[xzins]

It's been a while since Pat's been right about anything, what with his tirades against people groups, but he's right about this one.

Poindexter had a new idea. The politicians were small minded.

Poindexter, a genius...of the hard-working variety, should have been left to his tinkering.

[steve-b]

True, the cheap moral posturing and piling-on was distasteful. Worse, it was damaging in that it reinforces the bureaucratic tendency to avoid rocking the boat lest you be singled out as the next target.

It was a bad idea that should have been shot down on its real flaws (see several posts on this thread) rather than simply hooted down by grandstanding politicians.

[Age of Reason]

It's been a while since Pat's been right about anything

From what I've heard of Pat, he's been more right about more things than any other public figure.

[Age of Reason]

he's right about this one

Despite our inverse appreciation of Pat's ideas, please see my post number 18, above, then please enlighten me as to why this terror futures market might be a good predictor.

(I'm not being sarcastic--I really want to understand what I am misssing about the thinking behind it).