You left out the most important reason why racial preferences are to be shunned. Its because they are UNCONSTITUTIONAL. It is a denial of equal protection of the law to provide preferences for anyone based on race, color or national origin and that is exactly what the social engineers at our top universities and colleges have been doing for years. NO exceptions anymore. Stand on your own two feet and your own merits, not the blood of some ancestor 5 generations removed.

Good job Hugh. This is what Mitt needs to do in the election cycle. Daily. Obama is characterized by these and other one sentence descriptions of his utter failures. Add to the list windmills , algae, tax the wealthy, spread the wealth, Google and Facebook exist due to government, go back to the pre-1967 borders, Bush's fault, and a few other flights of fantasy by Obama and the country might get the picture. The key is to give Mitt the spine to actually call him out on these multitudinous failures.

Did you ever consider the increase in value of the stock in addition to the dividend? Look at the price of the stock. Its all part of the investment. 4% in todays market is not a bad return of income to shareholders as well. What is your money market or bank or Credit union paying? You need an advisor Bud.

A person is an infant who can live outside the womb without the need for the mothers support. That usually takes place at about 7 months. If the infant can live without the need for an umbilical support system, why is it not at that time a person? Many children are born prematurely and survive because they are well-formed by 7 months. So, Clovis is right that a fetus does become a person over the course of pregnancy. In fact, if you kill the mother of a unborn child you may be guilty of a crime against the child also. Delivery is not the date chosen by the law to enforce criminal punishment or damage recoveries. Legally, courts enforce laws that hold a child is a human being or "person" when it is capable of living outside the womb.

Zen: Your arguments are idiotic. The question under discussion is the hypocrisy of leftists claiming that Rush Limbaugh was unique in calling Ms. Fluke a prostitute. The language of the left calling Palin a slang female organ (and worse) goes unnoticed by you.There is no" war on women" by refusing to pay for Ms. Fluke's contraception. Its a matter of the rest of us not wanting to pay for her choices of sex frequency and pregnancy protection. What obligation do any of us have to pay for her choice of lifestyle behavior? There is no war on women or harassment from Republicans or Conservatives. We all have wives or girlfriends we respect.

You are once again uninformed. There is nothing that says that nature has not continued to make more oil or coal and undiscovered deposits keep growing and being identified. So because in two centuries we may run out of it is reason not to use what we have and discover? Do Farmers stop using land to grow things upon because at some point they may not be able to use it again for that purpose?

Ride a bike around or get a horse. They won't make you sick to your stomach but you may have to feed the horse and get new tires on the bike. (made from petroleum).

You have no clue what traditional conservatives are doing as you probably don't know one. I do agree with country is going into the banana republic format and for that you and I can thank Barack Obamination and his freaky little Obaminites and Czars.

Amen to that. Who reads the drivel she spills out any more. I will refuse to read her columns any more. She can write all she believes in but I am not completed to read nonsense.

Really a persuasive comment. How could we have overlooked the brilliance of this post?