Wrong, the government prints bonds. The Federal Reserve (which is neither federal or a reserve) buys those bonds. They then print Federal Reserve Notes, which is the bills in your wallet. The government then has to pay back the Federal Reserve for buying those bonds, with interest. Even though the Federal Reserve sells those bonds to other countries who hope to make money by us paying the interest.

It would stop it this time, but not teach them anything.

They may not be the first, but they started fighting it. Which can be describe as "starting the fight"

If one seeks asylum the in U.S. they need to come in through a port of entry, not come across the Arizona desert. That makes them an illegal immigrant.

Someone should research octane levels too. It's possible they were lower back then, but I'm lazy and don't care.

tl:dr It may be a good source, but it creates laziness in that students don't know how to research things properly and think the first source they find is the best or only one available.

On another note (not that I in anyway condone what they did) if she kept her mouth shut, the internship likely would have looked good on a resume.

If Batman can make an Ironman like suit to fight Superman, he can make one to withstand lightning easy enough, so like you said; if he has prep time it could turn out pretty even.

Yep, I had a similar (if simpler idea), what she needs is instructions.

Yep, there's a (at least one) type of spider that can use web to make a parachute type thing to float on the wind.