Sure if you are Mother Teresa but the Hawkins is talking about those who are too lazy or unmotivated or stoned to get off their butts and take care of themselves or their families. I see this when volunteering for various charities. For some the only question is where can they get a rent voucher or free medical care or how to get to the Food Pantry. These are able bodied young people who could...horror of horrors...get a JOB perhaps? It shocks me how often this plan simply does not occur to them. It is too easy to get help, to bump along at the bottom of the sea living off everyone else.

I live in Oregon and this has been devastating to timber communities. The useful idiots of the EPA and their supporters meddle and simply make things worse. Species die out all of the time as conditions change. Not all change is human based either. I remember well when DDT was banned thanks to the hysterical Rachal Carson induced fury, insects that had been almost eliminated returned with a fury, killed the trees and then they burned. Great job as usual! How much MORE habitat was lost due to the bugs and the burn than could possibly have been a consequence of limited use o pesticides? As the old commercial said, not nice to fool Mother Nature!

Quit posting the same diatribe on every column! You have no basis for your warped opinion.

YES! The Paulinistas and their crazy fanatacism, their inability to face their candidate was not going to be nominated so instead of caring about the country they took their toys and went home, poisoning the waters they left behind. Oh and the anti Mormon bigots who cared more about their own egotisical view of the world than our country. Thanks a lot to all the nuts, the non-voters and the cowards. We have four more years of hell thanks to you!

I do fault Romney's staff who played it too safe, who believed that just because in every other election the incumbant's low popularity and low approval would be their in with the voters. Over and over voters said they thought Romney was more competent and more trustworthy. But the Republican brand is so tainted with four years of Bush bashing that I don't think anything but a full on counter attack would have helped. George Bush left a terrible legacy in his inability to counter the vile and untrue statements made about him. An unchallenged lie becomes the truth with the complicity of the MSM. We need to quit ASSUMING things like an 8% unemployment rate means the incumbent won't be elected or if his turnout is lower the same resul

I absolutely agree with Ann and resent those who claimed that "elites" or the "establishment" nominated Romney. That is insulting to every sincere, non-elite ordinary middle class patriot who voted for Romney because we thought he would be the best PRESIDENT. Not because it would be such fun to watch him debate Obama although we got that anyway. He was well qualified and the right man for this troubled economic time. What Romney faced was the egos or Gingrich and Santorum who cared more about their own deeply flawed candidacies and their own ridiculous claim THEY could do better...based on what exactly? Santorum couldn't even win his own state and Gingrich while brilliant had more baggage than United Airlines.

Well said.. Obama continues to pander those who want free stuff or special rights. Bill O'Reilly got into it last night when Juan Williams claimed the lower income people who voted for Obama weren't voting for freebies. He asked, Did they vote for 8% unemployment? Did they vote for 16Trillion in debt? Did they vote for for all of the other Obama failures? No. They voted their own interests. California has mortgaged itself to pay for the massive influx of low skilled Hispanics and the subsequent generations who have come to learn it';s easier to get freebies than to work. While maybe the original immigrants came to work they were easily corrupted. Then to hear DHS is promoting illegals getting benefits we know what's happening.

You are correct in my opinion. The problem was that Romney was "the worst" except for all the rest of them! Does anyone think Gingrich or Santorum or Perry or Cain or Bachmann would have done better? Each connected with a certain segment of the population and turned off the rest. Romney was if nothing else, the least offensive. The problem wasn't we "picked" the wrong candidate, the problem is the "right" candidate didnt run. Further some of the Senate picks like last time (can we say Angle or O'Donnell) were SO flawed and enabled the MSM to paint all Republicans as Neandrathals who don't care about women. Laugh if you want at the "war on women" it worked apparently. Some are stupid enough to believe the propaganda.

What UTTER baloney. How many Democrats voted against Civil Rights legislation? What Senator was in the KKK? Could it have been a DEMOCRAT? Please name these supposed racist Republicans.

Bravo you are spot on. Talk to young people and they are ignorant of history, the Constitution and free market economics. They believe what their union teachers tell them.

WOW that is spot on and something new. Instead of flogging our candidate put the blame where it belongs, on the stupid voters who were swayed by skin color, happy talk and bribes. There is no logic but tribalism to explain why blacks voted for Obama despite the losses they have suffered since he was President. Ann Coulter's book on the history of racism should have been a primer for approaching this election. Most do not know the Democrat history with respect to racism, KKK and Jim Crow. Next time there probably won't be a black candidate but the lesson still applies. Find a way to hearts not minds since most of the electorate has long since lost theirs.