![Over at the Huffington Post, there was an article indicating how many people are just one emergency away from facing financial disaster (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/30/financial-emergency-report_n_2576326.html?utm_hp_ref=business). I was recently asked what my take […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Financial_Disaster-300x207-115x115.jpg "Boutwell’s take on…Financial Disaster.")
![There are many ways to measure progress. Are you making more? Are you putting more cash in your pocket? Do you feel better about yourself? Are you sleeping more? Do […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/girl-better-off-115x115.jpg "Are you better off than your grandparents?")
![First and foremost, taxation is complicated. Multistate corporate taxation is even more complicated. We are being asked to consider a very complicated proposition in a few weeks and hopefully those […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Prop-39-Pic1-115x115.jpg "Boutwell on Prop 39…what the heck is apportionment anyways?")
![. We welcome to the Orange Juice Blog our new tax and finance expert who previously commented under the awkward handle TJLocalSA, but will henceforth write under the handle “BOUTWELL,” […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Romney-Obama-laughing-115x115.jpg "A Tale of Two Tax Worlds: Obama’s and Romney’s.")
So, good thing he was killed, you're saying?
Daniel DID do drugs. Report below shows he had METH in his system and an extensive criminal history that included…
Greg, You can think what you want. Criminals, illegal immigration and neighboring countries can all erode countries sovereignty. But war…
My definition is ... irrelevant to this discussion, counselor. (I'd look up case law if I needed one.) You're the…
Wait what is your definition of sovereign nation? And I don’t think you understand what independence is. Entering into treaties…
But maybe you did mean (1) "Completely independent" and (2) "authority over its borders" as two separate things. In that…
I'll presume that you meant to write: "Completely independent authority over its borders." OK, by that definition, is the USA…
Completely independent and authority over its borders. That sounds about right. Not wrapped in tin foil.
What exactly do you think that the word "sovereign" means? Maybe we're getting to the root of the problem here.
From the "Fear and Loathing / Closer to the Edge" substack blog https://closertotheedge.substack.com/p/what-else-could-a-russian-asset-possibly : Senator Jeff Merkley walked into the…