This demonstrates nothing more than changing culture among people who live in America. Who is right and who is wrong depend on numbers, but one might guess that today's culture no longer values the same things and those that do no longer represent the majority of Americans.

This is the government that the majority of Americans want. When you want something, you overlook it's flaws. Doesn't matter if you consider it wrong. Progressive means many things. Within that fundamental transformation rights are readily overlooked when liberals consider the victims as evil ... and conservatives are judged evil. Beet Midler said it out loud (thank you IRS). All the rest simply agree in silence.

Environmentalists tend to also be liberals, but don't confuse environmentalism and liberalism. They are not synonyms. The article is incorrectly titled.

You supposedly cannot be punished without disclosure of an offense. I understand that some may be offended, and look for some violation, but reprimand should imply a violation has been judged. What rule did the soldier violate? I can't tell from the column, and my intuition is no violation was committed, hence I question what the soldier has been reprimanded for.

"Voters need reasons to vote GOP". There aren't any, and I don't believe the voters are uninformed and fooled into voting democratic either. You simply cannot have a democratic republic with a progressive tax code that enables half the electorate to contribute nothing (non-FICA) for benefits that will be paid for by someone else. It's like slavery. The productive people are bound slaves to provide benefits for everyone else. As in the civil war, this will not be given away lightly. People would rather fight, at risk to their life, than give up the benefits that voting democratic have brought them. They feel these are earned, and deserved. They see no reason to vote GOP, and that is a reasoned position. Like asking a dog to simply forfeit it's bone

Paul Jacobs thinks "spending only what comes in" is dopey because entitlements are not capped to revenue. I think Paul Jacobs is dopey. Large corporations manage allocation of benefits tied to earnings every year for hundreds of millions of employees. It's called profit sharing, and bean counters excel at managing the allocations to each participant. But, you say social security and other entitlement legislation isn't crafted this way. To do so admits the problem is not insurmountable and it could be fixed anytime we wanted. When will it? Never.

Different take: Only thing that perks my interest is why the school district didn't take their idea to the community for approval in advance? Not a half bad idea. What is wrong is that they didn't feel community permission was required.

It's less a matter of whether the west will wake up, and more an assessment of whether it's already irreversibly lost. I tend to think it's too late. Like the old axiom, there's nothing assured in life except death and taxes ... I think it needs to be updated that there are now THREE things in life that are certain, death, taxes, and the absolutely inevitable economic collapse of the US.

In these days of CSI brainwashed jury's that presume innocence unless there's dna, photographic, or eye witness evidence, I'm proud to say that I am not so foolish. Common sense says that Obama knowingly, and intentionally downplayed the Benghazi attack to minimize political damage. Clinton did likewise, and her own political acumen led her to leave office rather than face eventual reckoning. Susan Rice intentionally participated out of expectation of Secretary of State appointment for loyalty. Jay Carney intentionally lied to protect his boss. For years, this administration has overtly sought payback to FoxNews and conservatives for their opposition by "all means available". All liberal gov't employees have felt empowered to assist confident they'd enjoy impunity from consequence.

Don't know if in-brainwashing an entire generation is plausible. I suspect not. The better strategy is to sidestep the source of the brainwashing for a future generation. I believe the current government run school system must go, in it's entirety. School choice demolishes public k-12, and terminating all government funding (de facto privatizing) universities does the same for higher education. Free market schools solves the dilemma complete for the next generation.