rpm - Back in my day, we formerly "nice" girls decided that Free Love meant that now "nice" girls could behave like s***s, would pay for the contraceptives, the abortions, and dinner? - you mean, like a date? Free Love and feminism was and has been the biggest sexual bonanza for male college students of all time. And you college hippie guys from the 60s and 70s know I speak the truth. We behaved like the s word and whoever thought it would be this damaging to women? Where have all the flowers gone?

Are you telling me that the word, s***, will destroy the conservative movement? And Townhall just made me edit the word. Amazing.

My husband is a red-dotter, for sure. I would have to accept a green dot. Too long to explain. But, to your point, why is the alternative to the death penalty - "supporting convicted killers in comfort". Why is that my only option? My convicted murderer would await his/her death : isolated, 2,000 calories of nutrient, water, cart, toilet, window, visit by clergy member of choice. Sustained life with possibility of salvation. Use my SS check.

First, thanks for taking on Bob Beckel. My recollection is that one of the consistent themes of childhood is the following conversation between parent and child (see if you remember): child (me): "Why can't I have a new bike? Everybody else has a new bike except me. It isn't fair." Mom:"What if everybody else was jumping off a cliff? Would you jump off a cliff?" I'm not sure that I really understood the whole thing back then except that "jumping off a cliff" meant the answer was, 'NO'. I think I gradually learned that I couldn't have or do everything that my friend or the (untrue) "everybody else" might have or be allowed to do. The insistence that fairness - having what everybody else has - was not what life was all about.

I watch my 89 year old mother spend most of her existence struggling to visit doctors and her specialists day after day. Many days, I ask if she would like me to visit and she tells me that this week, she has appts Monday, Tuesday, ... Perhaps, she wants to exist forever; however, she is no longer living. I miss her. I am 58 and praying I will not ever spend my life merely trying to extend it- and asking others to pay the expenses for this folly. Thank you for your post. Healthcare is no substitute for living.

Reading the comments. Haven't been on TH in awhile. Has the site been taken over? Is this a tactic to thwart conservative discussion on TH? Too bad. I won't bother with my comment on Sowell's wisdom. But, wish he would run for office.

Teach children to develop their talents and skills recognizing that they are blessed with these gifts and to use them wisely.

Lovely. Thank you.

I'm thankful that my parents expected us to accept whatever my mother served us. I was not required to eat the leg of lamb, or the spanish rice. However, I was required to eat whatever portion of the meal I accepted, not complain (rude) and hope for a more acceptable meal the next night. There are MANY foods I do not like. When the guests at the home for homeless families offers me some of their food - like the Tilapia which is fried complete with fins and eyeballs - I take a portion, eat it, ask these homeless Kenyans about food prep in Kenya, native spices, whatever I can think of to keep my mind off of the eyeballs. This sounds like I'm really, really being self-righteous - I apologize for that. I'm really suggesting that if...

Thank you for describing the heroism of a war so little understood. The Max Hastings book is excellent. I have read and re-read several books on the Korean War. Perhaps it would also be noteworthy to understand WHY the US forces were caught near the Yalu River border so ill-prepared for the onslaught. It sheds some light on the critical importance of strong, attentive, involved leadership from the CIC. It was not there when MacArthur was allowed to land at Inchon and without regard for the realities of the conditions (weather, terrain) or the intelligence available of Chinese involvement/threat - sent the forces North to attain His (and I don't mean God) Glory. Truman finally found the cojones to remove MacArthur after HE had...