A long time ago, I worked for a couple of years in a foreign country in close association with several of the three-letter organizations. In intelligence work there is very rarely black and white or wrong and right. It's mostly a very gray legal environment that can be interpreted in different ways depending on whether you end up the defendant or plaintiff in court. A short time after I arrived, the head of one of the organizations and I were having lunch and the topic of working in such a gray legal environment came up. "Yes, it's a problem for us," he said. "We risk our careers every day making decisions that could be interpreted as crossing the line. The only advice I can offer is that they can send you to jail for lying, but there is little they can do if you can't remember. Avoid putting too much in writing and avoid remembering too much of what you see and do." It was good advice. To this day, In fact, I don't remember anything about those two years include which country I might have been in. I get the feeling all of these department and agency heads are having amnesia because they will go to jail for lying; but not remembering anything only gets them some harsh words from the oversight committee..

I live in Florida. I admired Rubio. I voted for him. But the love affair is over. There is no way under the Sun that immigration reform will work if illegals are given amnesty first. In English, Rubio has been saying that the border security is critical to open the pathway to amnesty. But in Spanish he's saying that legalization has to come before border security. People, we are already giving illegals tens of billions of dollars in benefits that they neither earned nor rate. Why in God's name would we legalize them without any assurance that wouldn't be having this exact same discussion and hundreds or billions of dollars more in benefits over the next decade. Remember that Congress swore on a stack of bibles that the amnesty under Reagan would end illegal immigration. Guess what? It was a lie then and it's a lie now. Immigration law starts with the border and ends with either a work visa, a temporary visa to do something, or citizenship. Immigration law does not star with legalizing illegal immigrants and then allowing millions more illegals to enter the country.

This has nothing to do with New York. 99% of average Americans have no clue about anything. A recent video asking students at the University of California at Berkley to name at least on Supreme Court Justice resulted in zero having any clue. A second question about who was the VP, only one out of ten students could answer it. And the list goes on. I concluded that a college education these days is probably not worth the paper that the degree is printed on. When I went to collage, I could have not only told them who the President and VP were, but I could have named all nine justices on the Supreme Court. I could have also told them who the governor was, and my state and federal senators as well as who my district representative was in Congress. By in large, the average American is a complete air head looking for government handouts. Period.

I'm puzzled why it was so hard to find an appropriate burial site for Tamerlan Tsarnaev. Doesn't Boston have a place where it dumps the waste sludge from its sewage processing plants?

Good article by someone who knew McGovern personally. But I have a couple observations: McGovern was a dedicated leftist who preferred a European style of socialism for the American people and worked hard to make it a reality. In part, he laid the foundation for the mess we are in today. With regard to his views on war, as a B-24 pilot with 35 combat mission, he more than most people should have understood that it's not the war that's wrong, it's how the war is fought that is the problem. The military does not declare wars--the president and/or congress does. And victory over a determined opponent is only attained by crushing his will to continue to fight. In Vietnam, we needed to overwhelm North Vietnam quickly and violently.

Hope is what someone has who doesn't know what to do.

You don't have to make a documentary, write a book, give a speech, or attend a rally to protest the President's policies to be called every name in the book. You only have to be an ordinary John Doe conservative citicizen to be labeled stupid, a rascists, Nazi, violent, and accourding to our own Department of Homeland Security--a domestic terror threat. In the old days, you actually had to say or do something to be labeled a bigot and danger to society. But in our new enlightened liberalism being forced on everyone, you simply have to be a Republican minding your own business. Times have changed--and not for the better.

This country needs all of the above. But we need to continue to use and increase fossilf fuel until the other "all of the above" become econmically viable. Trying to force non-viable energy options on the market when they are not competitive is insanaity. We need government research but we don't need to inject government directly into the private sector when they have no clue what the F they are doing.

When you say that Romney has no detailed policy by which to judge him, are you referring to his 59 point plan for economic recovery, his promise to repeal Obamacare, his plan to reform the tax code from the six rates to two rates, lower corportate tax rates to be competitive with the rest of the world, general agreement with the Ryan budget (seen a Democrat budget in the last three and a half years?), his promise to reform medicare with specific proposals, ending wind subsidies, reducing all government subsidies by 10 percent and gradually lowering them in future years, reducing the size of government, reducing the job-killing regulations, and a specific energy policy that includes approving the Keystone Pipeline, increasing drilling...

From the mess the Middle East is in, China kicking us like a junkyard dog, Europe no longer gives a rat's flying potato what Obama thinks, and Latin America has all turned further left the past 4 years to the point where they too don't give a rat's flying potato what we think; it appears that Obama still doesn't have any foreign policy experience after nearly four years in office. By the way, how's that reset thingy working out with Russia? I think Mitt is far more concerned about economic recovery than how tough he looks.