Mr. Cuernos, If you said this back in November 2008, I would have understood why. But I would still have pointed out that a 98 IQ indicates a lot more intelligence than you give it credit for. The problem then, now, and always is how that intelligence has been exercised. Our education system, top to bottom, is dominated by left-wing attitudes; Obama took advantage of this to get elected. Since his election, though, Obama has given voters some serious education on what the government can and cannot do. Americans, irrespective of their IQs, have learned the lesson, and many fewer are impressed by his vapid elocution these days.

Only three of the eight deaths reported by AP Sunday morning were people inside their homes. The others were outside in a hurricane. Two were in the ocean off Florida. Darwin Award winners.

"So the private sector provides cheap intercity transportation while government struggles to waste $53 billion. Please remind me which is the wave of the future." Government wasting billions, even trillions of dollars is definitely the wave of the future.

No different from NEA, AARP, AMA, ABA, UAW, SEIU . . . Grow up, Brad.

" . . . the more than $400 billion already cut from our national security investments over the past few years." In 2005 (constant) dollars, from 2001 to 2010, defense spending rose from $400 billion annually to $750 billion. Except for a plateau at $600 billion from 2005 to 2007, that was a steady rise. No dips. There have been no cuts in defense spending over the past few years; rather, defense spending has risen 87%. We conservatives should not use the liberals' dishonest debate tactics. A failure to raise spending (that we favor) as much as we might have wished should not be described as a cut.

"So........how did these parents produce this child?" This may be more than a rhetorical question. Think about it. I'd rather not write about all the real possibilities.

"Since nothing in the Massachusetts reform addressed the problems of rising costs and less than adequate quality, those problems have remained more or less unchanged." If the newly insured can force providers to accept less than market price for their services, you can be sure that quality will plummet, and prices for the already insured will zoom. Maybe not as quickly as the access problem will hit the newly insured, but there's no free lunch. Even if the market is not free, the market will prevail.

Certainly a necessary, if not sufficient, condition, Buck.

Is the public school history curriculum becoming politicized? Probably, but that's not the crux of the probably. The majority of public school students don't know much about History, but they don't know much about Math, English, or Science either. NAEP results are for public schools only. What if we started a movement to refuse to pay that part of our taxes that goes to education?

"Both nuclear-armed Pakistan and Yemen . . . " Careful, Ms. Glick. It's bad enough that Pakistan is nuclear-armed. Some may think you're saying that Yemen is, too. God forbid.