I think that Liberals are "bullet-proof to reason." I see it endlessly within my circle of friends. Thr first tactic they try is to make the claim of false evidence. Where do those facts come from? They will then move on to the claim of falsification. "That information is incorrect or outdated." Asked then what the have to support that claim they will move on to a circular arguement. "They Just Are!" I then will give them dozens of other sources of support and they will try on the fallacy of the "half-truth', then usually demand that I fill an argument with infinite complexity and finally; they simply tell me to eff off. The just love to make bold claims and when asked to prove them simply try to get you to "prove the opposite" Few...

Do you self identify at a liberal? If so you need to understand that while you may 'feel' like you are having your day in the sun (an understandable 'belief' if you gather your information from the traditional news sources) you still represent a mere 20% of the American population of voting age. So instead of commenting via an ad hom attack you should first perhaps take a course in common literacy; so that one may somehow parse together what you are trying to say. In your second bit of education you should take a course in constructing an argument so as to avoid making simple errors in using logical fallacies in the stead of actual well constructed fact based discussions. In other-words; have a point. Cheers, Bloefeld Its too bad...

I'm not saying leave them alone. I am saying leave what goes on within the Arab world to the Arab world. If a President has good intelligence on some plot against the West, he has an obligation to kill everyone involved with extreme prejudice. Carter, Clinton, and Obama have many things in common but the most important one is that they are not men of action. In Arabia there is no better way to get zero respect than to be inactive in the sense that when an opportunity presents itself to sit around an ponder about it. Arabs and their alleged 'culture' required that Clinton leave Osama a smoking pile of fire on top of a ratty set of sandals. Instead of just trying to shoot Osama; Clinton would have been better off to have ordered in...

Democracy doesn't work? How about 100% of the time given well run and free elections. All successful systems of rule have succeeded when they provide the highest level of personal freedoms and the God given right to chuck the buggers out on their butts when they need to be. None of your solutions (presumably concerning Libya) have any chance of success. By their nature tribal societies cannot advance to the point where they are less than failed states. So leave them alone, buy what they have to sell, sell whatever they will buy and stay away from their internal politics. Cheers, Bloefeld Your alternatives

Nice blather. Small understanding of Arabian history. Gadhafi's regime at 40 is more of a miracle than one can imaging. The West spends a lot of time hand-wringing about the Middle East with next to zero understanding of what the possible outcomes are. There is no outcome from which peace is a center piece. There is no outcome that is pro-anything. The Arab mindset is one based on hatred of everyone but any individual Arab. He hates his family only slightly less than he hates his clan and he hates his tribe than he hates the rest of the world. The reality is that the average Arab gives little thought to his religion unless he can turn it into a personal gain. His world is one controlled by fate, his life's outcome is preordained...

The intellectual poverty of the American union movement is something indeed to behold. I have seen this as an endless feature of political life for most of my 56 odd year, yet I live in hope that there will eventually be some connection between a leftists mouth and his ear. There is nothing that proves the insensitivity of a person than cognitive dissonance; the American left can hold so many conflicting opinions at one time that no one would be complaining if this somehow became productive work product.

I was wondering when someone was going to bring this up. And of course it would be Michael Reagan who would. I'm Canadian and I vividly recall when Federal Civil Servants as well as workers in Crown Corporations were given the right to collective bargaining including strike. My father said this legislation would prove the downfall of Canada (Health Care was not yet invented up here). The old Man was correct. Instantly everything from rail service, the post office and every government department went on strike for higher wages and benefits that make auto workers drool. Now, if we paid our senior civil servants what they were worth in industry we could save the equivalent of 190 billion per year. Thats just the executive guys. Our...

All labour problems are the result of weak management. The unions are doing their job properly and well. The governments of Wisconsin are to blame. So, now American's have tangible evidence that Unions will milk the cow until there is no cheese to be had (small nod to Wisconsin's most famous industry). In an interview on O'Reilly last night I watched a call in show host yell about the cause of the problem being a shortage of industrial jobs because investors moved plants away from Wisconsin. Well duh! Who would want to invest in a state whose government gives over too much power to unions. Spending hundreds of millions on plant and equipment is a major risk for management to make with their shareholders money. No corporate management...

Does the White House have a coherent plan for anything?

Does the White House have a coherent plan for anything?