The motto of the Occupy Random Places movement seems to be: "Ask not what you can do for your country; ask what your country can do for you."

...means quite what you think it means.

"Oh, and she’s a mom and wife who has kept her priorities in tact."

She's kept her priorities in a spirit of "consideration in dealing with others and avoiding giving offence"?

Or do you mean she's kept her priorities intact?

...that voted in ObamaCare. Why is anyone surprised?

Granted, Congressman Johnson has a medical excuse for being a bit off. What accounts for the other 218 "yes" votes?

You write: "Religion purports to create morality where none existed before. America and humanity have been buying that lie forever."

Allow me to share one of Dennis Prager's favorite questions with you:

* You're walking down the street in a bad part of town.

* You notice a group of men following you.

* You learn they have just emerged from a Bible study class.

Does the fact that they're Bible students make you:

a) more worried?

b) less worried?

c) no difference?

Dr. Sowell writes: "Those who mine history for sins are not searching for truth but for opportunities to denigrate their own society, or for grievances that can be cashed in today, at the expense of people who were not even born when the sins of the past were committed."

In The Mikado, Sir William Gilbert adds to the little list of people who would serve if a victim must be found for an execution, "The idiot who praises with enthusiastic tone / Each century but this and every country but his own."

I guess that makes every production of The Mikado a terrorist threat.

At least it's dolphin safe...

Steve Chapman writes: "In 2007, scholars Ruben Rumbaut and Walter Ewing investigated the issue for the Immigration Policy Center and concluded that 'if immigrants suddenly disappeared and the country became immigrant-free (and illegal-immigrant free), crime rates would likely increase.'"

Is that per-capita, or total? If we take the IPC's numbers at face value, I can see how removing a low-crime population from the mix would cause the per-capita crime rate to increase. But the total number of crimes overall would still *decrease* -- unless the IPC asserts the illegal immigrant crime rate is exactly zero.

Of course, this ignores the fact that every single illegal immigrant has committed a felony by entering the country...

Lon writes: "The Teaparty movement is a right wing movement. That is why it holds its events when a Democrat is in the White House and not when a Republican was."

OK, then let's see the reports on the Tea Party rallies when Clinton was in office. Oh -- can't find any? They didn't exist back then?

Maybe it took deficits ten times what they were under a Republican congress and a corresponding growth in the intrusiveness of the State to wake people up.

As Larry says, "Better late than never".

Charles Johnson has seen the Open Letter. So far, the only response I've seen is where he highlights Viking's hateful and intolerant use of the word "Kenyan" to describe the President.
(Jan 26, 2010 - 9:29 AM EST)

I didn't know "Kenyan" was hate speech. Oops! I mean "the K-word".

Puh-lease!

Mr. Johnson, there's an Irish proverb: If everyone tells you you're drunk, you'd better sit down.

Tim writes: "The very idea is absurd. You cannot find common ground with someone who wants you dead."

Sure you can. Six feet of it.