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You have surprised me. You are beginning to understand somewhat. However the 'programming' does not come from a designer or a "God'. It is a consequence of the nature of matter, and therefore what can occur is highly constrained. And it is constrained in a way that favors formation or...

Doesn't this intelligent design business, or indeed the entire god hypothesis, pose a certain kind of chicken or egg question. Whereas life from non-life eliminates that "issue". Score one for life from non-life.

It isn't all that hard to fish through the crap these days and avoid getting hooked. Nevertheless it is sad to find so many repeat offenders in these forums who never bother to check out the most absurd stories, let alone the more plausible ones, before they burst forth like a breathless child...

...and they will have burnt down the Senate office building, blamed the democrats, announced a state of marshal law and national curfews, whereupon the President will declare himself leader of the Conservative, Christian Republic of the United States and order the rounding up of all...

That's quite true. Trump's memory lapses, which seem to occur daily, if not numerous times a day, seem to be intentional.

Ha ha ha! I wonder what the AMA position on raising medicare reimbursement rates is. :D Only in the face of a crisis would we expect any kind of significant Fed action just prior to an election. The Fed will always go out of its way to avoid the appearance of any sort of political bias, or...

Perhaps you did not realize Baucus was chair of the Senate Finance Committee. Neither the President nor Speaker of the House selects the chair of the Senate Finance Committee. Baucus was right, had the Finance Committee voted to keep the public option in, the Republicans would have filibustered...

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Actually that's quite accurate. Obama care, and especially as passed, is modeled after a plan proposed by the Heritage Foundation and the closely related Massachusetts plan adopted when Romney was governor of Massachusetts. It seems obvious that the Obama Administration adopted a plan very...

Not only do I like your post, I really like it! It pinpoints the real defect in Obama, excuse me, "O'Romney care", viz., costs are not addressed in any meaningful way. Why? It's because O'Romney care is a capitalist approach to providing medical care. But, sadly in this case, capitalism only...

You would have to ask Soros, but as you must know, he is as strong an opponent of totalitarianism as anyone alive today. He clearly does not think completely unregulated markets are good. But there is so much nuance in his ideas that it is extremely easy to get them wrong, and in fact...

The United States is a country that has perfected lying. We call it advertising. In other countries the word "propaganda" means "advertising". When we see how sexy we will become if we buy a certain brand of automobile, we don't think twice about how ridiculous such a message is. We are inured...

It is not clear to me, not yet anyway, that what Mr. Kaepernick did wasn't consistent with performing to a "higher standard," as you say. His reasoning may, or may not, be flawed, but did he perform at a "higher standard?" I think probably he did, at least in that one act. It must surely have...

I'll deny it.

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My economist buddy who lived and worked in Quito told me he never had any concerns landing or taking off from the Quito airport because the Ecuadorian pilots were some of the best in the world. All the mediocre pilots were dead!

But what about "The Home of the Brave?"

If we can be serious for a moment, I wholeheartedly agree with your sentiment as you have expressed it above. I don't however agree with a similar and related sentiment expressed as you did in your prior post. The reason is straight forward: Choice is precluded by circumstances. So to imply...

Exactly, the poor should use their 'free choice' to choose to become a wealthy real estate investor. Or even better! A Star NFL Quarterback.

Jobs lost to driverless cars and ambulances will be partially offset by employment gains in the body shop business and emergency rooms. Driverless ambulances should to some extent generate their own clients. There will be some incentive to replace human EMTs with robots, as there can be no...