"Because somewhere along the line the “Fourth Estate” became a Fifth Column." You nailed it Derek! This comment will one day be engraved on the grave stone over Uncle Sam's grave.

A question I have often asked myself: Are we dealing with ignorance and incompetence or with evil? Or does it matter? Ignorance and incompetence produce the same outcome as evil! Unfortunately all three are very difficult to eradicate!

"Get them out from under political and union control and restore freedom, competition, and entrepreneurship." From your lips to God's ears - I hope. When a city like Detroit has degenerated into a blight one has to ask if it should be renovated or demolished in order to start over. Those who can get out either have or will. Those who cannot should probably be relocated as would be appropriate if a city were devastated by a colossal natural disaster, even though Detroit's disaster is completely man-made.

Although I voted for Romney in Nov 2012 he was my last choice for President during the Republican primaries. I voted only to get rid of Obama, not because Romney or the Republican Party offered an inspiring or exciting agenda for the country. This was the last election I will ever vote in because I now loathe the Republicans as much as the Democrats. May they both rot in hell for destroying this nation!

The statists want regulations so that all prices and all costs are the same, which means that the government regulates all prices and costs to insure uniformity, through subsidies and penalties. We are definitely in the Orwellian Age in which technocrats and bureaucrats, not entrepreneurs and individuals are the predominant forces in society. Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain are the symptoms of a disease which has infected the entire world. It is a virulent virus which is a deadly combination of globalism, socialism and progressivism: the same disease which killed the Soviet Union in the 1990's.

If the Republicans offered them a principled and courageous candidate who stood in stark contrast to Obama maybe they wouldn't have stayed home but voted instead. Don't blame the voters, blame the feckless cowards who run the Republican Party.

At this point the snowball is too large and rolling down the mountain too fast to stop it. Those who are in its path will be crushed and for the most part that means the elderly. Talking about it and writing about it are futile at this point. Disaster is inevitable because the man causing it is incorrigible, arrogant and unfettered by the cowards in the US Congress who should impeach him.

What he's doing in Israel is distracting Americans from their problems at home. After Israel there will be other diversions. He does not want Americans to have any extended time to reflect on the dismal economy, attacks on the Constitution and our liberties because they might actually realize that he is an empty suit and snake oil salesman, not the Messiah he claims to be. He travels around the country, the world, always campaigning, always shooting his mouth off, always creating diversions and distractions (with the media's willing assistance) to keep people from realizing he is the greatest fraud in the history of this nation, even worse than FDR.

"President Obama's job approval polls have dropped to 46 percent..." Still too high!

“I find it pretty bizarre,” he said. “At the same time he wants us rebuked, he’s saying we need to have a conversation about race in Philadelphia – which was our point in the first place.” The mayor is saying you can speak about race as long as you follow his guidelines and agenda. In other words, don't go quoting white people who by virtue of being white are racists and bigots. Strange, is it not, that white people are accused of creating "stereotypes"?