Do they need a conspiracy? Don't the leftists all think alike? Donald W. Bales

Plato's Republic, Thomas More's ideas, Hobbes Leviathan, the French Revolution and most recently Marxism-all Utopian ideas when the elite run everything because they are so smart and so honorable-so much more so than everyone else-have not not worked out when they have been applied in France in 1789 (resulted in Napoleon and lots of war) and Marxism which resulted in more deaths in peace time than had ever happened before from human activity. Offering economic security in place of freedom wound up with neither. Are some in the U.S. Utopians? I am going to add Charles Payne to my list of non-whites that I admire. It gives me hope for non-whites' future in the U.S. Not all are on the Federal plantation. Donald W. Bales

How good have you been on predictions? Has anyone kept score on you? The economic situation looks very bad to me right now. The corporations may be doing well and sitting on a lot of cash. I think Obama has a lot to do with that. They are waiting for certainty about Obamacare and taxes-both of which will cause their costs to rise. The same with oil-if the administration took even little steps to look like they were going to allow more domestic production-it would discourage the speculators from betting on price increases. It looks like Obama wants the country to decline in every way-militarily, economically, behaviorally-to make the U.S. be just another country like those in Europe-broke with huge future liabilities for welfare and pensions

I have never had much respect tor the State Department and I have even less now. It seems that they are not really interested in the welfare of the United States. But, of course, the Secretary of State is appointed by the President so the President has the power to discharge the Secretary if his (or her) policies are not carried out. "The buck stops with the President" as far as the actions of the executive branch are concerned. The credit of the blame goes to the President whether he accepts it or recognizes it or not. The electorate is to blame for the misdeeds of the Federal government, but with the MSM, academia, Hollywood and many others being so biased that the facts do not become widespread it's no wonder that they vote as they have

Hurrah for you. You are on the list that gives me hope for black people. Not all of the black people are brainwashed. Admired non-white Columnists and Others 1. Ayaan Hirsi Ali (for Muslim women in particular and Muslims in general) 2. Herman Badillo (for Hispanics) 3. Ken Blackwell 4. Herman Cain 5. Ward Connerly 6. Bill Cosby 7. Dinesh D’Souza Not a black 8. Larry Elder 9. Samuel L. Jackson, Jr. 10. Alan Keyes 11. Leonard Pitts 12. Michele Malkin Filipino 13. Mychal S. Massie 14. Clarence Page 15. Star Parker 16. Jesse Lee Peterson 17. Colin Powell (some reservations about him) 18. Condoleezza Rice (sometimes she worries me) 19. Don Scoggins 20. Thomas Sowell 21. Michael Steele 22. Clarence Thomas 23. Armstrong Williams

The leftists use anything at all-it doesn't matter if it's true or not. The conservatives have too many "Ruths." They, we, need to be ruthless and be just as confrontational as the leftists (also called Democrats, liberals and progressives). They should instead be called regressives, because they are utopian oriented and hark back more to the past than to the future. None have worked-not Plato's Republic, not More's, not Hobbes, not the French Revolution and not Marx's Socialism (Communism) and the current Obamaism (a la Saul Alinsky) will not work either. In another sense, they are progressive, but they are progressing in an unfavorable direction-not toward improvement but to deterioration and ruin. Or maybe dictatorship.

"Take a pencil to it!" That's what I did about buying a Prius. I only drive 5000-10000 a year so it would have taken very many years and very many miles to have come out economically on buying a car with a price much higher than that of a conventional car. I could afford it, but I did not buy a new car-I bought a used Corolla. Those people in D.C. don't know squat about anything. But they think they know it all-especially this present bunch that Obama has around him. Donald w. Bales

Not quite as bad a program at the Ethanol one, but close. The market does a much better job of selecting things than does the government. But then what does the government do well? Donald W. Bales

Progressive suggests progress in a favorable direction. However, Progressive as used now means progress in an unfavorable direction. Liberal used to mean "in favor of liberty and against autocracy, monarchy, the established church." It came to mean and to be recognized to mean "statism" and lack of liberty. Now the term "progressive" needs to be recognized as to what it really means and it, too, means statism and lack of liberty. We have a number of people, including the President, who seem to favor statism and to hate the United States.

The ethanol subsidy was not the worst,. (What was or is the worst? Tere are so many that it is hard to choose), but was bad enough. Less energy per gallon, was there any less C01 from it, raised food prices. What else bad did it do? Did it do any good at all? Maybe helped some farmers (big agribusinesses more than individuals, helped corn state pols). Does the Congress and the President ever do anything right or refrain from doing anything wrong? The Supreme Court doesn't do so hot either. The Armed Forces do well what they are permitted to do, but their procurement sucks. Does it seem to the reader that I don't have much confidence in our government-and in the electorate? If I didn't get that across-let me know.r Donald W. Bales