The best solution is to have uniform federal regulation with no state laws.
The not as good solution is to have state regulation. Note this means companies will generally adopt policies nationally to meet the requirements of the big, restrictive states (California, etc)
The worst solution is the House approach which will ban state regulation accompanied by the status quo of no federal regulation.
Something many people here miss: UCSD is a selective institution. UC San Diego’s most recent published first-year acceptance rate is about 28.4% for fall 2025, based on 136,740 applicants and 38,846 admits. UCSD’s own admissions page also summarizes this as a 28% admit rate. The lousy students aren't even going to apply since they know they will be rejected. So we are not talking about an open enrollment institution where you would expect a significant number of students to need remedial math help; we are talking about the cream of the crop of California high school graduates many of which don't know high school math.
"Turning a whole lot of flights into energy and carbon-saving train trips is a huge benefit."
It's a question of what gets the most bang for the buck. Suppose you spent $230 billion on replacing fossil fuel with renewables for electricity generation, on switching to EVs from gasoline powered cars, on insulating houses? I think you get a lot more bang for the buck from these or lots of other activities.
In this case they were using very expensive munitions which go exactly where they were targeted to go; they were not using cheap, dump bombs which have a wide margin of error.
Natural resources aren't that important anymore. Look at Singapore with essentially no natural resources, but a high standard of living for example. And the U.S. has strong natural resources, but they represent a fairly small portion of the economy.
The battery plant was just to make batteries for EVs. The Trump administration has made clear it is anti-EV, so the Trump administration would not consider this a significant loss.
While companies will raise prices as much as they can, remember there are many competitive AI companies--so free market competition will keep prices in check.
The people getting MRIs are sicker than the general population so the facility should have people available to help getting people up after being scanned.
What I read elsewhere is that members of the committee serve a 4 year term. Since Biden's term was 4 years this means that all members' terms ran out sometime during Biden's term--so either new members were appointed by him or existing members were re-appointed by him.
Some of us don't want to have a dozen plus separate physical tokens (one for each of bank/credit card/tax, etc sites with sensitive financial information we have).
The key point is that it is REPORTED crime which is down. I think that every year fewer and fewer people are reporting crime--because overwhelmingly it is futile to do so--so only report if it is required to file an insurance claim or it is a major injury.
No. In rural areas dollar stores are the cheapest around. I guess you are not familiar with small town prices. In urban areas dollar stores are more expensive than Walmarts--but there is something to be said for getting in and out of a store in 5 minutes vs 20 minutes in a supercenter. But a Dollar General is still going to be cheaper than Walgreens.
No, DG customers can shop elsewhere. Everything they sell is available at Walmarts, supermarkets, convenience stores, hardware stores, drug stores, online, etc.
No, we are not thinking Elon will voluntarily leave; we are thinking Trump is very fickle and could easily dump him. Remember what happened to Steve Bannon in Trump's first administration?
Generally it's economic to install broadband in urban areas, but not in many rural areas--so the rural areas need to be subsidized--and rural areas are the least likely to be woke and/or socialist.
But sooner or later almost everyone uses the services of the federal government: so when there is a month additional delay in their VA medical appointment, a two month delay in getting an IRS tax refund check, a really lousy experience when they visit a National Park because of a lack of staff there, worse care in the Medicaid paid for nursing home for their grandmother, as well as a substantial increase in the cost of living because of tariffs: MAGA voters are going to get upset.