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You KNOW they do. The whole point of arresting them is that they need corroborating evidence that Donald Trump knew the Russians were trying to feed him information about the Clinton emails. He publicly mentioned this in April when he encouraged Russian hackers to "find her missing emails" or...

You cannot oppose murder while also being opposed to PREVENTING murder. You could truthfully say that Libertarians discourage murder, but actively seeking to prevent it requires denying certain rights to would-be murderers. So a man who stands in a public place and says ten times a day for a...

Depends on what you mean by "today." For what it's worth, until about the mid 1980s, the term "race riot" had a very SPECIFIC meaning in America. Just because it hasn't happened in a while doesn't mean it'll never happen again...

Well, he just did. And he provided a criterion by which one can objectively judge it as such. You, on the other hand, define "sane and reasonable" quite literally as "Whatever I happen to like" which is not what either of those words mean. We had this discussion before too: just because a...

The right to bear arms implies the ABILITY to use them aggressively. This is very similar to the way a person's right to privacy implies the ability to hide evidence of crimes or commit criminal conspiracy. The question before you is, at what point does the ability to use weapons aggressively...

The range owners probably do, sure. That doesn't mean the police or the judicial branch will do the same. There are a hundred things people think are illegal that actually aren't and there are a hundred things people think are legal that they could get arrested for any second. Ultimately, the...

They ARE, though. Derec and ron apparently implying that for free speech to be meaningful, it implies that said speech must be able to be received by its intended audience regardless of interference. The problem is, the constitution doesn't gaurantee you the right to hear what you want to hear...

"Possession" is not so strictly defined in practice. If you find a bag of money in the street and then turn it in to the police, you cannot be charged with "possession of stolen property" just because you were holding the bag for an hour and a half. The implication of "possession" is that you...

What he IS doesn't matter so much as what he ISN'T. That is, he doesn't appear to have a criminal record. He doesn't seem connected to any known terrorist organizations. He doesn't have (that we can tell) any discernible right-wing agenda or political aspirations. To be honest, I still don't...

^ You have a constitutional right to speak. You do not have a constitutional right to be heard. :biggrina:

And this is a problem WHY? I mean, if I have my driver's license suspended for a DUI, my dad can't legally allow me to drive his car. And in many states, if I get drunk and run over someone in a car that isn't mine, the owner of the car is partially liable for the damage, especially if he knew...

Assuming the target itself is valuable enough to warrant the bombing in the first place. When fighting lightly armed guerillas hiding in trees, you send a platoon of marines in a Sweep and Clear mission. Carpet bombing is used for softening up fortifications or suppressing massed groups of...

Not with an M60 or an M240. Those belt-fed guns are DESIGNED for a long spray like that. Lean on the trigger for 15 to 20 seconds and that's 200 rounds right there. Of course, I wouldn't be the first to point out that the sounds of Paddock's gun recorded from the concert has a firing rate...

It wasn't. Because taken as a whole, by all objective measures, the cost of staying would have been far less than the cost of leaving, and it was possible that the costs would eventually be compensated. The only problem with that premise is that the cost of staying would have been paid entirely...

Just as you need to show the mechanism of those deaths being Ho Chi Minh's fault. Exactly. Exactly. So could Cambodia after the war. So clearly the communists weren't responsible for the famine there, it must have been the farmers. I'm looking at data compiled by the Vietnamese government...

The average REASONABLE person does, for the most part. Not everyone is -- or even wants to be -- a reasonable person. On certain things, yes. There are some people I believe cannot be reasoned with under any circumstances and taking steps to avoid inconveniencing them is ultimately...

Yes he did. Back in the early 1950s, Diem spent time just about EVERYWHERE trying to find a patron to support his rise to power. The U.S. didn't bite, but he was able to get the backing of the French and a few powerful European Catholic and anti-communist hardliners. Diem was no puppet, he was...

Of course they matter. They're just impossible to quantify in terms of causality and it is unfair and spurious to assign blame to indirect deaths to the actions of one government or another. That, at least, is the reason you refuse to attribute indirect civilian deaths of Palestinians to...

Put that another way: laws ONLY restrict the actions of the law abiding. Laws do not restrict the actions of criminals (if they were not restricted by the law, they wouldn't be criminals, yes?) Bilby's point is that the law doesn't actually constrain the actions of citizens, the citizens choose...

No. What everyone else means by "reasonable" is "Whatever solution can be objectively said to solve the problem specified while also causing the least amount of problems in its implementation." This is similar to the word "efficient" but implies a situation with multiple solutions, all of which...