The Obama cabinet is the only place you can find more "zeroes" than the national debt!

I don't know where you live, but I must respectfully disagree with your statements about Rick Perry's lack of support by the TEA Party. (I personally know a number of TEA Party supporters that did volunteer work for his last gubernatorial campaign.) Also, as I was physically present at the 1st Austin TEA Party rally (at the noon hour outside City Hall), I can honestly say that the Governor was supporting the TEA cause in its infancy. He spoke with passion and conviction about: 1) the very negative effects of overspending by the Washington bureaucrats; and, 2) the superior right of the states' to self determination under the 10th Am. to the U.S. Constitution in areas NOT reserved to the federal goverment, nor prohibited to the states.

William: I was going to make very similar comments regarding this article by Ms. Malkin, but your post made it unnecessary. Gov. Perry realized that he made a mistake, assumed ownership of it, and apologized. I appreciate his candor; and, I accept his statements on this old news issue.

The truly sad part about SJL is that the huge "minority majority" in her Houston district continue to re-elect her. Why, because they suffer from an EDS epidemic (i.e., "Entitlement Derangement Syndrome"); and she promises to keep their welfare checks coming.

“Let’s put this in perspective: With the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) now projecting a federal budget deficit this year of $1.5 trillion, Mr. Obama is on course to add as much debt in one term as all 43 previous presidents combined. Not surprisingly, the rating agency Standard & Poor’s is warning of a Treasury downgrade.” -- Michael J. Boskin, Stanford University Professor of Economics, Hoover Institution Senior Fellow But noooo, all of the American people who oppose Obama's continuing efforts to tax and spend this nation into an abyss from which our grandchildren will never escape are just doing so because he is half black! How ignorant and devisive (and racist) can one woman be? SJL is a disgrace to her race and to this nation.

Maybe "irrelevant" was a poor choice of words. "Unscrupulous" and "destructive" would have been more appropriate...sort of like Jim Jones. However, Lon, you have been overserved the "Kool-Aid." “The danger to America is not Barack Obama, but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the Presidency. It will be far easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their president. The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails America. Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their...

No one likes the possibility of a state actually declaring bankruptcy, but that option would appear to be the best and only reasonable solution to California's budget crisis.

As that state has one of the most rapidly declining tax bases combined with one of the largest welfare and unionized bureaucracies, it would logically follow that their current situation is completely unsustainable...even via substantially reduced spending.

Bankruptcy laws were created for a reason...to enable failing businesses and corporations to "start over" with a better business plan while relieving themselves of crippling debt via a managable repayment plan.

Just think, bankruptcy would permit cancelation of all those overbloated union...

One issue that has not been addressed involves what I call "donor fatigue." In recent years, there has obviously been an incredible proliferation of conservative issue groups that are undoubtably trading donor/solicitation mail lists; and this has resulted in a mailbox full of emotional pleas for contributions for their particular area of concern...on a daily basis. And heaven help you if you accidently get an aka-type name also at the same address (like William and Bill Whatever @ a single address) on their list. Then your mail volume doubles.

I have tried repeatedly to respond politely by mail and request removal of my address from over 40 such groups; however, none of them seem to have a phone number on their...

Abortion is NOT “healthcare!” (If you could ask the opinion of the party affected most by the decision, there is no doubt that the poll results would overwhelmingly favor continuing the pregnancy.)

There are millions of Americans who do NOT want to become “accessories before the fact” and financiers for a program that terminates innocent, healthy animated, breathing, beating-heart humans. Even those who favor a woman’s choice to undergo an first-term, “pre-viability” procedure do NOT want the government (i.e., OUR tax dollars) to cover the cost of other people’s irresponsible and reckless behavior.

I think that he liberals are digging themselves a very deep hole on this issue, and all I can say is, “Keep Digging!”...

"Every time the government attempts to handle our affairs, it costs more and the results are worse than if we had handled them ourselves."

Benjamin Constant, Cours de politique constitutionnelle (1818-20)

"No matter how noble the objectives of a government, if it blurs decency and kindness, cheapens human life, and breeds ill will and suspicion -- it is an evil government. Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind (1954)
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As rationing of healthcare options cannot be avoided in any of the liberal plans, a form of "passive euthanasia" for the elderly will undoubtably ensue; so, let's "ABORT OBAMACARE!"