SCOTUS has not been very good at interpreting the Constitution over the years. The list of mistakes, usually based on the personal viewpoints of the justices, is long. It will get longer if Obamacare survives.

Dr. Sowell's observation about wealth and age groups has always made me laugh when I hear how bad-off the elderly are in the US. A few years ago, a showed that those above the median age owned 70 percent of the wealth. This is only natural, but the constant drum beat for more Social Security taxes and more breaks for the elderly would make one think the elderly are all impoverished. A little story. When my daughter recieved her first pay check, she asked me about F.I.C.A. I told her that was Social Security taxes for the elderly like her uncle and grandfather (uncle worth millions and grandfather worth close to a million and both healthy and working part-time). Her response, "they have their own damn money, they don't need mine."

It's a People magazine country. With the advent of the computer and internet, no one under 45 thinks they have to know anything, just Google it if you need to know anything. The so-called Progressives have messed-up our system of government and our schools to the point that the average person has no clue about incurring massive debt and dependency. More people are influenced by Oprah than by Mr. Sowell, that is the unfortunates facts.

I disagree with Mona on NAFTA. The initial aspects created exports and jobs. Those exports and jobs were in sending our manufacturing in the midwest to Mexico and other countries. Such deals with unequals in standard of living and regulation ultimately creates industrial flight and lowers the standard of living for the common man to that of the other countries. Perot was right, and he made millions from the deal shipping US jobs elsewhere like he predicted.

I am tired of hearing how smart he is and that he went to an Ivy League law school. All of us who went to law school in the 80's knows that there was a quota system. A white male student (I think he went to Northwestern) was planning on going to law school and wanted to go to one of the best. He applied to all the top law schools and was uniformly turned-down. He decided to test the situation by changing his race to black which resulted in a 50% success rate. He did his applications again as a black female and reached an 80% success rate. He changed his background several different ways, the best being a hispanic female with a 90% success rate. So Obama going to an Ivy League school in the 80's doesn't tell me much. He is devious, not smar

Milton Friedman and Thomas Sowal are right about the mistaken view that centralized planning from administrative agencies is better than the free market. As Friedman told Phil Donahue in an interview when Donahue attacked Capitalism as unfair, "where do you find these paragons of virtue" to plan the economy and be "fair". It does not exist. I have dealt with state and federal administrators for over 20 years, it always comes back to the same thing. "Do it my way or I will cut-off your funding." Power corrupts, even the best of us, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. There lies the genious of the checks and balance system. Nobody gets too big for their britches so the people can freely operate for their individual pursuit of...

This was the flaw that Toqueville saw in the American system. At some point the have-nots would vote themselves what the haves had produced with their own toil. Until the advent of the so-called Progressives, the responsible leadership of the major parties understood this problem and resisted the temptation to race to the bottom.

Another stat: 56% of fathers of illegitimate children believe they can be replaced as a father by any other male. In other words, they are just sperm donors. What is even better, a similar number of single mothers agree. The cause is more than just the schools, or even liberals, it is long-festering mentality of live for today (or the moment) with no thought of consequences or responsibility. When we decided that we were the "richest country in the world" and "nobody should be judged about or denied" basically anything, we went astray. It usually takes two generations to waste-away the wealth of a "rich" family, and the country is well on its way to make that axiom true.

I would warn those who think Obama is unraveling that polls don't count, electoral votes count. A new census, run from the White House, for the first time in decades, will rewrite the electoral map. I would not be surprised to see very large increases in electoral votes for traditional blue states and equal losses in flipping red states and fly-over country (like my state of Ohio which is slowly flipping back to red), except Illinois. Therefore, Obama could lose Ohio, Missouri, Virginia, Minnesota and Wisconsin, but still win with NY, California, Illinois, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Mass., DC, and a few other states. Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Florida will be the big battleground states in the 2012 election. Obama knows one thing,...

I laughed until I cried. All great comedy/satire has many elements of common sense truth in it. If you are not a comedy writer, you should be. That's right, you cannot be a comedy writer because you are politically incorrect.