I was telling my friends and wife for months that that $700 billion would end up being a slush fund for Lefty ambitions. They'll funnel the money where it will help them: paying off people, repaying people, and the like. And no one will look into it, or no one will report what is ultimately found. It's what Chicago does, it's what Washington does now. Welcome to Machine Politics.

The imbecile Congressman Altmire was "non-committed" to this bill until this weekend, when I'll bet my house he voted FOR the bill he was uncommitted on. It infuriates me. They lie, they distort, they play dumb/coy, they play us...and we re-elect them. They're the problem...as we are too. We don't pay enough attention.

The Dems are taking long-term view. They're willing to take a hit this year, if in a decade they come to power and stay there. The debate will be over. How can Republicans talk about personal responsibility and liberty while huge percentages of folks are dependent on gov't healthcare? In this sense, I suppose, the argument has been over for two generations. Republicans lost the health care debate when they failed to defeat Medicare and Medicaid, and when they PROPOSED and passed prescription drugs.

What's their message, that it's ok for them to give out huge benefits but not Dems? They've failed to make their case, and for the foreseeable future we'll be a different country.

And whent the gov't allows something to happen, it sanctions it. When it allowed the South to keep slavery, it sanctioned slavery. If the gov't refused to penalize people killing white males, then it sanctions it. The old saying goes: Silence is approval. It's pretty straight-forward...no confusion here.

Your argument is so incredible. So an infant is granted personhood after the first trimester, only to be aborted thereafter based on the qualifications you mentioned--none of which often occur. Ok, if you say so.

The problem with pro-abortion folks is your exact reasoning. There's no empirical evidence or logical backing for your argument, and you don't even appear to blanch. An infant is supposedly granted "personhood" after the first trimester, you say, but is still allowed to be aborted. So a person is less of a person because he/she was conceived by rape...after the first trimester? Ok, if you say so.

Will, Master of Law and Master over Reality.

That's OK, Tyler. Back in the day the GOP only had one issue: slavery. How did we turn out on that one? Were we right or wrong?

History WILL show the same about abortion. Hopefully by the time you're sitting in your old folks' home, you'll experience the same sort of shame and pain we have about slavery concerning gov't-approved infanticide. That issue is enough for me, although go ahead and throw taxes in your short list and we agree.

Thanks for your drive by of the U.S. military, by the way. Your most convincing piece of "evidence" was some person's "feeling" about the area. Well, it must be true, since that's the same feeling I get whenever I go into San Francisco and Berkeley or walk through a college campus -- a nebulus "feeling" of creepiness is always a good barometer to things...or it's a giant projection.

As to the stats you've mentioned, what is the general suicide rate of young men in their 20s and 30s? Pretty high, right? So you think the military can cure and prevent every possible suicide, right? How exactly are they supposed to do that? Men in the military have, I believe, normal suicide rates and lower than expected murder rates. What a...

Whether or not he had "issues" is irrelevant, since I'm sure you'd probably admit the presence of millions of folks with "issues" who don't go shooting their colleagues while yelling a well-known terrorist phrase. Many of these people with "issues" don't go to strip clubs for 6 hours at a time, before going to prayer 3-4 times a day in a radicalized mosque. And these same people with issues don't go to Islamist websites to post anti-American views and attempt to get into contact with Al Qaeda.

It seems like you're the one with "issues"...if by "issues" we mean lack of common sense.

Timothy McVeigh attempted to attack the U.S. with Oklahoma City, a payback for Waco -- thus it was terrorism; Nasan attempted the same at...