Mr. Adams maybe they were drunk maybe they were not. Either way that is certainly not worthy of your blaming the victim mentality. When someone is badly beaten, as it seems these two were, it is very normal to not have any memory of the attack or preceding events. What's wrong with you Mr. Adams? You don't have to approve of hate crime legistlation (I do not) to have sympathy for victims of a brutal assualt.

Legalize it. Let the free people living in a free society put whatever they want into their body. Save billions on enforcement. Regulation would effectively eliminate all illegal profits. Tax it and use the revenue to educate thereby lowering the number of people abusing and addicted to it.

It makes so much sense.. why am I not suprised we don't do it.

Can we just admit that the passing point guard was a terrible analogy? I mean, the point guard does have to go play defence after the basket.

"the unholy spawn of Tony Soprano and the Michelin Man"

I don't car who you are, that is a great chime.

The 2nd to last paragraph is a serious strech. "It is dishonest to argue that the right wants to impose its values to anywhere near the extent the left does. This can be demonstrated to a fifth-grader: Who wants more power -- those who want to govern a big state or those who want to govern a small state?"

Really? Dishonest? Democrats and Republicans want to impose their values equally and to say one does it more is like having a name calling fight between two fifth graders. The actions of both parties when in power have shown us in the past decade that they grow the government more than any previous administation and attempt to impose their own values. To not see this is to ignore recent history.

He was a successful politician, of course his "tactics were often low and dishonorable." And he played just like the author in this article, beginning with "(may he rest in peace)" and then going on to blast him. Of course he could trample on conservatives without a "pang of conscience." Did you forget that he was still a liberal politician in a struggle for control of the most powerful government in the world? Were you expecting a boy scout or are you just extremely naive?

Stating that he wasn't a model civil servant (what does that even mean) is ridiculous. The fact that he served 25 years in the Senate shows some degree of being a model civil servant, possibly just not the model the author would like to see. Obviously...

"Iraq's prime minister Nouri al-Maliki declared "victory" over the United States)"

Does anyone know exactly where this quote comes from?

We will not know how Obama's presidency will be viewed in respect to other presidencies until decades after it has passed. To postulate that he is, "already legitimately ... compared to the worst Presidents in American history," is borderline ridiculous. Legitimately by who? People who oppose him in the political arena? With that line of thinking every president will be considered the worst of all time.

The first four points in the article are great but the last point is biased, premature and just plain ignorant. Please use some perspective as we are only eight months into a four year term. And while I am on the topic the analogy to baseball is a poor as well. Baseball statistics are objectively quantifiable, while...

President Obama chooses to fly to Germany to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and is criticized by conservatives pundits for again leaving his country in a time of war with an ongoing financial and political crisis. Surely his time would be better spent working in Washington for the American people rather than wasting time and resources on a needless trip to Germany...

Your whole premise is a serious strech. We trained cubans to fight in Miami then sent them to take on an army and left them without support. Hardly comparable to the current situation. A speech that calls for reopening of dialogue between two countries as grounds for promise of military support should the populous decide to revolt. Please, this is junk logic.