Recent content by Brad Sallows

Conservatives care about a lot of things, but don't agree they are things in which government ought to be involved, irrespective of resources.

They will lern to kode.

...in one particular problem domain. So was Michael Ignatieff.

Exactly. Demographics change. Schools not repurposed are often enough demolished.

Rex was in a certain class of commentator, in which I include Christopher Hitchens - people who politics and ideals I don't always share, but are always worth reading or listening.

Drum "opportunity cost" into those heathens.

The electors meet and each vote for a particular candidate. If there was literally no option but their pledged candidate, they would be completely unnecessary; just count the votes in each district (and have some mechanism for deciding who wins the 2 state-wide votes). Obviously they were...

It's still a bit puzzling. From the response: "The investigative team has reviewed all the materials in the containers that the privilege review team did not segregate as potentially attorney-client privileged. Of the Seized Evidence, thirteen boxes or containers contained documents with...

Usually when people say, "I'm willing to pay high/higher taxes", they mean "I'm willing for everyone to pay high/higher taxes". I doubt many gift cheques get written.

The bastards. That's only supposed to happen to company towns when the ore runs out.

Voters can write in names on ballots. Electors cannot, but they can vote for a candidate other than that to which they are pledged ("faithless electors"). Penalties for doing so, if any, vary between states. Persuading some electors to not cast their votes for Trump was one of the gambits...

That disposes of the mistaken point that it was released. It doesn't dispose of how the picture came to be.

Good catch. I shouldn't have assumed people would know I was talking about what wealthy, highly mobile people do when pressed.

That'll work, but not solely for that reason. People who leave the country and no longer report Canadian income will also help the average to fall.

"Home prices" is something for which all the parties are going to try to create a plank, while the simple fact is that the magnitude of the problem places it well outside anything the federal government can do with money. The single most powerful lever in federal hands is the number of people...