Townhall and its contributors are preaching to the choir. The rest of the congregation just doesn't care. The indoctrination centers that masquerade as centers of both higher and lower education have been successful. Too many people are unable to reason their way out of a paper bag, and are otherwise too obsessed with Getting Theirs to even pay much attention to the planned disintegration of our country. I'm afraid to look at where we're headed.

The same policing of speech and thought prevailed in Nazi Germany prior to and during World War ll, and it led to a tacit acceptance of the persecution of the Jews. We've reached a point in this country where it's socially unacceptable to voice opinions contrary to PC doctrine. If this continues unchecked, it won't be long before it will also be legally unacceptable to voice such opinions.

This reaction was formerly well-known not only to the scientific world, but to anybody who presumed to teach high-school chemistry. It's obvious that the girl was unsupervised, and exactly whose fault is THAT?

The launching of the Titanic was accompanied by a lot of safety hype, too....

Sorry—You're right that there’s always been non-procreative sex, and that child rearing has never been a legal requirement for marriage. However, the community has ALWAYS had a vested interest in protecting children, who are the future of that community, and has in various ways since ancient times promoted marriage as the best way of accomplishing this. You missed my point, which was that dismissing marriage as being primarily a venue for the bearing and rearing of children laid the groundwork for the current controversy over gay marriage.

Prior to the 1960’s, a consensus existed that the primary purpose of marriage was the procreation and rearing of children, with the mutual fulfillment of the partners being a secondary purpose. Then came The Pill, which effectively separated sex from procreation. The fulfillment of the partners gradually came to be seen as the primary purpose of marriage, with children coming in second and couples possessing an option to remain childless. Over time, the fulfillment of the partners, with or without marriage, became a raison d’etre and personal sexual fulfillment turned into the Holy Grail. In this context, the “rationale” for gay marriage was made to look plausible. Maybe we need to check our premises.

Getting people to "abide by the rules of war" when those people are just fine with murdering an opponent's entire family before his eyes seems a bit of a stretch. Other than that, there is some rationality in supporting whichever side is losing at any given time.

For some time now, the GOP has been promoting to driver people who should have been kicked off the bus. When nothing changes, nothing will change.

The redefinition of "mentally unstable" should be child's play for people who call terrorist acts "man-caused disasters" and who've classified Nidal Hasan's massacre at Fort Hood as "workplace violence".

The CLEC! I love it! The Pink Elephant initiative during the 2008 campaign said it all: This attempt to get Republican women to host neighborhood teas during which the party line would be promulgated featured as its mascot a jogging elephant togged out in pink sweatshirt and sneakers, wearing a brave smile and with sweat droplets spewing from her fevered brow. I suggested at the time that whomever decided to project an image of Republican women as fat, sweaty frumps should be kicked off the bus at the next stop, but in hindsight it appears that this person was instead promoted to driver.