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Comments by Mike Schilling

On “Great Fact, Little Fact

Lead is poisonous as hell, and the market wasn't going to do anything about that. Banning its use was absolutely the right thing to do, ideology be damned.

Global warming is real, and the market isn't going to do anything about that.

On “The Perfect is the Enemy of the Good

I'm confused. On the one hand, responsible gun owners are so careful about safety they approach OCD, but on the other they can't keep track of their bullets.

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I know they do it. I don't know quite why it's allowed, or whether that rule applies to the president. Considering that you called Jesse a name for not knowing why it applies, I assumed you did.

On “The Doomsday Provision

The last time American troops fired on American civilians, it was the 30s.

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3. And don't forget "Hillary and Bill do an end-run around the Constitution by her making him her VP and then resigning."

On “I got nothing – but Friedersdorf does

Russian Communism -- they're both against it. But only one considers Naziism a better alternative.

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We're not an ideological movement, we just compare things we despise to Social Security.

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What about New Deal vs. torture/warrantless searches/preventive detention. False equivalence?

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And Michelle Malkin cannot have any anti-Japanese animus, because she's Filipina.

On “Assuming Good Faith

We don't have any signs saying "gun-free zone".

On “Insufficient Arguments

Let me lay out a few arguments that I don’t find compelling in the gun debate. This is not an exhaustive list.

Non-rectangular state flags.

On “The Doomsday Provision

Or those who exercise them responsibly, in ways that don't disrespect our troops or let the terrorists win.

And I have no problem taking this dufus's guns away.

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Shooting the Brooks Brothers rioters might well have had a salutary effect.

On “A Liberal Reconsiders Gun Control

Or connect a hose to the horse's "exhaust pipe".

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As long as we can find friendly government to arm us, of course. Are you thinking Russia or Saudi Arabia?

On “Gunaholics Anonymous

All breeches open when possible.

No wonder you feel naked.

On “I got nothing – but Friedersdorf does

And the goalkeepers. I keep picturing them with no teeth.

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If he considers "the leftist media" and Nazis equivalent, the place he's stuck is far from the middle.

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The sham trials at Guantanamo weren't even legitimate military tribunals, what with large amounts of the "evidence" having been obtained by torture.

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Yeah. I saw that, and as a Paul staffer, Rhodes has bona fides for good faith about this stuff. But it'll be interesting to see what happens to his movement under the next Republican administration. Anecdotal evidence suggests that there's a lot more pushback from the military about alleged illegal orders when the Democrats are in power.

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They're upset that the executive branch has claimed the power to classify American citizens as enemy combatants, detain them indefinitely, and try them before military tribunals.

Oath Keepers was founded in 2009

Uh-huh.

On “2017

A good number of them are stupid enough to catch themselves.

And a good thing too, but eventually one won't be that stupid, or will be lucky (which is always better than smart.)

On “When Worlds Collide

The funny thing is that the NFL does have socialistic features, what with all the TV revenue being shared, a percentage of the profits being guaranteed to the players, and there being rules to prevent any of the teams from out-competing the others by too much (the salary cap, the limit on roster sizes, the draft, etc.) But that has nothing to do with what Baibn's complaining about.

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