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Sen. Rand Paul and TSA: It's Personal Now (almost sounds like the title to a movie, doesn't it)...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...9uLQ_blog.html

First, some context... Hot on the heels of 'the Rand Paul Incident' today where Rand was demanded of (which he utterly rejected and was ultimately detained for) a full body search and pat-down by the TSA due to an 'anomaly' in his scan (personally, ...

Final summation response:

So we have addressed quickly the entie list. Here's suggestion for debate...don't spout HUGE lists of things as facts without understanding that most of what you said violates our Constitution, are stereotypes with little or no reason to be generalized, and are just flawed premises based on informa logical fallacies like "begging the question".

Try backing up each argument one at a time instead of listing them exhaustively in order ...

Respnses continued:

21. See #1, and also I thought unions fought corporate greed? Why then are MOST union members now public sector? Isn't this extorting taxpayers, not greedy corporations? And since as I stated earlier unions as percentage of the USA workforce declined while real total standards of living rose, we can eliminate them as the cause for standards of living rising. They went from 32% of the economy to less than 12%, and yet standards of living rose as fast as these unions ...

Responses continued:
11. You say "unlimited" which ignores harm and fraud that should be illegal under property rights...so logically there is a limit to those things. And btw, why were there deep wells offshore? I've researched this and it turns out there were fines put in place that encouraged drilling to occur farther offshore (by accident, was not the intention of the regulation), and there were refusals by BP and other companies to drill too deep until the government gave them ...

My response:

1. is not in the 18 enumertaed powers (I'll refer to this answer from now on as "same as 1"), and is therefore only Constitutional, regardless of what the same Court that held up Dred Scott says, if you pass an Amendment allowing it, which you are welcome to do.

2. Legislation can't fix the problem, so you begged the question, an informal logical fallacy. The central bank caused the artifical boom that led to the inevitable bust, and so the only ...