It certainly has created a bitter and divided population, but to this point I don't know if state sanctioned abortion has been a bargaining chip in any serious political negotiation.

You haven't heard the screaming about the right needing to "compromise"?

It's not sufficient for the left to have won the war in Roe v Wade, wherein next to nothing can be done to legally limit abortions.

No. The left now wants the right to abandon any mention of the word abortion. They want the right to fully accept and celebrate the right of a mother to kill her baby. And if we don't embrace it wholly and completely, we are the out-of-touch radical Christians who are on par in their minds with radical Islamists.

It kinda sounded like the guy wanted to make the point about capital gains taxes, but confused it with general income taxes...

In any case, fuck Stuart Varney.  He's a Hannity or a Limbaugh with a cool accent.

Why, because Varney puts forth a logical argument that can't be refuted by a liberal?

Boo fucking hoo. 

Fortunately, your lens for examining the Constitution is your own, and not anyone else's, especially anyone who might count like a federal appellate judge.  The SCOTUS just unanimously upheld the right to self-defense of a woman who was arrested for carrying a Taser to protect herself.  Had they used your lens exclusively, I am sure that the 2nd Amendment would limit our protection to carrying flintlocks.  Your view is entirely unworkable, but everyone is entitled to live in their own fantasy world as long as they don't hurt anyone else.

I haven't taken a survey of states that have codified much of common law, but California is one, represented about 12% of the country's population.  Not that it would matter, as the Constitution bars using the instruments of state from enforcing the common law as well, when it runs contrary to the Constitution.

No, an Originalist would not limit "arms" to flintlocks.  That makes you sound more like a lame anti-gun activist than a lawyer.

On the other hand, four liberal justices would have voted that the right of THE PEOPLE to keep and bear arms is not an individual right, so perhaps you're just in good liberal activist company.

the Wave with Raul Castro.

http://www.redstate.com/streiff/2016/03/22/brussels-attack-obama-wave-raul-castro/

I've got nothin'.

It sounds like you're saying we would give Cuba so much money that they would start giving money to Venzuela and other countries?   I hope that's not what you're saying.

But again, I suspect they won't have a dictator more than just another couple of years.

Well, I am concerned about that. What do you think Iran is doing with their $150 billion. Making plow shares and alleviating poverty?

But I am also concerned with increased trade with Cuba. Trade generates capital. Where will that capital go?  To "the people"?  Not a chance. It will go to the regime. And what will they do with it? 

There is no such thing as a constitutional ideologue.    Cruz certainly is not one.  Scalia wasn't either.  Nobody grows up being taught right from wrong based on just the Constitution.

Scalia used original intent as the handiest way to support his reactionary views.  I actually think that the court needed that input, even though Scalia was hewing true to his Italian Catholic upbringing.  That is why we don't just have just one justice.  I like that we have liberals on the court too.  As long as they all are very, very loath to override previous precedents and make their decisions as narrow as possible.

Scalia had "reactionary views"?  Such as?

Oh brilliant!! So, she'll just drop the kid off at the free daycare center and go and take her ignorant ass that barely can make a proper sentence, with no skills whatsoever over to all the local employers that will no doubt be thrilled to have her join their working team.

How many ignorant, single moms with poor work habits have you hired? I personally avoid them. Even McDonalds has standards.

Then you know what?  Life is going to suck. At least until such time as they learn this thing called a "work ethic" is something that is needed to exist in this world.

But until people stop coddling and making excuses for such people, nothing will change, and the cycle continues.

Being born poor is not a life choice.

Being addicted to government handouts, and refusing to work for less than the government freebies, is a life choice.