Thanks for admitting that it's "almost official". I hope people notice and ask themselves what you mean by "almost" and "official", because we're (this country) getting carefully managed "facts" about Romney and who would really begin the necessary changes to our federal Nanny State....

Well, if Hubbard was one of GW Bush's advisors--given the deflated ball he handed Obama, maybe he could be described as a "hack", but then who is Geithner to cast such aspersions? These guys are all in bed with one another, or at least drinking buddies away from the lights and cameras...

I understand the notion of "anybody but..."; it's just that the "anybody" being pushed on us is so poor an alternative. I'll stick with Paul.

Big talk, mister; let's see your roundhouse kick. It better be a good one. You're right about Newt though.

The SEC; what about the US Congress and White House administrations for decades being absent from holding either the SEC or the Federal Reserve accountablejQuery15203805426933669731_1329049779743? Maybe I missed any real mention of it on this website, but has anybody heard of or seen "Inside Job". It names names and tells the overall story of our corrupt financial sector. There is not an innocent elected official in Washington...

The SEC; what about the US Congress and White House administrations for decades being absent from holding either the SEC or the Federal Reserve accountablejQuery15203805426933669731_1329049779742? Maybe I missed any real mention of it on this website, but has anybody heard of or seen "Inside Job". It names names and tells the overall story of our corrupt financial sector. There is not an innocent elected official in Washington...

So, where did Adam Smith's principles come from? Smith's understanding of economics was influenced greatly (or one might say, "fundamentally") by the "Golden Rule", which most people understand comes from the Bible and, specifically, the words of Christ. While it is certainly accurate to say that philosophies other than Christianity influenced the founders and all the colonists, it is clear that Christianity played a predominate role. It would today as well if Christian ministers (and Christians in general) were better informed of both history and theology, and had the essential courage to speak up [publicly] for the same principles that the founders believed and lived by.

Hitchens was about as "great" as any of the rest of us compared to God. Now Hitchens is dead, and he knows a bit more than he did inhis "greatest" moments of insight while alive. I hope his was a death bed conversion....

"Scholars have shown...." the Bible to mean or not mean just about every contradictory notion under the sun. Scholars are obviously not to be trusted as easily as some do; neither should commentators and pundits be thoughtlessly believed. Think people. Pray, then use your heart and mind. Mr. Chapman, our federal government is not going out of it's way to protest the persecution of Christians in foreign countries or here in the US, and neither are many churches or individual Christians (strangely enough). I am not for the legalized (or otherwise condoned) abuse of anyone--homosexuals included, but our State Dept is a joke, as is our Mr. Obama. A very bad joke.

This pseudo endorsement of Rick Perry by Mr. Thomas suggests that Perry is no real danger to the big government status quo--even though he talks like he would be by "mentioning the revival of the 10th Amendment". In other words, Perry will keep a careful distance away from those now identified as domestic "terrorists"--those scary Tea Party Republicans. This is how we stay on "common ground" with the Bob Beckels of the political world. Hopefully the American people won't be fooled so easily by another slick talking, photogenic Texan.