I believe there should be a minimum wage, but increasing it now is sheer folly. Like the labor laws in France that keep the well connected employed and the not-so-connected in their place, the minimum wage increases since 2007 have calcified the status quo, and we now have an entire generation of poor young folks unable to step on the first rung of the ladder to the middle class. President Obama ran in 2008 on amorphous ideas of "hope" and "change", but his actual policies have stifled the dynamism that makes the American Dream possible. He simply doesn't understand how things work in a capitalist economy, and insists on command-and-control of American business from Washington DC, exercised through regulation, mandates and taxation.

The song can't be worse than "Ebony and Ivory" now, can it?

Kathleen Sebelius telegraphed the campaign re:ObamaCare to blame its horrible start on Republicans. But that just reinforces the utter folly of ramming thru complicated legislation on a party line vote, and leaving so many critical details (like the contraception mandate) to regulations written by unelected official, then expecting the elected Governors of the other party to implement most of the architecture of the program. After years spent demonizing opponents, how can O/C supporters (many of whom held their noses because it didn't go far enough to single payer) expect even tepid support from moderate members of the other party when the original legislation didn't have so much as a fig leaf of compromise (e.g., tort reform)

As Americans, we believe that human beings are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, among them the right to life. It is bewildering to me that according to liberals, this endowment actually is alienable based on the convenience of the mother, subject only to certain man made distinctions ("trimesters"). Madame Boxer's comment is astonishing.

Marriage wasn't created for the loving couple - it was created to provide a lasting sustainable foundation to raise children. How else to explain laws against incest, bigamy and polygamy? Should incest laws apply to SSM's? How about requiring blood tests?Those do not apply to SSM's but make a world of difference for traditional couples.

Message: We know what's best for you.

Loser.

So what more affects the prospects of an inner city boy growing up today in the same neighborhood Dr. Sowell did: Jim Crow laws of the South, or being taunted as "acting white" by his classmates? What more affects his brother, anti-miscegenation laws or the fact that his father is not part of his life? If either of these boys succeed, they deserve a great deal of credit. If they fail, people shrug their shoulders and ask what more government can do to alleviate their suffering. That is how we reached the soft bigotry of low expectations.

And of course, proponents of higher minimum wages omit the fact that increases disproportionately benefits BIG business, over small and mid-sized businesses, based on the simple concepts of "economy of scale" and entry costs to do business. Same for ObamaCare and paid sick/vacation time requirements.

When you consider Mr Obama's strategies concerning the Stimulus, ObamaCare, Iran, Simpson/Bowles, Israel/Palestine, Energy policy (BP, Keystone,Gren energy), Afghanistan, the Arab Spring (Egypt, Libya, Syria) and the Obama Sequester, onehas to wonder whether he will be known as "The Great Miscalculator".

You understand, of course, that the vitriol has continued long after Justice Thomas was confirmed, right? And it's not as though Anita Hill alleged a rape, like Juannita Broadderick did, or unwanted physical advances, like Kathleen Willey did, or filed a contemporaneous complaint, like Paula Jones did, nor did he actually engage in extramarital relations in the workplace with an unpaid intern, like Monica Lewinsky did. But who did the MSM seek to protect in each of those cases? Hint: Not the victims of sexual harrassment. THAT is the double standard.