Marbury vs. Madison, eh? Don't you find it odd and a little disturbing that we allowed a branch of the government to determine its own limits on power?

..her support of abortion. When is he going to excommunicate her?

...the president is lying if Joe Wilson isn't there to shout out "You lie (boy, just for you Maureen)."

I wonder if the outcome would have been different had McCain said "There's no need for nationalized health care. Three states (Oregon, Maine, and Massachusetts) already have it. If other states want it, they can follow suit. The federal government is not here to solve all the problems of the country."

Timothy McVeigh, who bombed a federal building, was executed.

The Weather Underground, who bombed a federal building, were pardoned by Bill Clinton in the closing days of his presidency. The Group's founder, Bill Ayers, is an associate of president Øbama.

Tell me again, which side's extremists get punished and which side's get off scott free?

Marie seems to think her SS taxes went into an account just for her that was supposed to earn interest just for her. That is a mistake a lot of people make. The reality is that her taxes were going to people who were retired while she was working and the system expects her SS checks to be funded by those working when she is retired. This works as long as either A) the age of eligibility is close to the age of life expectancy or B) subsequent generations outnumber the previous ones. Unfortunately, something happened on the road to entitlement nirvana. Life expectancy, which was not much more than 65 when SS passed, has gone into the 80's. At the same time, people stopped having as many children as previous generations, something that...

My company has offices in Europe. Recently, one of the Europeans asked if I would buy a pair of snow boots for his wife and ship them to him. I found out it would cost about $50 to send that $100 pair of boots and asked him if that was worth it. He said that in Europe, that same pair of boots would cost a minimum of $200 so he actually saved about $50.

The area that is now Israel was taken by the British as a prize for defeating the Ottomans in WWI. It was therefore theirs to do with as they pleased. They, the internationally recognized owners of that land, decided to create a Jewish homeland there. There was no "stealing" going on.

It was after WWII, when what was left of Europe's Jews decided to move there, that the Muslims in the area decided it was a problem. The UN recognizing Israel did not help. The Muslims then decided that they would get that land back the way the British had gotten it, by taking it in war. They did not win that war, nor any war they have mounted since.

"why does the vast majority of these farm handouts go to people who are card-carrying members of the Republican party?"

Because Republicans are only slightly better than Democrats when it comes to passing out taxpayer money like it was candy.

Join your local Tea Party today.

Bonitadave, we're not broke due to foreign entanglements. We're broke because we spent the last seventy years fooling ourselves into believing the federal government was some sort of sugar daddy and that the money would never run out. We backed up that belief with a couple of ponzi schemes that are now reaching their inevitable conclusions. Add to that allowing public employees to unionize and practically vote themselves pay and benefit increases and the good ship Lollipop runs aground fast and hard.

If we want to get back to what made this country great, we are going to have to force the federal government to stick to its enumerated powers as spelled out in the constitution. These do not include making sure old people have...