I am a veteran receiving my medical care through the VA right now. I would not exchange it for any other care. My doctors are competent and caring; I have had care that would have cost in six figures (into six figures just on one operation I had) anywhere else at a cost somewhere in the low four figures over the last ten years. My opposition to ObamaCare was that I believed, and still believe, that I am likely to be pushed into Medicaid eventually and discover that many doctors won't treat me because of the low reimbursement rates Medicaid pays them. No, I don't want vouchers. I'll wind up with copays twice what I'm paying now and ceilings on how much they'll treat me. No, thanks!

Right at the end, this article gets the whole thing in a nutshell. We have a nation full of people who won't grow up and be adults. It's obvious on the Left. They run around breaking things, soiling things, and generally being juvenile. There's a counterpart on the Right, though. That's all the people who want their taxes cut but say, don't you dare cut MY benefits!

It is both--but that doesn't excuse them. To the extent that it may be inborn, it is nothing more than every other inborn trait that makes someone more likelly to engage in misconduct. Moses knew about this: "the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth." So did St. Paul: "No one doeth good, no, not one; no one seeketh after God." Martin Luther knew about it: "Erbsuende," hereditary sin; his successor Martin Chemnitz referred to the "utter corruption" of our nature. John Calvin called it "total depravity." We are all by nature sinners; the sin of homosexuals is no better and no worse than any other sin, and like any other sin, it can be forgiven, but it is nonetheless sin.

The problem is that the OWS people are largely mis-educated. Both public school teachers and college professors have substituted political agitation and indoctrination for real instruction.

If that was what they wanted, George Soros has been their Koch Brothers.

Go back to when the laws allowing easy divorce passed. Every major church (except some of the churches now condoning homosexuality) opposed those changes in the laws. So for you to suggest that Christians give divorce a pass is unfair. Nor can you suggest that all remarried people should now abandon their present spouses. In one of the most improper marriages in the whole Bible, one thing God never told David was that he must leave Bathsheba.

There are three issues here, and you haven't stated any of them correctly. The first issue is what Jesus, including his apostle St. Paul, has to say about divorce. There are two circumstances justifying divorce. One, stated by Jesus directly, is if one's spouse has committed adultery. (Matt. 5:32) The word used there is porneia--meaning not only narrowly defined adultery but other unchaste behavior. The other is desertion (1 Cor. 7:15). Secondly, homosexuality is not only an offense against a marriage; it is an offense against nature itself. Rom. 1:25-27. There is no way to make homosexuality "not so bad". Finally, the broad availability of divorce was not anything the churches promoted. It was a great mistake.

What's the chance of getting Sr. de la Fuente to run for Alcalde?

There are purchases at grossly inflated prices. There are weapons systems the generals didn't even want. There are weapons systems that come with expensive bells and whistles that aren't necessary for them to be entirely effective, so that those systems could be produced at a lower price without loss of effectiveness. There are subdepartments that could be merged. For that matter, there are silly social engineering projects in the Defense Department that are just as silly, and much more dangerous, than the corresponding projects in education or welfare programs. With our withdrawal from Iraq, there will be considerable reduction in the necessary defense budget without cutting into our basic military capacity. Overseas bases now...

Let's not start playing the "Ouch, that hurts!" game the Democrats keep playing. The game goes like this: Someone proposes a cut in the education budget. Before the "gay awareness counselors" and the "racial sensitivity program" are cut, and before administrative subdepartments are merged, the very first thing to be cut is classroom teachers in poor neighborhoods. Why? Because when these cuts happen, there will be an outcry for restoring the funding--enabling the whacko programs and the bureaucratic topheaviness to continue. We should be careful about doing that in the defense budget. Talk about cutting the budget, and the first reaction is: We'll have to have fewer soldiers. Cut the waste that we all know is in there first.