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I am having a hard time time following along. Are you saying that the election was rigged or wasn't rigged?

That it WAS rigged, but only so Trump would win? That it was rigged and Trump won anyways?

What is your actual position on this?

I thought Stein's actions unfathomable and her actions silly. But at this point, I'm in favor of a recount to clarify that the system isn't corrupt in the manner Trump and those around him (or as some nutcases on the left) have been claiming (noting these are not even remotely equivalent).

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Both are deeply invested in christian educational goals. Both are influential political activists in the GOP.

So?

I don't think they would be the first or the last. Are you saying that these qualifications would make them some how unable to perform their jobs?

And I ought to add, as a side matter, that I definitely wish to see a thorough investigation of Russian (or other) attempts to influence this election through hacking and production of propaganda for broad distribution.

Republicans are deeply concerned about ethics in government and the vast potential for corruption stemming from conflicts of interest. We know this because of the acute worries they expressed over how these issues could have cast a shadow over a Hillary Clinton presidency.

“If Hillary Clinton wins this election and they don’t shut down the Clinton Foundation and come clean with all of its past activities, then there’s no telling the kind of corruption that you might see out of the Clinton White House,” Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) told conservative talk show host Hugh Hewitt.

Presumably Cotton will take the lead in advising Donald Trump to “shut down” his business activities and “come clean” on what came before. Surely Cotton wants to be consistent.

The same must be true of Reince Priebus, the Republican National Committee chair whom Trump tapped as his chief of staff. “When that 3 a.m. phone call comes, Americans deserve to have a president on the line who is not compromised by foreign donations,” Priebus said earnestly in a statement on Aug. 18.

Priebus, you would think, believes this even more strongly about a president whose enterprises might reap direct profits for himself or members of his family from foreign businesses or governments. Priebus must thus be hard at work right now on a plan for Trump to sell off his assets.

LaPierre pledged to go after the “tyrannical erosion of gun rights” in the relatively small number of states with very strict gun control laws, such as New York and California. He assailed their “deceitful web of gun bans, ammo bans, magazine bans, exorbitant fees, and taxes and registration schemes”.

The NRA’s priority is a federal law that would make gun-carrying permits issued in one state valid across the country, which would make carrying a concealed firearm across the country as easy as driving your car across state lines.

This federal national reciprocity law, which Trump has already endorsed, would essentially gut existing local restrictions on carrying guns in public, and would mean that tourists from other states could soon carry their guns around New York City

To put this another way, LaPierre wants to deny local constituencies of citizens the right and opportunity to establish their own laws...

To put this another way, LaPierre wants to deny local constituencies of citizens the right and opportunity to establish their own laws on weapons within their own communities. He wishes a statist regime across the US. Trump will almost certainly acquiesce given his political need to keep this interest group appeased.

What you fail to understand is if this case prevails we won't need a national reciprocity law for gun permits... Because you won't need a gun permit.

It’s going to be very tempting for most of the nation to celebrate such an affirmation of states rights, but it’s also important to realize that as the Supreme Court strikes down federal powers to pass gun laws, it simultaneously places those powers in the hands of state governments, and not all state governments were smart enough to mirror the natural right to bear arms reflected in the Second Amendment.