I'm old enough to remember when not being a snitch was a good thing.

I'm reading ... speculation ... on line that he shot into a van thinking it was transporting ice agents but was filled with detainees being moved between facilities.

That would ... ALMOST ... make sense? But ... why would he not confirm his targets? What kind of ideologue shoots at what he can't see and might actually be an empty van? Who assumes an unmarked van with no windows is transporting cops?

I have SO many questions.

What's weird to me is, my first thought on hearing the news was, a disgruntled and disturbed person was targeting ice enforcement ... but apparently he was targeting detainees ... . Which makes no sense. Why target people on their way out of the country? How is killing them and himself worth whatever point he was making?

Yeah there was no chance it was going to be there for very long ...

But someone sunk some real money into it.

What's weird to me is, my first thought on hearing the news was, a disgruntled and disturbed person was targeting ice enforcement ... but apparently he was targeting detainees ... . Which makes no sense. Why target people on their way out of the country?

I can't wait for the FBI investigation and the congressional hearings to find out who placed this statue.

It's actually an AMAZING statue. I laughed actually out loud when I saw it.

But ... but ... . But ... .. voting with your feet is how this great vibe works! It's how you find the right place to live in accordance with your ideals! That's what makes every state unique!

The only things that defines assault on a federal agent isn't ICE, it's Title 18 USC 111

Some of you are calling this a pro hit?

This has all the hallmarks of a low tech and amateur hour hit.

A few things, 1) no sniper of any training would have set up on that roof where he was easily seen. 2) The distance is a chip shot. With only an hour of training at a range, a 12 year old girl could make that shot with a a scoped hunting rifle. 3) His get away plan was to jump down from a 20 foot roof? He sprained and possibly broke his ankle jumping down.

This was no pro hitter. This was a mentally deficient person with an axe to grind.

21: Gumby would be flabbergasted over your ability to bend that tripe into a positive.

Wait until they find out gloves exist.

"Elect the top vote getters"

So your argument is: not to be against an unfair and ridiculous process, but point and say: "they cheat so we can too?"

Do away with all Gerrymandering. Make everything statewide. Get 100 on the ticket for congress people can only vote for 1 person and that the top vote getters. That way you are pretty much guaranteed to have the ratio of republican and democrat congressman to reflect almost exactly the ratio of republican to democrat voters.

As you so rightly point out, it would result in tremendous additions of republican seats in all of New England and even heavily blue states like California. But it will also result in large gains of Democrat seats in heavily red states like Texas.

Will it shift the balance of power? I don't know. But what I do know is, the elected representatives are much more likely to redirect the will of the states people.

74: be honest. Do you actually believe that this would result in a less representative democracy than what we have now? You think a government elected like this would serve the citizens less so than now? Or do you just believe your preferred party would lose seats?

Why don't we just outlaw districts. Make every office state wide especially the federal level.

It would be incredibly simple. You can only vote for one federal congressman and one state congressman. If the state has 30 federal congressman let 60 people or more run. The top 30 vote getters are elected. You end up with a much fairer system that much more accurately affects the body politic of the state.

Red state that is 55% regional generally? They are far more likely to end up as a 16/14 split Republican-Democrat split.

No need to crack, pack, stack crazy districts.

I look forward to the day a Democrat wins the presidency and devices to fire everyone that didn't bite for him and install loyalists and all the republicans get red faced while vociferously defending their ability to do so.

Just kidding. They would be red faced and absolutely apoplectic if a democrat used the precedent they set and did the exact same thing.

Yeah. The government needs to forgive all loans that have had at least their original loan amount repaid.

The government caused these problems. They caused the loans to be predatory, they caused them to be so high by artificially driving up college tuition, and they have made these loans to be the worst possible burden by making it one of the only debts that can't be discharged in bankruptcy.

Government caused it, they are the only ones that can implement the remedy.

Huh. That is the opposite of this report:

I don't have any issue stripping naturalized of their citizenship for any of these crimes.

However ... .

I have concerns. Chiefly, we burned through Al of the criminals to be deported after about 3 weeks. Now we're deporting Abuela that hit a parking ticket 17 years ago, forgot to claim it in her paperwork 15 years ago and now she'd practically Osama Bin Ladin's chief lieutenant.

This slippery slope is nearly vertical.