As opposed to taking money from people at gunpoint and giving it to other people? "Bleep" the people who earn a living, I guess. Libertarians generally believe in actual charity, and real compassion, not the type that forces people to give their money to causes and others that they don't choose. Why do you "get the bill" for my actions, exactly? Did I ask you to steal other people's money to treat my afflictions? First, you impose your controls over one aspect of my life, like health care, then you use that as an excuse to restrict my risk-taking because it costs you money? Try to think a bit more deeply about these things.

What about carbon taxes, cap and trade, which he wanted to impose? Has he found religion on that issue? Regardless of his other opinions on free trade and small government, cap and trade or carbon taxes would undo any good that he can do by eliminating tarrifs. He would still be better than Obama, of course, but is he the best choice?

What's so hard to understand about "Leave it up to the states?" Why is murder a state offence and drugs and alcohol a Federal offence? Leave it up to the states. Why is it crazy to do that? In a world in which we don't mess around with other countries, there would be no Bin Ladens to threaten us. This guy and his homicidal ilk did not come out of nowhere, you know. Let's start the process of getting the heck out of other people's countries and stop playing World Policeman. It might take a couple of decades or more to undo the damage we've already done, with all the good intentions paving the road to hell, but it can be done.

The United States should not be involved in these foreign entanglements (to use George Washington's words). Support for Israel requires huge sacrifices by the USA, and I cannot see why we have to endure that. Israel is certainly more democratic, more well-run, and more Western than the Arab countries, or indeed any of the Moslem countries that hate it, but what business is it of ours? The Israelis are more powerful than any collection of their neighbors, and can defend themselves easily, as they've shown time and again. We should just get out and stop meddling in the Middle East. We can assert that "they hate us for what we are" forever. It doesn't make it true. They hate the USA because is supports Israel. When I lived in...

I think it was noble to help the victims of the Nazi horror, of course. It would have been nice if they hadn't been given my grandmother's house in Jerusalem, and if my grandmother had been allowed to return from her visit to relatives in Lebanon in May 1948, when the State of Israel was founded. She lived in Lebanon for the rest of her life, never having been able to reclaim her own property, nor the belongings within it, including childhood photographs of herself and her sisters and the rest of her family.

The holocaust, ghastly as it was, did not give anyone the right to physically expel the then-current inhabitants of Palestine and take over their property.

Water under the bridge now, of course, except that people...