REALLY??? At least we 'yanks' (I resent that term, being born & bred southern rebel) have the 'temerity' to stand up and fight for each other instead of whipping out the cell phones to record a slaughter. And who said London bore any resemblance to Britain (like it really matters in this case)? The beheading happened IN LONDON, in front of a dozen or more gawkers who were both unarmed and unballed. At least in the aftermath of 9/11 we went after the CR@P who attacked us.

not to hijack the thread, but what about conceal-and-carry on a south London street? If one of those sheep had been CCL they'd have two fewer terrorists to try to convict and one more soldier to protect them. All we have to do is look at all of the instances where shooters have succeeded in causing mass casualties and those where they have NOT succeeded (data is public, go look it up) to see that allowing schools & churches (or anywhere else for that matter, except for the obvious ones mentioned already) to have CCL people on staff would save countless lives.

well-said, Simon!!! If only more people here would believe your experiences and stand up we might have a fighting chance (underscore the 'fighting'). I know one thing for sure: pick any street in Texas (even a semi-crowded one) and after the car hits the soldier the idiots driving are torn limb from limb before they even reach the victim. If not limb from limb, riddled with holes. We take our gun rights SERIOUSLY, and it's only the evil ones in power (pushing forever toward disarmament) who even pretend to believe that removing guns from the average Joe will make the streets safer. I say FOR WHOM??? Safer for nobody but the terrorists who will no longer have to fear someone using them for target practice. I also say BRING IT ON. At least people at Ft Hood had the sense to shoot the shooter, saving countless more lives. If they want a holy war, we'll give 'em a holy war.

IRS refused to respond to Camp's & Levin's demand for info a week ago... "The letter that Camp and Levin sent to the IRS a week ago Tuesday asked the agency to answer thirteen questions about its targeting of conservative groups and, where relevant, provide all internal agency documents and communications substantiating its answers." IMHO they should be asking the IRS for the same things those thugs asked the conservative groups for: where they ate dinner, who they spoke with and when, where they went to the restroom, all tweets for the past 50 years (ok, maybe we could give a little grace on that since we haven't been tweeting that long), all emails sent and received, whose daughter their son dated, what schools their kids attended, what meetings they went to and all other attendees of those meetings... what comes around goes around. :)

Andrew Marcus says "no, we're not in the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union collapsed some years ago. "... but that in and of itself is a terrifying statement. We're now living in the next Soviet Union-style collapse if we don't have less passivity and a humongous increase in action by all of us TEA-Partiers.

therein lies the conundrum: do we throw His Majesty in jail, thereby continuing for a number of years (if we're lucky) to pay his room & board while he continues to do NOTHING? Or shall we send him to Gitmo and let him languish with the terrorists he wanted to release, as well as removing his lifetime pension since he will be a convicted felon?

agreed, BUT... NOBAMA must go down for all of this CR@P that is happening -- he's much too narcissistic for us to believe he had no clue. This is full-blown deriliction of duty and NOT upholding the Constitution, which means he should be impeached. We REALLY don't need another 3+ years of this incompetent boob, even if we get stuck with incompetent boob jr, 'plugs' Biden

getting his beauty sleep. lot of good that did.

sorry, there should have really been five 'F's in my comment about full fury of our fighting forces but I'm trying to keep it clean here. :)

"better training so our military can respond "lightning quick" to threats"???!!! Did Nobama really say that out loud? He's basically saying that if we had better than a little league team to work with we could have gotten there. REALLY??? There is no lack of training in our military; the only lack therein is funding for necessities -- minor things like guns, ammo, body armor, etc. That this yahoo --err, president-- has the gall to say anything close to that is appalling, and surprising even for this incompetent boob. If his majesty had been available for his '3a wake-up call' instead of sleeping to look pretty for his next-day fundraising tour, those terrorists would have felt the full fury of our fighting forces and wouldn't even think of trying to overrun another of our 'consulates'. Oops... I probably just bought an audit from the IRS. :)