Not only are there fewer jobs but of those that do still exist, many more are part time jobs. The same person is now working at two or three just to make ends meet. So what does that do to the real unemployment number?

Attempting to embrace every extremist fringe group as the answer to winning elections is just wrong. Chris Christie may not fit that mold (or fit any mold) but he isn’t a conservative by anyone’s definition. This is really a case of the Republican Party abandoning conservative values and being left with nothing to hang their hat on.

Mr. Shedlock has repeatedly expressed the opinion we went back into recession in June or July. 2012. Only manipulation of the numbers and a fawning Obama media have kept this out of the limelight. As the old saw goes, "you can fool all of the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time but you can't fool all of the people all of the time." As the economy continues to slide and civil unrest increases Obama's real agenda will begin to make itself known.

The Chief's viewpoint is skewed by the fact that the purpose of a gun for police is different than it is for the law-abiding public. The job of police is to investigate crime and apprehend criminals. The latter task may involve the use of force with the gun being an important tool. For the law-abiding public a gun is a deterrent to those who would do us harm. Even the most rabid anti-gunner knows it's foolish to advertise their home as gun-free but in California politicians enact 'safe storage' gun laws that have the same effect (see Merced pitchfork murders.) In areas where strict gun controls are in effect violent crime flourishes in direct proportion. It doesn't take a PhD in statistics to figure it out so why, Chief, can't you?

The mess at Democrat controlled Fannie Mae actually started with James A. Johnson. Franklin Raines simply carried on what Johnson had already put in place. Johnson successfully manipulated Congress (donations to Barney Frank) in getting the capital reserve requirement lowered from the 10% normal for banks to 2.5% thus allowing him to massively increase the size of Fannie's portfolio resulting in huge bonuses for himself and other Democrat execs on staff. Johnson also effectively gutted the oversight agency by the same means. Johnson currently sits on the board of Goldman Sachs. That's right, the same Goldman Sachs that was visiting former executive Rahm Emanuel at the White House every day despite being under investigation by the SEC.

I think the thrust of our argument should be that a gun is a deterrent to those who would do us harm. When that deterrent is absent violent crime flourishes. Liberals admit this when they refuse to back up their rhetoric by putting up a gun-free zone sign on their homes. The gun-free zone is, in fact, a magnet to lunatic mass- murderers looking to secure their place in history. Given the facts I think liberals can be defeated by putting forward the charge that liberals don’t mind sacrificing a few more children on the altar of Progressivism if they can exploit the tragedy for their own selfish ends.

One of the primary reasons unions are declining is the guy they put in the White House. It's ironic that while Obama is firmly pro-union his anti-business policies ensure union members are laid off along with the non-union workers.

One would have to be deaf, dumb, and blind not to understand this for the cover-up it obviously is. There are those in a position to know who contend Benghazi was a prearranged 'kidnapping' staged so Obama could appear presidential by negotiating an exchange of Stevens for Omar Abdel-Rahman, the Blind Shiekh, this to shore up his sagging poll numbers in the run-up to the 2012 election. When the two un-enlightened Navy Seals resisted the terrorists assumed Obama had betrayed them and raped and tortured Stevens leading to his later death. This deal was likely set up by the intelligence arm of the Democrat party, the CIA. It isn't that Obama was absent. He was in hiding.

Aren't most of these mass-murderers registered Democrats (or spawn of same in the case of Columbine)? The Sikh temple shooting is the only recent one where a right-wing extremist was the perp.

They don't. They blame it on the places that don't have their enlightened attitude causing their streets to be flooded with illegals guns.