Let's make a point about water-boarding as a form of torture. If you were given the choice between being given 30 days in jail, or be on the receiving end of what we traditionally consider torture, it would not be a close call. Tooth extractions, bone breaking, severe beating, nail extraction, appendage removal, and such things are torture, and have been used by the very people that liberals have complained about getting water-boarding. On the other hand, I think that few people that had the option would choose to be jailed for 30 days over being water-boarded. Only liberals could make dumping a bucket of water on someone the moral equivalent of torture.

It is actually very common for companies to pay out small amounts like this instead of fight them. The cost of defending would be much greater, and the chances of landing on the front page are very high. I am sure that at the time, Cain gave no thought to the possibility of seeking high office, and therefore did not see the need to fight the allegations. It would make very little sense for him to waste his time, or the companies money fighting this. I know far too many people that this happened to. One question that has to be asked is why are these charges only coming from the women associated with this one company? Is it realistic to think he would act like Bill Clinton in only that one job?

Mr. Walker, let's get past the ad homonym attacks, and talk solutions. Even Al Gore admits that his policy suggestions will have little to no effect. If it is a given that the anthropogenic global climate change hypothesis is correct (please do not try to prove it, I am giving you the point purely to get to what you would do about it), what specifically would you do? We can not make a significant difference if we shut down all industry in this country, and China is not going to slow down its use of hydrocarbons anytime soon. If Gore got his way, we would have global climate change and significant poverty. Would you not rather have global climate change (hey, if it is true, there is little we can do about it) and property?

The article is correct that some people are waiting to see who starts emerging from the conservatives prior to donating. I am for nearly anyone but Romney, an will be contributing more this cycle than any in the past. I am almost ready to send a check to Bachmann, as she seems to be the one that is starting to pull away from the pack. BTW... you Romney supporters; could one conclude that since people are not waiting to see which conservative emerges to donate to Romney that he is not a conservative? If we elect a moderate that has a track record for creating bigger government, do you really think that we are going to get control of the already too big government?

Glenn-
If you were smart, you would be complaining about Bushes cheap money policies that cost much more than a trillion like the war. You could also rightly complain about the new entitlement that is already out of control that he signed.

You do not have to spend much time trying to convince conservatives of the spending and monetary policy errors of the Bush administration.

On to that war... Like the above items of complaint, Bush got support from the very same democrats that today complain about it. I will be the first to admit that I agreed with the idea of invading Iraq. The cozy relationship between Ansar al Islam and the Iraqi government, along with the honest belief that everyone had that Iraq was hold a...

sceptyczny-
You are making the mistake that democracy is stable, and that it results in greater freedom. You are also making the mistake that we have a democracy. We have a constitutional republic, and the rules can not change because of elections. The founders were trying to have representation without having a democracy, as history had and has continued to prove that democracy leads to tyranny. The main thing that the Intercollegiate Socialist Society understood that they had to do to bring socialism to the U.S. was to turn the public perception of our form of government from that of a constitutional republic with indirect representation to a democracy. 100 years later, the President of the United States, a supposed...

Careful with that axe, Eugene-
"America is the ONLY nation in the world that does not ensure universal health care for all it's citizens. So the rest of the world is screwed up and we're right? Somehow, I don't think so."

America is the only nation that has it's form of government. America is the only nation that ensures the liberty of it's citizens with its constitution. American has seen more prosperity than any other nation, and the poor in America would be considered rich in all but a few places on earth. These other nations that you speak of as being better typically have unemployment much greater than what we currently have in our greates recession on 75 years, and almost no economic mobility.

The rest of...

Careful with that axe, Eugene-
"America is the ONLY nation in the world that does not ensure universal health care for all it's citizens. So the rest of the world is screwed up and we're right? Somehow, I don't think so."

America is the only nation that has it's form of government. America is the only nation that ensures the liberty of it's citizens with its constitution. American has seen more prosperity than any other nation, and the poor in America would be considered rich in all but a few places on earth. These other nations that you speak of as being better typically have unemployment much greater than what we currently have in our greates recession on 75 years, and almost no economic mobility.

The rest of...

johninoregon-
"Somehow the republic survived the advent of Medicare, Medicaid, and Veterans Administration benefits. And somehow the three dozen advanced industrialized nations that already have full guaranteed health care (more than this bill provides) haven't turned into clones of North Korea."

At the time that we passed these things, we were not in so much debt that the currency was about to collapse. Thenks to them, and other boneheaded choices, it now is. Other nations are now refusing to buy our securities, and most other nations are trying to replace our currency with something else. Notice that run up in gold prices lately?

We have made ourselves the most endebted nation in the history of the world due to...

I know that there are the folks that say that the crazy sized crowds that this "idiot" is drawing is only in friendly venues, but any time a political figure can draw in the thousands in an off year is amazing. Drawing in the 10s of thousands in an off year is unheard of. Al Gore, the biggest name on the left outside of the One, just managed to draw 800 in Florida, and he has an Emmy, Oscar, and Nobel.

The Oprah jumped to the front of the line to get Palin on, not the other way around. She will happily eat a little crow in the process so that she can see audience that has not turned on her show since she went in the tank for the One. she knows that Palin is the biggest draw in the country other than the NFL and NASCAR. ...