When the difference between good and evil becomes stark, we are left with choices that supercede all other considerations. We have heroes by the number, that have exemplified human kind's greatest good, with incredible levels of self-denial, with feats that defy normal rationale. How strange it is then, that with politics the difference between 'good and evil' becomes such a melting pot of contradictions. Politics can sugarcoat anything, while refusing to draw distinctions between what is unwise and what is sheer lunacy.
The war hero from Hawaii has disappointed me with his positions, while amazing me with his past accomplishments. Such is living; such is politics.

It is amazing how many activities the left is now undertaking that were once the punchline of 'it could never happen in America' jokes. Seemingly, the intellectual continuum is moving into that 180 degree (or is it 360?) where the opposite of logic is logical. We are being told that greater spending is critical to reducing the deficity, that snowstorms and record cold temps means the earth is heating at an alarming rate, and that patriotic, god-fearing, tax-paying citizens with demographics in the mid-fifties is suppose, are about to storm the gates of the city and burn the palaces to the ground. Meanwhile the true threats are referred to gently as those we don't want to speak harshly about.
Thank you for being there, Anne. I...

It is increasingly apparent that liberalism, while deploring nearly all of the morality-clauses of Faith, operates from the quasi-throne of self-grandizement, or self-faith. It is anti-religious even toward its own religion, which is itself. In fact religion is more of a crutch of public persona than anything else. Members of the liberal elite are jealous of the God(s) of Faith because, as jealousy does, they consider themselves to have the various atributes normally given to God(s). They are gods, so long as they are either in a position of power, elected or no, or a position of supreme wealth. Yet they have so arranged the dialogue that they can decry the reality of power, or politics, and of supreme wealth. President obama has...

Tell me what orbit of the intellectual cosmos we've got ourselves trapped in. I swear, we all ought to read the book 'Animal Farm' again...or would 'Funny Farm' be more appropriate...?
We have four of the wisest men ever on the Supreme Court right now...they're so brilliant I don't even have to name them! Even those that hate them know who I'm talking about! Amazing men. Yet our political neanderthals babble on and on about how we're lacking, lacking, missing, blah, blah, blah, a truly insightful majority. Sanity has left the halls of the democratic party!!

'The dream lives on' indeed. We are in a nightmare-state and our president keeps handing out complimentary teddy bears. When will he wake up? Every day, every day, he pulls another boneheaded stunt--he's like the energizer bunny in presidential garb. Beating his drum and proclaiming his newfound discovery...cancel this, double that, wave a wand and go back to sucking your thumb.
What on earth are going to do? Our treatment of Israel is deplorable...but we don't stop there...it goes on and on and on...!!!

O's bellicose declaration that Palin can be ignored on this issue because 'she is not a nuclear expert' drops the curtain again on the Emperor's bare tush. He implies that he must be a nuclear expert, which is like saying that wading in a pond makes me a Navy Seal. So deep in self-grandizement is he that I fear for our nation's survival. Because he has the POWER of the constitution that he so flagrantly ignores and his ignorance is a true burden for this great country to bear.
Next we'll be promising to sell our own warheads to the highest bidder...!

Good grief...what a wordy column you've written here. It is entertaining I'm sure to see the scroll run down, knowing each unique and inspiring thought came from your keyboard...but, sorry if I withhold any enthusiastic applause. It is so tedious to read yet one more attempt to nice down the absolute absolutism that has permeated the 'O' administration. I don't care what their delicate intentions mask themselves as...this bunch is radical and has absolutely no respect for the goodness that exists in this country. Evil...? Of course it's evil to be so underhanded in their policies...on top of that it is sickening. They are, among other things, baby killers...how evil is that?

Lately I've been plagued with that sick feeling in the pit of my stomach that I associate with prolonged, seemingly hopeless, homesickness...the kind I used to feel whenever I found myself locked into some kind of summer camp that everyone claimed would be fun and challenging but proved to be dull, overly-regimented, and hopelessly lonely. Right now our lard-butted leaders are behaving like detached, unimaginative, parents who feel they're spoiling their children if, God forbid, they accidentally enjoy the freedom of growing up spontaneously. I am sick and tired of their condescension; of their thinly-veiled stupidity, and their over-abundance of self-congratulatory, chest thrust out, nose in the air, arrogance. They haven't a...

When it is decided by these wizards of correctness that the laundery list of civil rights now includes the right to keep 80% of ones income they will have my immediate attention and tentative support. Until then the legislation will continue to deteriorate into the land of lawyerly hissy-fits.

Good, worthwhile column, Anne.

One test of good fiction is a nearly over-powering temptation to flip to the end and see how it all turns out.
Thus it is now: we are indeed living a fiction. Lies and misrepresentations throw shadows across reality, blinding us to what is real. Each day brings another morality-test to the nation and some queasy feeling tells the majority of us that we are failing every single time. Why? Because the ones we have empowered to search and prove what is critical, relevant and of great need for fixing are failing in their very primary duty which is to illucidate the truth.
How will this fiction end? With soup lines, tattered and broken homes? With uninspired days of bare existence? Watching our children face a future as pathetic as...