Shouldn't it be called "The Institute for 'Neutered' Economic Thinking?"

Let me guess... Krugman is on board?

Sorry, 220 traitors (not 218).

An Instinctive Gesture...says, "Yeah, if my ideology was represented by a simpleton meathead like Hannity, I'd want to change the subject too."

I see that you did.

It was a good catch by Jon Stewart and stupidity on the part of whoever on Hannity's show decided to include the old video. I cannot begin to express the immense comfort I now feel knowing that people like Stewart are keeping their ears to the ground and eyes on the horizon vigilantly seeking out and reporting the dangers to our nation on all sides. I always knew that those anti-authority mocking types sticking their tongues out and rolling their eyes at the teacher from the back row in 1st grade would set aside their own self-amusement and rise to greatness...

scept - Wrong.

Congress approved military engagement, as follows:

2001 War on Afghanistan, called Operation Enduring Freedom, SJ Res 23, Sept 14, 2001

Iraq War, known as Operation Iraqi Freedom, HJ Res 114, Oct 6, 2002.

Section 2(b) of SJ Res 23 states that the resolution meets the requirements of the War Powers Resolution, consistent with section 5(b) of that Resolution.

Spittoon-inaneous writes: "They played their hand and it was brilliant."

Your "brilliant" is our "devoid of any light whatsoever."

I don't care what they did. I don't like the idea of ANY media organization meeting with members of this administration behind closed doors. It gives the appearance of working together and there is enough of that already. I can't imagine what execs at Fox were thinking.

This administration deserves only glaring spotlights into every corner and a watchdog following their every move and anticipating the next.

Fox should start a "risk management" summary, which lists ALL the ways this nation is currently at risk and moves the mercury up and down the thermometer to gauge the...

His followers independent thinkers, my foot.

What exactly is it that a "community organizer" does other than find something to organize AGAINST, agitate people to encourage them to believe that they have been wronged and that he has a better way, and then direct groups of such INFLUENCED FOLLOWERS enmasse to push HIS AGENDA forward, as he is doing in this speech. He doesn't want them to think because he knows that any independence on their part is a threat to him and his agenda.

Puniness projected large is still puniness and all the reverberation and stagecraft in the world won't change that equation. This man has never constructed anything; his sole offering is deconstruction.

Obama is one insult short of a smirk...

Despite what Munck says, World Net Daily does quote directly from Holdren's book, giving the page from which the quotes were taken and placing the quotes in quotation marks.

Also, the only available copy of the book on Amazon is $250. I'd recommend Hayek's book, The Counter-Revolution of Science, which costs less AND doesn't reduce human beings to resources to be culled, cultivated and harvested just because a bunch of socialist intellectuals think they can rise above it all and determine what order SHOULD look like.

Munck - Article I, Section 8 (the Commerce Clause) does NOT grant unlimited rights to Congress "to promote the general welfare" regardless of their attempts to interpret it that way.

As with the use of that clause in the preamble, it is not a blank check; rather, it is descriptive of the words that precede it. It is not "empowering;" it is describing the reason for behind imposing taxes, duties, imposts and excises, but it is followed by Congress' specific enumerated powers.

Further, the 10th Amendment specifies that the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution are reserved to the States or the people. And, the 9th specifies that the enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights, shall not be...

The final belch of a union dying from its own gluttony.

Suggested reading to counter the BS put out by Holdren and friends:

"The Counter Revolution of Science" by Freidrich Hayek. Although the second section is much easier to read, be sure to read the first to understand the development of the philosophy of subjectivism (relativism, pragmatism, utilitarianism and all the rest of the "2 + 2 = whatever I want it to be-ism" crowd) and its use in the "social" sciences to consolidate power in central government.

sceptyczny obfuscates the truth - Holdren's statements in a book he coauthored - by attacking the messenger, World Net Daily. The source material was Holdren's own book; World Net Daily did not simply pull Holdren's statements out of thin air (or read them off a...