Benjamin Franklin

A) Whatever that means from Trump. B) Trump may one day understand that the legislative body makes the laws.* *If Congress reminds him.

You dedicate the entire board to Gator. And yet he's mentally ill?

"Well, I think there's contribution, I think--wants to highlight the contributions that [Frederick Douglass] has made, and I think through a lot of the actions and statements that he's gonna make, the contributions of Frederick Douglass will become more and more." --Sean Spicer vs.

Are you talking about Democrats or Republicans? Hospice is not starvation. Hospice is helping someone die with dignity. It is not assisting in death. If you are in hospice and want to eat hamburgers every day, that's fine. But it won't cure the stage 4 cancer you've decided to give in to. Hospice is choosing the best quality of life you can until you die, when you know your death is imminent. Clinically, hospice is symptom management for terminally ill patients. We need a lot more people to choose it but we all fear death too much. Gorsuch is not against hospice. Only someone ignorant of what hospice is would be against it.

We don't know what it means yet.

He's fine. I like a mix of approaches on the SC and his originalist thinking is one philosophy of legal interpretation. Different from Scalia but same vein. Based on what? Of course it could happen. Breyer, Ginsburg, and Kennedy could all get replaced by Trump. You probably only need one to overturn it and certainly 3 will do it.

"If a seventh grader starts trading fake burps for laughs in gym class, what's a teacher to do? Order extra laps? Detention? A trip to the principal's office? Maybe. But then again, maybe that's too old school. Maybe today you call a police officer. And maybe today the officer decides that, instead of just escorting the now compliant thirteen year old to the principal's office, an arrest would be a better idea. So out come the handcuffs and off goes the child to juvenile detention. My colleagues suggest the law permits exactly this option and they offer ninety-four pages explaining why they think that's so. Respectfully, I remain unpersuaded."

Thoughtful posts of any sort are always met by name-calling from some here. Pay them no attention.

Garland is irrelevant. The Dems had a chance for a year to protest that travesty. They didn't and now they have this. He's qualified (pre vetting process) and the president gets to pick. Assuming there's no huge skeleton in the closet, he fills the Scalia seat. He is different from Scalia on administrative powers. He's a much bigger advocate for the legislature to govern than Scalia was. The next choices are the big ones. Ginsburg, Breyer, Kennedy. All hung on too long.

That's because the number of illiegals here increases absent mass deportations. Illegal immigration itself is low, which is one of the many reasons the wall is stupid, while better security is not. Don's EO doesn't address the illegals already here. Hopefully when he does, he thinks it through (all indications to the contrary).

Mexico is paying for it with tariffs on imports from Mexico. Money for nothing.

Look we agree. Neither side gets it. Both just enjoy when they hold the scepter.

Be real: Neither party is doing that.

If the end result of this mess is that Congress starts doing its damn job and the executive gets reigned in, that's ok. Just need to weather Trump. Mostly his executive orders have been about as expected. Some horribly worded but none a surprise. It's when the surprises come... Already Congress and the Executive are getting closer in approval ratings. You can do it Congress-critters.

Indeed but I know this isn't lost on you. We have a lunatic in the White House.

You have been, and are being, trolled.

51 votes is better. President picks. Senate advises and consents.* That's how the system is supposed to work. As long as Trump doesn't nominate a penguin, his pick should get approved. Enough with the stupid games. *except in undefined periods in which the Senate need not advise or consent.

Spicer took down his Onion retweet. Was there this morning. Press will enjoy asking him about it today.

Spicer links to an Onion story and video. "You nailed it. Period." http://nymag.com/selectall/2017/01/sean-spicer-retweets-the-onion-calling-job-misinformation.html This level of incompetence is physically painful. Get off Twitter. All of you!

So far. /Deranged/

Bannon is a bad thing.

Thanks for proving my point Caitlin.

Studies have shown that Internet tough guys are more likely to wear women's underwear and makeup, not that there is anything wrong with that. But I ask you specifically: Why?

Have you met Ozy?

Bourdain probably went out of his way to try the most "out there" things. The food was fine. Mostly fish and lamb for local dishes but nothing particularly out of the ordinary. It's not as good as France or Italy...it's Northern European bland. You don't go to Iceland for the food.