It is so incredibly sad that those who are in a position to do so are not doing a single thing besides exploiting the dismal conditions blacks have in this country. The politicians, hucksters, sports and music industries all gain such incredible amounts of power and wealth at the expense of entire generations. So indoctrinated have they become that they pray at the alter of the very people who keep them as their slaves and ignore or even detest those who would truly expect them to become their equal.

William F. Buckley, debating the issue of adding prescription drugs to Medicare coverage, posed the question to all seniors expecting such a benefit "Would you feel comfortable in going to your neighbor's home and insisting that they pay for your prescriptions?" If the illusion that the government is an entity of its own rather than the collective of your neighbors, your friends and your children then perhaps few would have the gumption to demand anything from the "government."

I guess this would be considered "radical" journalism? Drawing a comparison between a rather innocuous statement like "panties in a wad" and republicans to radical islam? Really? Although the GOP candidates for president do seem to be engaged in a circular shootout rather than demonstrating their own abilities and qualifications, I would say the GOP has more to fear from naive and over the top writers such as this. Don't ever watch Bill Maher for you have no evil on earth left to compare him to.

The airline instituted the fees because they circumvent raising ticket prices. As much as 35% of a ticket price is government taxes and airport fees. When increasing ticket prices the airlines only net from 60-70% of the increase. Baggage "fees" are not taxed like ticket prices so the airline receives all of the revenue. So in effect the result of the law would be to increase tax income and raise the overall cost of airline travel by 25-35%.

If you had created a society and your need for revenue required you to tax your citizens, logic would dictate that you would do it in a way that would minimize its effect on your nations productivity and competitiveness. With that prerequisite would you ever even consider taxing income (productivity)? If you wanted to encourage growth would you ever consider taxing savings? If however you viewed taxation as a means of controlling your citizens and their ability to amass wealth would you not impose a tax on their efforts and then create a scheme by which you would sell deference of those taxes to those willing to pay you? Would you not use your ability to tax as a means to influence behavior? Taxes have nothing to do with fairness.