to admit they had a good time...

Pro football is operated largely as a monopoly. They keep the barriers to entry as high as possible. They're major political contributors in every major city. They control the number of teams, the number of players, stadiums, the TV contracts, etc. If there were more teams, more people could...

For a country with a large "educated" middle class, they have very backwards beliefs. http://pewglobal.org/2010/12/02/muslims-around-the-world-divided-on-hamas-and-hezbollah/ % of Muslims in Egypt who want the death penalty for those leaving Islam: 84% % of Muslims in Egypt endorsing...

“To leftist intellectuals, it's okay to have a president who thinks he visited 57 states, a vice president who has claimed that Franklin Roosevelt went on television to calm the people after the stock market crash of 1929 (no TV yet, and Hoover was president), and a Speaker of the House who...