If you are going to quote the 2nd amendment, please get it right. As passed by the Congress: A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. As ratified by the States: A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. For anyone who doubts that gun ownership is a good thing, google "Kennesaw, GA guns"

Yes, does the term "identity theft" ring a bell?

Actually, it's more like 5-6% of the world's population.

>You can't be both stupid and diabolically clever at the same time---a harmless naif as well as the evil Antichrist. Doesn't fit. Make up your minds.<

Oh really? For 8 years GWB was both an imbecile and an "evil genius" manipulator of all the world's media, according to the Left. Doesn't fit. Make up your minds.

State has been infested with politically correct leftists for years. This is where many of those rabidly idealistic Poli Sci grads ended up one they graduated and couldn't get hired into real jobs for lack of skills.

Even Condi Rice couldn't do anything with them. State is supposed to promote the best interests of the United States, but mostly spends its time lecturing us on how insensitive we all are to the rest of the world. Fire the entire department and start over I say.

"While its certainly true that many loyal Republicans on the right side of the spectrum never warmed to John McCain, they most certainly rallied behind Sarah Palin. In fact, the McCain-Palin ticket nearly matched the Bush-Cheney ticket of 04 in drawing strong conservative support."

Nonsense! No one "warmed to" McCain, HE (the Democrat Lite) dragged down Sarah Palin. If SHE had been the nominee, she might well have won. Medved is still a Humphrey Democrat Lite. Must be because of living in Seattle.

" the main tenant of conservatism "

It's TENET, not tenant. Jeez, public schools...

>She always seems to have the ambivalence to ward compassion—hating it when exhibited by liberals, but...<

Compassion exhibited by liberals? Can you cite even one example of such an unlikely event? Or do you define such as when "liberals" extort money from regular, hard-working, overtaxed Americans and give it to worthless parasites who have been carefully defined as "victims" of evil capitalism?

Speaking as a former Brit, I can assure you that "conservative" has vastly different meanings in the UK and US. In the UK it is associated with the old, elitist, moneyed class, you know, people like the Kennedys, Rockefellers, and the like over here. Labour is traditionally solid left-wing, socialist, union-dominated, rather like the rest of the Democratic Party in the US. In short, the UK really has no equivalent of a true conservative - it's all socialistic. Either you're a John McCain Democrat-lite or an actual Democrat. The Thatcherites are all gone.

Whe I lived in Britain during Thatcher's years, I was a solid Labour voter (coming from a blue-collar family), but in my mature years, I have come to appreciate Thatcher's...

The ice caps on Mars have been shrinking for years. Is it because of all those Martians driving SUVs? Or could it possibly have something to do with the solar system's primary source of energy, the Sun?