Interesting theory, Rich -- Government employees are relieved of any personal responsibility for their actions. So I guess if an IRS agent felt guilty about auditing Rich Galen just because he's a right-wing blogger on Townhall, then that IRS agent oughta just quit his job and keep his mouth shut, right? He oughta let someone else do the audit. And I guess we can hardly blame Rudolf Hoess for gassing all those Jews at Auschwitz, either. He was only following the orders of his government, after all! Wow. I always wondered why the left calls us Nazi's.

When your enemy points his gun at himself, do not spoil his aim. Corollary: When the barbarians of Backwardistan are busy killing each other, do not interrupt the slaughter to choose your favorite barbarian.

You're right, I mistyped and thanks for the correction. But you might want to check your facts on Joseph Smith. The only difference between ol' Joe the hat gazer and any other cult leader was that he "married" his child victims first. Mike's article gives a few examples.

John Smith, Mohammed, David Koresh, Jim Jones, Stewart Trail, Charles Manson, and on and on. What's the quickest way to identify a cult? The founder is diddling the children. But I agree. A political column is a silly place to attack the religion of a fellow Replublican. Unless, of course, he's yet another RINO running for President and about to doom us to another 4 years in the wilderness.

RINO's lie just like Dumbocrats, don't they Medved? The only difference is that Dumbocrats aren't dumb enough to actually believe their own lies. As all of us here in the sane world still remember, the last time the GOP chose an actual conservative was not 50 years ago. It was 30 years ago, with Ronald Reagan -- the last time it made any difference who won. And then we rescued the hostages, won the cold war, saved the human race from global extermination, ended the worst recession since the Great Depression, initiated 30 years of economic expansion, and restored pride in being American. Back here in the sane world, we'd all like to try that again. So peddle your lies elsewhere, Medved.

Gee, Mr. Wizard! So does this "science" you speak of explain why 100,000,000 people starved or were murdered by their benevolent Socialist regimes in the 20th century or why that great bastion of "scientific" economic equality, the Soviet Union, collapsed from merely attempting to compete with our chaotic and slightly less socialist system?

The problem is the word -- "tax". The solution is a better word -- "fee". A "fee" is the price you pay for a service. Government provides the service of creating a stable economic environment in which to perform any economic transaction, from buying an hour of a man's labor to buying a house. The fee for that service would be a simple percentage of the transaction, and the rate is easy to calculate -- divide the budget by the GDP: 12%. Who pays the fee? Well obviously, the party with the money -- the buyer. But what about the poor, the old, the sick? Shouldn't the "filthy evil rich" pay their "fair share"? Fine. But that's a different problem and different word -- "subsidy". It's basic English, folks.

Well, I sure am glad the war's finally over! Now we can disband that idiotic "Department of Homeland Security"! And quit stripping and surrendering our nail clippers and shampoo before boarding an airplane... right? Just one detail I guess I missed. Who won? Last I checked the score was stuck at about 3,000 to 1, their favor. Does that mean I need buy my wife a burka? And I suppose they'll appoint some guy named Mo or Hussein "President for Life". Oh wait, they already did that. Hmmm... Does it have to be black or are we going to be one of the liberal countries that let the women wear paisley burkas?

who's the idiot? This idiocracy elected elected this moron twice, and even in the midst of all the current demonstrations of complete incompetence, he still polls over 53 %. His strongest constituency is the decendents of the slaves his Dumbocrat party was founded to enslave. The well of human stupidity has never been plumbed so deeply as the nation that could elect any leader from the party that has never been correct on any issue from slavery to Obamacare and every question in between.

Nepotism is just another word for tribalism... which is just another word for socialism. Ever wonder why those fierce champions of "democracy" -- the Dumbocrats -- always create cults of personality: Wilson, FDR, the Kennedy's, the Clinton's, Obama? They're always looking for a chief to lead their tribe! They call themselves "progressive" but their philosophy is so old it actually predates the human race. In other primates we simply call it "herd behavior". There's a reason the least evolved among us -- hippies, gossip mongers, liberal arts professors, hollyweird celebrities, 3rd world refugees -- lean toward the philosophy so simple even an ape can understand it!

There's an easy way to get the truth out. It's called "prosecution". The regime blames all on "low level employees"? Fine. Let's see how many are willing to face a few years in jail to cover for their boss.