Yes, people living on federal lands have voting representation in Congress because they claim a home state. They vote through that home state. It may be the state that contains the federal land they live on, or if that federal land is somewhere outside the country (Juan de Fuca Naval Base, for example) it is the state they claim as permanent residence. Congress also has the ability to assign voting representation to the DC residents to an adjoining state without creating a new state or realigning the lands with another state, simply by legislating it.

In no other case of statehood in this country has enabling legislation been tagged onto another bill. It's too serious, too involved to reasonably do so. This would set a...

Heh heh. You got it. ;}

Nothing changes where folks were born if the residential areas are annexed to neighboring states. None of these folks were born in the State of DC.

What is your source for saying Virginia doesn't want them and they don't want Maryland?

Let's see. You've created...how many states now? That's why you're sure it's so simple? I read the legislation that was enacted to create the northwest territories so they could be states. I read Alaska and Hawaii's legislation. It's no small thing, Bob! It deserves the attention it needs to happen successfully.

What makes you so sure a DC state would always be a Dem one? Up until 1930 blacks supported the Party of Lincoln, especially those in the east/northeast. There are no...

A region or territory that desires admittance as a state petitions Congress, who may then pass enabling legislation (which becomes part of the US Code). That legislation will include resolution of issues to meet Constitutional requirements, such as forming a representative government, and other concerns such as slavery once was, and functional issues such as monetary ones. When all requirements of the enabling legislation is met, including the people residing within the region voting 2/3 in favor of statehood, then Congress passes a bill recognizing the new state. Nothing in the Constitution precludes DC from statehood, but nothing authorizes it to do other than create a ten square mile seat of federal government. Writings from the...

4 articles on the California page tattling on Maria Shriver for using a cell phone while driving. What a fuss about nothing!

Truth is, most people stopped using their cell phones while driving right after the law passed, but a whole lot of them started texting while driving instead. So then the law was changed to include texting and a whole lot of folks went back to using their cell phones for calls when driving again.

It is an infraction to use your phone while driving. The fine is $20 the first offense and $50 for subsequent offenses. Except a lot of municipalities have tacked on their own fines now, and a first-time ticket can cost you over $800, depending where you're caught in the act.

All of this could...

Good comments. There were just enough kernels of truth scattered throughout that entire piece of propaganda to make it debatable...but not by elementary school children who will respond to the animation and the "I know what I'm talking about because I spent 10 years studying this" stance of Ms. Leonard. This is brainwashing, pure and simple. Get 'em while they're young!

At the same time these news folks 'get it' that only ONE job was created out of beaucoup bucks, they also manage to marginalize Carly Fiorina's challenge as no real threat!

Face it, recognize it, California! No matter WHAT idiocy Dems do, no matter how irresponsible and just plain stupid they act, they get a pass with the media. It's grassroots or bust.

Redistribution of wealth. A fantasy that never goes away!

FDR was convinced that there was no more money to be made anymore and that the wealthy needed to lose some and send it over to those who hadn't earned it themselves. First he tried deflation, which transferred wealth from the business sector to the consumer sector, but that backfired when jobs vanished. Then he re-implemented labor control boards to dictate what management AND labor could earn, but even more jobs vanished. Then he announced he would not provide government funds to any corporation that paid its top managers or executives more than $15,000 a year. Then campaign donations went away.
(Where's the ROFL smilie?)

1. Rush Limbaugh was dropped as a minority investor (like JLo and Fergie) from a group because he "is too controversial", according to David Checketts. He's not controversial because he's white, because he overcame a prescribed drug addiction in past years, or because he has gained and/or lost weight in the past. He's controversial because of his political beliefs and because of his expression of those beliefs on his radio program. This means that he is being denied the opportunity to invest in a legitimate financial transaction, supposedly open to any American, on the basis of his politics. NOT supposed to happen in America, no matter who he is!
2. Limbaugh's listening audience, at last count, was over 22 million, NOT over 10...

Easy. Two things:

1. The percentage of gainfully employed people in Wyoming far exceeds that of DC residents and
2. The level of government services offered is far less than that of DC. Nowhere near the need for taxes.