How about this: offer an independednt state to the Pashtuns in Afghanistan. Then watch Pakistan go on the defensive as Pashtuns try to take territory from Pakistan.

To be a postal supervisor or manager or postmaster, you must first have been a unionized mail carrier or sorter. They never hire from outside. This is why management is inept. Spellcheck was such a godsend for postal documents.

The Pashtuns were promised independence by the British Raj. We should give it to them. That should keep Pakistan busy and out of mischeif against Afghanistan. It was always folly to try to build an Afghan National Army. Their loyalty can never be known. It is the militias we should be dealing with and supporting exclusively. Militias come from the same region and ethnicity and their families have known each other for generations and will continue to know each other for generations. No member of a militia would shame his family or himself by being disloyal to his unit. He and his family would never live it down. This is how it worked in our own Civil War. How quickly we forget how it works.

The Kurds need to ally themselves with Sunni opposition groups to end Shiite domination in Iraq. Maybe Russia will sell them some good anti-aircraft missiles? De-Bathification was a bad idea.

You could not market any product using the name or likeness of Elvis Presley or Albert Einstein without getting permission from their estate. Why is it legal for Sarah Palin? Is it because she is a public figure? It is certainly fair game to be able to talk about and give your opinions about a politician, but when you are making a commercial movie for entertainment about someone, I thoing you should need their permission.

Jeanie, under the federal laws in effect, she could not register Obama as a citizen because she was too young, assuming he was born in kenya and the father is a Kenyan. If he was a citizen he lost it when he wa adopted by Barry Soetoro, an indonesian. Indonesia did not allow dual citizenship and US law recognizes the law of the other country in such cases. Obama probably traveled on an Indonesia passport when he went to Pakistan in his youth. His formative years as a child were spent as a citizen of Indonesia.

I agree with everyone so far. The 14th amendment did not apply to Indians, They did not become citizens until the 20th century. "Under the jurisdiction of.." can be defined by Congress. An embassy or consulate is considered the territory of another country. Just set aside portions of maternity wards, put up a Mexican flag, and designate that as Mexican territory. And issue Mexican birth certificates to Mexican Nationals..

It is not an accident that religion and religious tradition has come to be associated with prosperity. But it is not just any religion.

Resulting from the Bible being available in print in the common language, the Protestant Reformation was a true cultural revolution.

People started to think and judge for themselves, and rejected the pompous materialism of the Catholic Church.

In rejecting materialism, they created an engine of prosperity that resulted in the Industrial Revolution.

They believed (for the first time anywhere) that a man, to be a man, had to work and create with his own hands. Wealthy display of any kind was frowned on, but frugality and hard work were required.

This was the ethos that...

The Constitution does not give the Supreme Court the responsibility for interpreting the Constitution.

This is an assumed power that was agreed to in a political compromise.

The Constitution gives a very short list of powers to the federal government, but today it would be a challenge to find some power the federal government does not posess.

It is in the very nature of power to amass more power. Ultimately it will be up to the states and the people to put liimits on federal power, not the Supreme Court.

If the Supreme Court keeps going along with the growth of federal reach, they will ultimately become irrelevant as the states begin to assert their rights under the contract they agreed to, called the...

They did not learn it from Nazis.

The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem spent the war in Berlin advocating the extermination of the Jews from his radio program, before the Nazis thought about it.

Initially the Nazis tried sending Jews to other countries, but no one would take them.

Hitler suggeseted sending Jews to Palestine, but his Arab allies were adamantly against it.

Hitler wanted to smuggle them into Palestine as a way to irritate the British.

Another point. The Israelis did not force Arabs to leave their homes except in a few rare cases where the Arabs were in a militarily sensitive area.

Most Arabs left because they were told to by the Arab leadership, and they were escorted away by British...