Ed Schultz is a hysterical partisan; no question about it. But what happened to Diane Sawyer? She started off as a relatively moderate figure, a former staffer in the Nixon administration. Did New York City finally get to her? The social pressures of being at one of the Big Three?

It's not accurate to say that Fox News has "hardly" mentioned the election. Greta van Susteren (who is from Wisconsin herself) has given enormous coverage to it, and I have seen segments on it on both O'Reilly and Hannity. And the conservative web fundraisers hit my email ten or more times a day urging me to send them money. (I'm not sure how much those fundraisers actually ever send to the campaigns.) But there's no question that unions have thrown enormous weight around for the Democrats. This could, however, be a last hurrah for the unions in Wisconsin. They have initiated one recall after another in an effort to undo the 2010 elections. The public has to be getting sick of it, and they know who's filing these recalls.

Goonishness is acceptable to the Left as long as it serves SOCIAL JUSTICE. That goal excuses every kind of lying, cheating, intimidation, censorship, extortion, and whatever it takes. That view of social justice is not new; it guided another country from 1917 to 1991.

"If we vote on it, it will go down." Well, it CAN'T pass if you don't vote on it. If you really believe in the Simpson-Bowles commission's recommendations, put it on the floor, and see who opposes it. Anyone voting "No" will show that eliminating the deficit is not his priority. I think what this is about isn't that it wouldn't pass on a floor vote. I think it's about a majority of his party's caucus opposing it, and he doesn't want to embarrass them, and the president, in an election year.

The largest category may well become "multiracial." On the other hand, given the amount of white that is already in the "nonwhite" mix--light-skinned black people, white or near-white Hispanics, American Indians that are already only one quarter Indians, Eurasians, what you may see is an apparent growth in the "white" population. What is the race of Mariah Carey or Freddie Prinze, Jr.?

If he loses Arizona, then his best prospects for picking something up in its place would probably be Wisconsin and New Hampshire.

Of the states Obama carried in 2008, there are two that he will probably lose in 2012--Indiana and North Carolina. Additionally, there's a fairly strong chance that he will lose Virginia and Iowa. He will also not get that one electoral vote in Nebraska he got last time. After that, it gets harder. He barely took Ohio last time; even the slightest slip in his strength there, and he loses it. The best prospect after that is Florida. Polls show that dead-even. Win that and the other states I've mentioned up to now, and Romney wins. Against that, Romney could lose Arizona, which McCain won, largely on the basis of being a favorite son, but with a large Hispanic population that might vote as a bloc for Obama. Then he needs something else

SSDI isn't the program that completely eliminates people from the workforce. On SSDI, one can have some employment, and there is provision by which one doesn't lose benefits immediately upon return to the workforce. It is SSI on which one can't work at all without losing one's benefits.

I have no problem with the use of a drone to kill Al-Awlaki. He was at war with us, directing attacks on us. In modern wars, our enemies have been no respecters of international boundaries, going back to the North Vietnamese attacking us and then retreating into neutral Cambodia. Basically, they play hide-and-seek with us. They come out, hit us, then run into another country, crowing, My goal, 1-2-3! You have to hit them where they are. This is not like when Shelby's brigade, at the end of the Civil War, crossed the Rio Grande into Mexico. They were not dodging into Mexico as a shelter from which they could hit us again. When they crossed into Mexico, they were done.

There is no administration right now. There are the politicians and their hired shills and thugs. These people are a disgrace; we have to get them out this November, and the differences of opinion among those who are agreed on that one point should not obscure this.