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1. about 2 hours ago on Michael Ramirez

   Actually, if the price were lower (like the Chinese EVs that sell well in Europe) and once the charging infrastructure is built out, there are many people who would buy EVs. I see Teslas, Rivian trucks and SUVs, and even some by VW, Mercedes, and Kia all over OKC. The well-heeled early adopters have already bought them, the rest are waiting for better pricing.

2. about 2 hours ago on Clay Jones

   Abortion was morphed by right-wing evangelicals into a device for use to garner support for themselves by righteous outrage.

3. about 7 hours ago on Doonesbury

   I got a list of my class ten years in and was surprised to see how many were already deceased (in our late 20s!)

4. about 7 hours ago on Clay Jones

   The conundrum for the MSM is that Trump is a showman first and foremost and it’s hard to cover him without giving him lots of free publicity…. but they can’t NOT cover him either.

5. about 7 hours ago on Matt Davies

   Grants pay for research, not salaries, usually the researcher is a professor with a set salary from the institution. And science is pretty scrupulous about not allowing those providing funding to affect outcomes.

   Opposition folks who pull in millions? The titans of the oil/gas industry come to mind. And THEIR industry, which makes millions for them is subsidized by the US government too.

6. about 8 hours ago on Clay Jones

   The problem is that the crazies have always wanted the things they’re pushing hard for but despaired of ever getting them. With the advent first of Sarah Palin, crazy as she is/was, and then Trump, they now think their goals are in sight. They are not the majority of the electorate but have gotten pretty good at manipulating things so they win anyway.

7. about 9 hours ago on John Deering

   You might accuse him of being ineffective; I wish he had appointed an INDEPENDENT PROSECUTOR much sooner. Corruption is in the eye of the beholder, and I see at least two totally corrupt members of SCOTUS, willing to accept expensive gifts and not recusing themselves when their interests or their family’s are involved.

   Being AG is a totally different job from SCOTUS justice; you have no idea what kind he would have made, but he would have respected stare decisis, unlike the current bunch.

8. about 9 hours ago on Clay Jones

   The Catholic Church has always had this dichotomy, though. Those that concentrate on the “thou shalt nots” and those that concentrate on peace and social justice. I remember forty years ago that type of Catholic being warned not to align themselves with the Evangelical right due to opposition to abortion, because the Evangelicals stand for the opposite of a lot of Catholic teaching.

9. about 9 hours ago on Matt Davies

   I will repeat. Scientists are paid a professor’s salary, maybe the low six figures. the guys that oppose climate science are often paid millions upon millions per year, and have a vested interest in climate science being not true, although as the climate continues to change their costs will rise astronomically. Sorry, nobody is getting rich doing climate research; and if the money disappeared there would be other things to research, also at a professor’s salary.

10. about 10 hours ago on John Deering

    I think you mean Garland. If he hadn’t been confirmed, Obama would have had another shot at nominating somebody. Mitch took and awful chance; if Hillary had won, she might have nominated someone much less to Republican liking.