Posts Made By: Patrick Keafer

Rod Kaufman said:

Who's America's public enemy number one?
Iran? Nope?
OPEC Countries? Oh, they love us.
China? You're getting warm.
The top honor goes to, as per Mitt Romney, RUSSIA!
That's right, time to reignite the cold war and rebuild America by rebuilding its bomb shelters!
Your top guy at work identifying America's number one foe:
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/03/26/romney-not-worried-about-santorum-labels-russia-no-1-foe/?hpt=hp_bn5

David Wagner said:

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/03/28/toobin_hard_to_imagine_how_things_could_be_going_worse_for_obama_administration.html

Yesterday it was a train wreck, today updated to a "plane crash", by no more credible a source than Clinton Network News itself, that paragon of fairness...

Rod Kaufman said:

Reagan lawyers argue against conservative supreme court activism:
http://themoderatevoice.com/143221/sign-of-changing-conservatism-reagan-administration-lawyers-concerned-about-supreme-court-activism/
They're surprised? I'm not...

Herbert York said:

.... we have Obama

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/04/02/obama-confident-supreme-court-will-uphold-health-care-law/

Nice!

Herb

Lee Spain said:

I've been watching the Trayvon Martin case with interest. One side effect seems to be a backlash against stand your ground laws in Florida and Georgia.

I think the laws are flawed in that the police and prosecutors seem to stop investigating once it becomes the living guy's word vs. the dead guy's word. I followed at least one case down in Florida where one possible drug dealer shot another and got off by claiming stand your ground. However, I don't think legitimately defending oneself should result in a person having to hire a lawyer. With all due respect to the lawyers on this board, with a criminal defense for a capital crime running $30K plus having to hire a lawyer is probably the second worst thing that can happen to a middle class person.

Does anybody have any thoughts on Stand Your Ground Laws or How They Can Be Refined/Improved?

Ernie Spragg said:

thanks, Astromart, for sharing a glimpse into the future. under a Romney - Palin administration, there will not be any dissenting opinions allowed - ernie spragg fresno ca

George Blahun said:

OK, so Ted plays a mean guitar. I think he has the right to say what he wants, but when you say the wacky, violent nonsense he did, he deserves to be questioned by the Secret Service.

Russ Carroll said:

For all to see...

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303425504577355851365704514.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_AboveLEFTTop


In an op-ed for the ages in the Massachusetts Medical Devices Journal this week, Ms. Warren came out against ObamaCare's 2.3% excise tax on medical device manufacturers that kicks in next year. Such a levy has no place in a "fair tax system," she says, and she favors repeal. Ms. Warren even uses that word, repeal, which in the context of government health care might raise an eyebrow or two on Boston Common or whatever park her followers are occupying these days.

When "Congress taxes the sale of a specific product," Ms. Warren explains, "it too often disproportionately impacts the small companies with the narrowest financial margins and the broadest innovative potential." She adds that in the medical devices case such taxation "pushes companies of all sizes to cut back on research and development for life-saving products."

So Ms. Warren is conceding that when the government taxes something we get less of it, though you'd have to be a Harvard faculty member to believe otherwise. But how come she thinks this insight only applies to innovative medical devices and not to, say, investment or even other boring old businesses?

Russ Carroll said:

http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/02/politics/secret-service/index.html?hpt=hp_t3

Sick...really sick.