Typical Hugh Hewitt viewpoint. Sure, let's all add to the federal government bureaucracy by appointing another layer, a "select committee," with the surfeit of staffing that accompanies it. This mentality is what's wrong in America! Hewitt . . . just another big government guy who believes that the solutions to government-driven problems in the country can be solved by the same government that is the cause. Brilliant! Cogitoergosum

Absolutely correct opinion! Rove spent the better part of seven years providing Bush with advice completely antithetical to responsible, good and efficient governance. Thus we have the FED run amok, the deep depression, the bailouts, the extravagant spending and all in an effort to garner phantom votes. Rove consistently misread the media and the demographics (regardless of his hand-held chalkboard) and continues in that blissful ignorance today.

Mr. Prager and his radio talk show appear to be obsessed with validating his ongoing beliefs in imaginary beings. Mr. Prager is usually dead-bang-on with his assessments of the left and the progressive ideology, and it is clear that his intelligence causes great conflict within him when he looks at the answers provided by the progress of science compared to the mythologies (stolen from ancient Sumerian myths) that supposedly support his religious and theist beliefs. He quite clearly is in a constant battle with reality and religious myth indoctrination. Good luck Dennis!

"There are no atheists in a foxhole." Similarly, any thinking person can no longer be a theist after witnessing the Sandy Hook massacre. And Mr. Hawkins' 5 reasons are pretty lame and boil down to being a bit delusional with an imaginary friend - and not very friendly imaginary friend at that.

Really? You don't consider Pakistan an Islamic State? An Islamic government far less stable than that of Iran and with a nuclear arsenal estimated at over 300 nuclear-armed rockets. Ahmadinejad doesn't run Iran . . . the mullahs and ayatollahs call the shots. Ahmadinejad is a loud mouth who the government religious hierarchy let run amok because his rhetoric suits their purposes. But Ahmadinejad doesn't manage the military and can't declare war or use Iran's arsenal. He's mostly a figurehead to whom the rest of the world listens.

I would suggest a fallacious analogy. I wasn't writing about child sex offenders. Very possibly a completely different part of the brain that's faulty - and that's an issue, medical science and psychiatry know precious little about how the brain physically malfunctions in mental illness, or how to effectively treat the illness. Drugs mask the symptoms, but aren't really curative. Psychiatric knowledge (vis-a-vis brain functions in mental illness) is about as advanced as surgical procedures were in the 17th century. We are all prisoners of our individual brain chemistry and electrical behavior.

That's one of the problems today . . . there are no mental hospitals. Walk among the "homeless" if you aren't aware of this.

Long before there were video games, there were mass shootings and mass-killings by various means, including knives, automobiles, explosives, etc. I would suggest that the playing of violent video games could actually offer a therapeutic effect for certain individuals. Violent video games provide an individual on the precipice of mental derangement a vicarious method of satisfying his/her aggression or paranoid feelings of persecution. These games are thus more likely to prevent more mass-killing incidences than they would ever encourage. This writer, like other seekers of a blame-someone convenience, is looking at the glass half empty, instead of half-full perspective. He needs to acquire a modicum of imagination for alternative view.

Yep . . . I remember on the day before this year's election that Mike Gallagher was extolling his listeners to "pray for a Romney victory," that the listeners "should never underestimate the power of prayer." Gosh, what happened? Nothing fails like prayer. I'm sure you've tried it often with amazing and expected results. Stupid is as stupid does, indeed - talking to imaginary people as if they would have some influence. George Bush used to say that he spoke with God every day. And the Christians just loved him for it. If he had said that he talked with God through his hair dryer, we'd have impeached him and had him locked-away. I fail to see how the insertion of a hair dryer into the discussion makes the point invalid.

I'd rather refrain from counting on the benevolence, or malevolence, of imaginary friends. I am responsible and accountable for my actions and my genetic makeup can, and often does, determine the vitality of my existence.