Exactly. I'd like to know when ANY president had the right/power to impose and levy taxes? It's always been a function of Congress.

Hey, Pistol! My abode resembles your remark!

Thank you, Sir. May God let it be so again.

What she ***^*** said.

I also remember what my daddy did, outraged by those claims of Kruschev. He and all his brothers served in WWII. He wrote President (General) Eisenhower, and I quote: "Ike, you tell Kruschev to go to hell, and I'll help you put him there." I, too, spent 29 years serving to preserve the liberty guarunteed by the Constitution of the United States, and I have this to say, "Tell 'em all to go to hell, and I'll help you put 'em there."

Ms. Parker, I couldn't agree more with what you've written. It reminds me of something I heard in a pulpit: "How do you boil a frog? Well, you don't drop him into a pot of boiling water: he has enough sense to hop right out of it. You put him in cold water, let him get fat and comfortable; then you turn up the heat slowly letting him get used to the rising heat, and he'll soon be fit for consumption." This also reminds me of what Kruschev said at the UN once: "We will bury you." Along about that time, he said a very important thing that many have forgotten (I paraphrase): "We will overcome you from within." Cannot anyone see this happening today? The heat is being turned up on the American way of life.

I am an inherently sober and unamused person, but I, too, was LSHMBB (acronym supplied below) upon perusing the prose of Mr. Adams just now. What was distressingly UNAMUSING was how "spot-on" this literary masterpiece approximated the mood of those of us that are fed up with the general direction our country is being herded today. Is there an innoculation for the disease that has stricken our country? Is the CDC working on a cure? I am afraid that the only 'cure' is also discounted by those responsible for our great country's decline towards an irretrievable end. I am, indeed, despondent due to my children and grandchildren having to live in these times. I am no longer LSHMBB. L.aughing S.o H.ard M.y B.elly B.ounces