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You're right. Endangering innocent lives by shooting into the air is definitely "looking out for number one." If you don't have the discipline to hold your fire when required, or the balls to shoot your attacker when necessary, you shouldn't carry a gun. Case closed.

Typically, a bullet on the way down will strike at about 150-300ft/s. That, as you pointed out, is considerably less than muzzle velocity, but still enough to kill. A bullet traveling at just 20% of rated muzzle velocity of the typical 9mm handgun can penetrate the skull of a child or the...

One of the most dangerous things you can do is fire a gun in the air. That bullet is going to come down somewhere and can kill as easily as any other bullet. And YOU are responsible for it. If you, or an innocent third party, is in imminent danger of death or grave bodily bodily harm, shoot...

He can make it all back by fishing out the change from the dozens of sofas in his 66,000 square foot house.

There is no law. There is only politics.

It's not that easy. If the state of Hawaii says that the "Certificate of Live Birth" is a legal document and other states don't accept it, then Hawaii will go to a Federal Court and will probably win. There's a long history of federal legal precedent supporting Hawaii's right to determine such...

Yes. That's the best strategy I've found. I've been doing it for years under the advice of a top tax attorney. It's perfectly legal as long as your IRA is set up and funded properly. Make sure you follow all the rules. (Technically I use a SEP rather than an IRA beause you can make much larger...

I agree that he was probably born in Hawaii. But I find it puzzling that he doesn't produce the original birth certificate and put this issue to bed once and for all. It's the same problem with his undergraduate college records. Gibbs insists that there's nothing in there of any interest, but...

The prosperous middle class of the 1950s-60s was a direct result of WWII. After WWII, the United States had 4% of the world's population and 70% of the intact manufacturing and transportation infrastructure because all the other major industrialized countries (Germany, Japan, Russia, Poland...

I've finally reached a point where I have some financial security. Does it make me happy? I sleep better. I don't have to worry about a roof over my family's head, or how I'm going to put food on the table, and I know I can pay my kids' tuition. Is that happiness? I think so. It's not a...

I don't have a problem with government workers having a pension, but I do have a problem with how those pensions were granted. In the state of California, legislators hand out benefits to the unions and then, at election time, the unions deliver money and votes to get the politicians...

I live there. That's how I got educated about the process.

Cities and counties (municipalities) can restructure under Chapter 9 of the Federal Bankruptcy Code. There currently is no such provision for states. No state has ever declared bankruptcy before.

I have no way of knowing whether these guys are scammers or not, but I've often wondered about the mentality of someone who would set up a hoax like this. The obvious question is: why? If it is a scam, at the very least they're going to look like jerks; and at worst (i.e., if they took...

Yes. That's the puzzling thing about this. Why doesn't he just release it? He could if he wanted to. Maybe it's related to why he won't show his undergrad college records.

It would be brilliant. I'd be willing to bet that FOX has already called Olbermann's agent.

The reason the "birther thing" doesn't interest me is because it appears to be an argument of unresolvable technicalities. My prediction is that the issue will never be settled definitively and everyone will go on believing whatever they want to believe. Obama's undergraduate college records...

1. It's not the first I've heard of it, but it's the first time it happened to someone I knew. 2. I don't know enough about Obamacare to know whether it's connected or not. But I do know it's a bad sign and will effect our medical system in a major way if it continues to happen, irrespective...

My 90 year old grandfather called one of his doctors to make an appointment and was told that his physician is no longer seeing Medicare patients. I don't know if this is widespread, but if so it could become a huge problem.

The birther thing never really seemed all that interesting to me. What I find more engaging is the question why Obama won't release his undergraduate college records. He released his law school records, why not undergrad? What's the big deal? John McCain released his Naval Academy records...