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Comment on Rick Perry's Epic Lying Could Make Him the Next President

WW resident — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 21:29:02 GMT

I used to enjoy this site very much. With all this endless yammering above, not so much. *yawn*

Comment on The Tea Party, the debt ceiling, and white Southern extremism

JimG — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 21:07:32 GMT

I agree 100% - lets start with the biggest waist of money that we have - the War Department - then we'll move on to the corporate kick backs and tax give aways - right there Capin?

Comment on The War on Paul Krugman’s 9/11 Blog Post

Michael B — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 03:02:37 GMT

Krugman's economics and his political views have been thoroughly discredited in recent years. Other than the extreme wingnuts on the left, most people find his most recent comments wholly inaccurate and repugnant.

He is no better than the terrorists we queue for every day. I can't wait until next year when we can all push these irrational thugs back into the closet for another generation.

Comment on The War on Paul Krugman’s 9/11 Blog Post

anonymous — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 20:37:38 GMT

Someone who agrees with Krugman, though somewhat more vulgarly (NSFW):
http://youtu.be/nAMlF3KO1vs

Comment on Florida Tea Party Racism

Jerry — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 12:19:31 GMT

I became a racist when I seen people vote for Obama because he is black. I did not want to be left out of the racist talk. I will not vote for him again ether because he lied. He did not spread Soros, Oprah or Buffet's money around.

Comment on The Tea Party, the debt ceiling, and white Southern extremism

Capt. Chuck Morton — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 16:02:01 GMT

What the demographic graph shows me is that the Northeast is just out of touch.

You might find its a urban - rural issue. Rural folks tend to be more conservative in their spending and use less credit for "toys".

We country types are fiscal conservatives and want our money to be spent responsibly.

The federal government needs to go on a cash basis -- if they don't have the money they don't spend it.

It looks like a 40% reduction in spending in is order, pronto! Of course we could begin by eliminationg the Dept of Homeland Security which was just another layer of bureaucracy that does nothing. The TSA and Coast Guard had it covered.

Speaking of ineficient departments: The Dept of Education can Dept. of energy could go - they do nothing except soak up money either.

Comment on Don't Kill the Lawyers...Kill the Law Schools

Dennis Purdy — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 12:25:45 GMT

No, kill the lawyers, and the laws. Laws only exist to give government tools to be arbitrary

Comment on Off Balance

Mike Zemack — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 13:59:21 GMT

A Balanced Budget Amendment is indeed a bad idea. As Samuelson writes over at the Washington Post: “The Constitution is the repository of the nation’s basic political principles, …not a handbook for the day-to-day operations of government.” And no discussion of the constitution is complete outside of the context of the philosophical principles that form the original constitution’s foundation. Those principles are laid out in the Declaration of Independence, this nation’s philosophical blueprint.

The principles of unalienable individual rights and a government whose sole purpose is to protect those rights is the frame of reference upon which all aspects of the constitution must be considered. Rights are sanctions to freedom of action in a social context, not an automatic claim to unearned benefits. The freedom of action that rights convey also defines the limits of that freedom. Since rights are unalienable and held equally by all people at all times, each individual is free to act only so long as he respects and refrains from violating the same rights of others. Equally important, the principle of individual rights defines the limits of government’s power – a broad limitation indeed. Despite some imperfections and contradictions it contains, the original constitution was mostly true to its fundamental principles.

It’s interesting that Kendall and Lithwick sneak in Chief Justice John Marshall's quote that our constitution is a document that may be “adapted to the various crises of human affairs”. The “Living Constitution” doctrine attempts to whitewash our founding principles out of existence, a la “1984”, and has done far more to undermine our constitution than anything the Republicans have proposed. That paved the way for the ongoing transition of America from a constitutionally limited republic to a democracy. But the Founders understood majority rule to be severely limited, because democracy unconstrained by the principle of individual rights is another form of totalitarian tyranny. Redefining America as a democracy is the Progressives’ real intend. Kendall and Lithwick take the right position for the wrong reasons. They oppose the BBA not to preserve the constitution but because they fear it “would remove huge swaths of lawmaking power from majority rule and arbitrarily limit the size of government to a level not seen since the 1960s. Under the guise of promoting fiscal responsibility, we would be creating a government that could not govern.” To “govern”, in the Progressives concept, means to dictate.

I agree that the Founders probably would not have approved of the BBA. But they would have been horrified at the Progressives’ view of the constitution as a document devoid of the very principles that formed the basis for their achievement in creating this country.

Comment on Off Balance

Capt Chuck Morton — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 20:04:21 GMT

There is a lot of bull going around from the looks of the rhetoric being spread. Who do you think is buying our debt? It's mostly people who do not like us.

Do you think China for instance would fund us in a conflict where they were backing the other side as in Korea and Viet Nam? -- I don't think so.

Does anyone remember WAR BONDS? I do, I remember saving a dime a week in grade school to buy bonds.

A balanced budget amendment can have an exception for a DECLARED war.
We are deep in debt and what we are doing is the equivalent of an individual asking the credit card company to raise their credit limit because they can't make the payments.

No one said it would be easy, but we MUST get our financial house in order or we will be taken over by our creditors.

We have enough income to carry on the government - we don't have the money to expand it. We need to cut the fat from the budget we have so that we obtain a balance between income and expenses.

A balanced budget is the target, but a balanced financial practice is something else; it's the result at the end of the year.

One place we can start is to quit using food products to make fuel -- It is not efficient to make ethanol from corn; it is a net energy loss and causes other prices (food, clothing) to go up as well. We need to look at energy sources we have here: coal, natural gas,oil shale, hydroelectric potential. We restrict offshore drilling, but subsidize other countries who do. Does that make any sense?

One final shot -- If the President decides not to pay the military, veterans benefits or social security I hope he does not pay himself either. I do get Social security, but if it stops I won't be surprised. I never thought there would be anything there anyway. Ask any Native American, we used to call them Indians, about the U.S. government and it's promises. The Government has lied to them for years; why would anyone expect them to keep a promise to us?

Does anyone recognize this? "When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation." It was penned by Thomas Jefferson and is the first part of the Declaration of Independence.

Our Government must be honest and truthful or be overthrown!

Chuck Morton

Comment on Casey Anthony case: Nancy Grace's coverage of murder trial leads to charges of 'media assassination'

JimG — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 13:23:29 GMT

Well said Kent - I also heard Lawson Lamar, the States Attorney for that district, essentially say the same thing that Mason did - that the media circus that sprung from the talking heads and scandal sheets costs the taxpayers of Florida a fortune and did not contribute to cause of justice - as far as Nancy Grace, she was run out of Georgia for her numerous misconduct episodes as a prosecutor in Atlanta - CNN needs to do the same thing - but then again, Faux News would pick her up in a minute....