Thus, on the second point, the nullifiers are wrong: states cannot impede federal enforcement of a federal law merely because the state deems it unconstitutional.
Of course, they may be wrong; states are scarcely always rational actors, and Islamic fundamentalism may be a more crusading faith than Communism ever was.
Don't get me wrong: states in the modern world have to worry about security for their representatives, and we ought to take all reasonable measures to ensure that our diplomats are adequately protected.
A potentially very important concomitant advantage of fusing the probability estimates from the 135-D system and the nine 15-D systems is that the fusion process may make the probability vectors less sparse, thereby reducing the risk that wrong states are being promoted.
The problem for the Democrats in terms of the Senate is that they live in the wrong states.
Franken said he paid the income tax in his state of residence, and he would seek retroactive credit for paying the taxes in the wrong states.
