"only the stupidest of the stupidest people end up on juries, you know?"  Sounds like he got a jury of his peers!

In most states, the sale of tickets for any particular weeks lottery cuts off up to about an hour before the drawing.  A sales clerk is not a lottery official.  I would imagine that lottery officials are prohibited from playing.  jashn, it would be illegal to require the clerk to purchase an incorrect ticket.  I am...more

When I hear some of the "crazy" things some child psychologist have to say about certain parents, I wonder if that psychologist has kids.  I believe one of the requirement to be a child psychologist should be to have children of your own and to have raised them through age 18.

The president should have line item veto rights for anything added to a bill if the item has nothing to do with the original bill.  There is no reason that a bill to grant aid to a section of the country hit by a natural disaster should include an item giving a $1 million to study how dog walkers contribute to pollutin...more

Popeye, I would accept the Dutch Explorer as, perhaps, the first European visitor but, I believe it is quite possible and extremely likely, that there were many other visitors from all around the Indian Ocean and probably, from Asia too.  Bibol, I think the aboriginals might argue with you.  You don't need to have ...more

gil, I never said that I thought she didn't have a hand in the four deaths.  All I said is that rants such as this are uncalled for and possibly illegal and anyone using the airways for something like this should be fired. I would have no problem at all with putting Hillary on trial for negligence and dereliction r...more

Neale, so how should a nation pay for the services that allow their citizens to do whatever they do?

I did not leave out any details since the point of my comment was just to note that we, at one time, have some very high percentage tax brackets.  I was not commenting on which portion of the population paid the majority of taxes.  Since you brought it up though, the wealthiest 10%, in the U.S., paid about 71% of the t...more

I am a republican.  I used to consider myself to be a right wing republican but, not so much any more.  I spent 35 years in the Navy, prepared to give everything to protect our constitutional ideals such as freedom of speech.  I don't believe Santilli's rant is covered under the Second Amendment because he is threateni...more