Funny, the leftists are always ranting about securing our rights--to big screen TVs, self-esteem, broadband access, and now perhaps even "nappy-headedness"--but they routinely try to deny us the rights that we are specifically acknowledged in the Bill of Rights as inherently possessing, e.g. the right to keep and bear arms. I wonder why that is. . . ?????

"Left Angle" disagrees with Dr. Sowell, so he slurs him as "Uncle Thomas." Typical leftist filth. Ad hominem attacks instead of reason. This garbage is always at the surface or just beneath it with you left-wing, freedom-hating radicals. Why don't you move to a country that already features your totalitarian tendencies and leave this one alone? Or must you have the mental image of the hobnailed boot stamping the human face, forever?

I teach in a disorderly, all-black "inner city" high school in north Baton Rouge, but I care deeply for many of the kids there. Nonetheless, it's a fact that many of these kids believe that the mysterious "THEY" blew the levees in '05. After one kid (refugee from New Orleans) in my class expressed that opinion, I asked how many believed that, expecting to show him that he was pretty lonely in holding such a bizarre opinion. Imagine my chagrin: the majority of the kids in class believed it, too! Obviously, they hear that at home. Other sad facts: 1. Refugees from N.O. practically destroyed the River Center facility in Baton Rouge. Guess their color? 2. A refugee from N.O. confronted a Parish Police Juryman (known as County...

Obama was a pig in a poke, and everybody who reads & posts here knew it BEFORE the election, for all the good it did us. Anyway, if Arizona will continue to lead the way in resisting at least some aspects of his virtual dictatorship, I'll do my best to support them. As a matter of fact, I wrote Gov. Brewer recommending she demand immediate action from Oz, activate her National Guard if he refuses, and call out the militia if Oz federalizes the Guard. I also encouraged her to call for volunteers from other states, to make it clear that it's not simply "those bad people in AZ" who view our national borders as, well, NATIONAL borders. And yes, I volunteered.

Even if I knew nothing at all about Oz himself, I could figure out what I need to know simply by reading the diatribes of Ground Control and others of his ilk.

You way-out leftists make the most outlandish claims imaginable, and it all makes your hatred of this country & its roots so starkly obvious. You even start rambling against Texas, white people, old people, and Lord knows how many other categories. That also shows just how you view people--that we have meaning only through our collective identitities. We've had enough of this mindset already, from the communists, Nazis, KKK, etc.

Charlotte, don't hold your breath waiting on your reparations, either. Such a scurrilous agenda, beneath the contempt of anyone with any...

Since he captured our capital in Jan. 2009, and has almost totally scattered our forces subsequently, he's got to figure out a way to finish us off and make further resistance futile. The Germans did so against the French in 1940, and it took massive outside intervention to eventually save them (read: GB & esp. USA).

So, let's think 1775 and beyond: Philadelphia is in British hands, and most resistance has been scattered. It is up to General George Washington and his small, poorly-organized and -trained army to remain in the field, as a "force in being," until resistance flowers in the countryside and/or the French come to his aid. . .and I don't see the French fleet on our horizon :-(

The existential question: do we...

Switching to a military metaphor, Oz seized the initiative and maintains a pace of operations that we can't match. He hits us on every front at once, paralyzes our ability to respond deliberately, and bets that we will not respond more flexibly and rapidly than is our wont. It's May 1940, and he is playing the role of the Germans--we are the French--and he is counting on speed & violence in every dimension to overcome our set-piece defensive mindset. He does not slow down while we isolate problems one at a time and defeat them in our plodding, methodical manner. He transitioned from the attack phase in early '09 against a well-established enemy (us), to the pursuit phase as our defenses became increasingly disorganized by the flood of...

Kevin is constrained by a Western view of the rules of evidence and of civility, so he stops short of accusing Oz as I will: intentionally undermining his own (?) country.

Kevin cites a lot of the available evidence, but substitutes the legally-defensible idea of "delusion" for the far less pleasant reality: the Wizard of Oz in our White House knows exactly who he is, what he is doing, and what he stands for. He is intentionally tearing apart the foundations of this country, which he views as a Capitalist Colossus that enslaved blacks and acted self-righteously throughout history to exploit and dominate others.

Remember how Lenin sabotaged Imperial Russia's war effort in order to use the crisis to bring about the "hope &...

Get a clue. OBVIOUSLY, when conservatives call on Oz to part the waters and "plug the damn hole," we are doing so tongue in cheek. We KNOW he can't. We KNOW it's not his job to "don a scuba suit," etc. We also KNOW that he acts like he can & should intervene in every situation, wave his magic government-lawyer wand & fix it, whatever it is.

We object to his empty posturing, and we object to his trampling of the Constitution. But when he does it all the time, we're going to poke fun at his helplessness now that his windbag bluster ain't "plugging the damn hole." And yes, we are going to continue to jab at him for his wrongheaded blundering & unconstitutional meddling. In the Bush days, the leftists (aka Democrat Party) stopped all...

I hope it doesn't turn out that your most fateful misconception is your failure to recognize that we will not stand by while you destroy our civilization. Hopefully we can rectify your mistakes peacefully, but please note that we realize we have had to use other methods when "in extremis." Indeed, the very ideological foundation of our country as an independent political entity is based upon a "right of revolution" as espoused by Locke, Rousseau, and others.

Your view of human nature has led to such "profundity" as, "It's the economy, stupid." Ours has led us to "Live free or die," and "death before dishonor." Keep your hands off our Constitution and don't try to foist a Utopia upon us that we will not tolerate.