Love you, Katie. This brought tears to my eyes because it's SO TRUE!!

Right on, as usual, Katie. Henry Higgins famously stated, "Why can't a woman, be more like a man?" Henry Higgins had is all wrong. Why can't all women be like Katie Kieffer!! And a lot of men would be better off being like Katie Kieffer, too.

There will always be a few who will open their mouths only to put their foot into it, or attempt to say something and have it come out all wrong. But it sounds to me like Mr. Greenberg is attempting to trash the entire Tea Party movement as radicals because they realize that our rush toward the ruin of socialism as described by Hayek, et al, has reached a point where any more "compromise" will at best leave us with "socialism lite" where our doom is only slightly postponed. Maybe the mathematical series 1/2 + 1/4 + 1/8 + 1/16.... never theoretically reaches 1, but constantly compromising halfway in one direction will have that same effect. Tea party people are not being unreasonable for wanting to stop the one way compromises. Too many...

If a person believes that the Quran is the actual word of God, that person CANNOT be one as described in this article. A moderate Muslim would be like a "Christian" who doesn't believe in the Resurrection. In other words, a moderate Muslim would be no Muslim at all.

Dr. Sowell always makes way too much sense with his comments. But apparently facts and logic mean nothing to crusaders who base all on emotion. "If it feels good, do it," has never been a basis to achieve anything, but it still goes on and on as a source for action amongst lib/progs.

We should have abortion for adult lib/progs.

Oh wait, the Barbary Pirates attacked U.S. shipping until we sent gunships to Tripoli and put an end to it. The reason Islamists didn't attack us for the next 150 years was because they were too weak, and their own caliphate building ideology calls for biding time until strength can be achieved. Has U.S. foreign policy always been the best? No. But to think the Islamists are only angry with us for our policy is totally naive. Ron Paul is right in that some things the U.S. has done have been ill advised, but retreating from the international stage in an age where the oceans no longer serve as full protections for us is not a viable foreign policy, either.

Why is the obvious so easy to see and elucidate by Dr. Sowell, but so totally foreign to so many (lib/prog) others?

The whole idea of a Constitutional Republic is to prevent the "tyranny of the majority." The "tyranny of the majority" has another name: democracy. The founders knew all about the Greek City States who had democracy, which always went down in flame at the hands of demagogic tyrants. So why, starting in the 1930's did the Government, and notably the Government run schools, start referring to our form of government as a democracy, or maybe a "democratic republic"? I'll leave that to the readers to figure out.

Yup, that's the plan. A majority of "real" economist are pointing to the end of the lower payroll tax rates as being the real driving force behind the slowdown we're seeing now, but Obama will try to blame the "Republican Sequester" as the culprit. Sad part is, all his bots will go along with it..