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..

70% of the earth is covered by oceans or seas. So the odds of one of these things even happening over land is less than 1 out of 3. And then to occur over an area of land that is actually somewhat populated is even much smaller that that. At one every 50 to 100 years or so, most of which will occur over water or desert (e.g the Tunguska event) I'm like Alfred E. Neuman. "What, me worry?" If these space rocks are too small for us to track with current technology, I say, "Let's do nothing!" Even this last one that against all odds did occur near a city caused no fatalities, for crying out loud.

Yep. But even leaving out the Religious angle, societies from the most primitive and pagan have virtually always agreed that marriages are between men and women, even if polygamous in nature. Its a "Natural Law" thing as much as a religious one. And since I myself am a practicing Catholic as well as having libertarian beliefs. I don't say this lightly. My defense of the traditional meaning of the word "marriage" goes well beyond Church dictates.

I don't care what gays do. It's their life. But I can't abide the idea that if two gay people want to live together that they should be able to be "married" as if they were a couple capable of producing members of the next generation strictly on their own. What is wrong with those "Civil Union" laws? Why do homosexuals insist on a change in the meaning of the word "marriage"? I'm am very libertarian about most things, but I still believe that words have meaning. That is my problem with this whole "gay marriage" thing. I like Stossel in most cases, but I think he missed in on this one, also.

Dr. Sowell is spot on as usual. What a great country we would have if people like Dr. Sowell held all the 546 positions in the Federal Government. But I'm afraid the sheeple will never let that happen. That "free stuff" is just too inviting.

Obama's only goal is to destroy the opposition. Anything that resembles proper executive branch actions is purely coincidental and an illusion. Any action to uphold and defend the Constitution is non-existent. Obama is the worst threat this country has ever faced.

Well, duh. The gubment believes they have a right to ALL our money, and that they should determine how much each of us should keep by some method determined only by them. Unfortunately, anarchism works more poorly than having some government. and no government no matter how small, can function without some form of taxes. But the only fair tax is one that charges everyone the same percent, whether on earnings or consumption, similar to the tithe. And the only fair system is the free market with private ownership to each what they produce. Can such a system ever develop in the real world where cronyism ALWAYS occurs? Probably not. Such has it been since ancient times.

O course it's STUPID! But this is what Obuma wants!! He wants damage to the U.S. that he can blame on Republicans to boot. He wants the U.S. to slide backwards because he believes that a strong U.S. is bad for the world. He's not a real citizen of this land who cares about his country even if his (doubtful) birth certificate IS valid. He considers himself a "citizen of the world" who must force the evil U.S. to be like e.g. Argentina so the rest of the world can be "saved." It's like saving my poor neighbors by destroying my own house. Yeah, that works.

Ha, the Federal Minimum Wage laws do NOTHING but skew the economy and make it more difficult for young people to find entry level jobs. No government entity should be interfering with private contracts which is what an agreement between a business and a worker to exchange labor for a certain wage is. As long as the two parties agree, WTF is the government's business interfering with this agreement? As pwregan wrote below, it's about unions and nothing more.

Good article, Brent. Although I am more Libertarian than Conservative, of course I have much more in common with the TEA Party than the RINO's. Good TEA party philosophy Republicans only need a little preparation on dealing with the MSM who want nothing more than to create "Gotcha" moments with conservative/libertarian candidates while giving all liberal/progressive ones passes on anything and everything. When that happens the wins will only increase.

This stuff is so obvious it barely is worth explaining. Yet, those IN the Fed and the Government keep going along on the fiction that they can fix everything and prevent all problems... while they continue to wreck everything and create far more problems than they ever solve. Dr. Sowell should be named the chairman of the Fed, then he could oversee its orderly dismantling.