On libertarian grounds, I reluctantly oppose Mayor Bloomberg's goal. But a nagging question remains: What kind of person buys a big gulp soda equal to or greater than 16 ounces? These crappy, sugar-loaded drinks rot your teeth and digestive system. Blacks are the worst when it comes to a healthy diet, but lots of whites and Hispanics are almost as bad. What Bloomberg should be doing is using his power of persuasion rather than a nanny ordinance to alter the choices of New Yorkers, however poorly informed those choices may be. Bloomberg needs to tap into his inner LaGuardia.

Not to Poland.

About 8,000.

Among whites, there has been relatively little family erosion. It's blacks and Hispanics where we see the sickness. It's much more a racial thing than people realize.

I watch "garbage" movies all the time and am none the worse for it. To equate this with gang activity is nuts.

The Mexican government is knee-deep in the kidnapping racket, too. That 2004 movie starring Denzel Washington, "Man on Fire," reflected this reality. Drug dealers, kidnappers and the federales are part of a seamless web. Was that your experience?

Why don't you live in an all-black neighborhood and tell us how much fun it is? Race realism is the ultimate conservatism.

No, this is coming from the common sense party. Democrats LOVE blacks. And blacks LOVE Democrats back because that's where the free lunch is. The problem is the party opposes white interests at every turn. This whole schtick about "liberal racism" is getting tedious. It's a dumb meme based on an enbarrassingly selective use of facts. News flash: In the South prior to the 1970s, Democrat and liberal meant virtually the opposite. Oh, sage one: Race does matter. It sure matters to the blacks. That's why most whites, liberal and conservative alike, are terrified of blacks, smiling through our clenched teeth and proclaiming the joys of "diversity." Time to man up, fellow whites. Fight back.

Maybe the reason why President Obama called them "Polish death camps" is because they were located in Poland. Ya think? And there's a reason for that. Many Poles enthusiastically joined in with the Nazis, actively rounding up Jews and even killing them personally. That's a matter of historical record. Instead of reflexively denouncing Obama for everything he says and does, maybe recognize that once in a while he gets something right (I know, a broken clock...). His "gaffe" was accidentally stu,bling upon the truth. In any event, read up on the Holocaust and its aftermath in Poland. I say "aftermath" because the Kielce pogrom against the Jews was committed in 1946, after the war ended. Reading is fundamental.

Mexico itself is what should be investigated. It's a craphole masquerading as a nation, what with well over 40,000 drug-related murders, often with severed heads, limbs and torsos, since 2006. To quote comedian Yacov Smirnov: "What a country!"