Exactly. Jan Brewer has been a good gov here in Arizona. She stands behind the people who elected her and stands up to the people who get in her way. It's her job.

What the hell are you saying?

Well my imaginary friend says I get to drive the bus that takes up to heaven. So there.

Oh yes, everyone with an IQ above room temperature knows all the reasons CRA was a great idea. Unfortunately no one cared to discuss the reasons it was a bad idea. As a result Fannie May and Freddie Mac have been instrumental in breaking the US Treasury.

As a conservative I agree with Mister McCullough. Ann Coulter is a lot of things, many of them good, but one thing she is not; she is not a paragon of intellectual fidelity. We once had conservative talk show hosts, such as W. F. Buckley who was simply awesome. I miss Buckley and I resent that conservative opinion is now represented by such mental midgets such as Sean Hannity and Ann Coulter. Where are the Florence Kings of tomorrow? Why are all the conservative writers of today so utterly devoid of anything resembling an original idea. It wouldn't be so bad but the liberals are even worse. Not an idea in a room full of those chanting robots. By what process are our thinkers so utterly vetted from mainstream journalism?

The issue is that the law is seldom applied. The attorneys simply decide on a settlement to make the accusation go away, split the take and seal the case. The actual litmus test is whether the harasser was in a position to compensate the harassed person in some way. Generally this means an employee who feels compelled to engage in sex in order to benefit. Where it falters is that the person being harassed is compelled to complain and file an action against the harasser. In the case of Monica Lewinsky (a 20 y/o intern working in the White House), even though Bill Clinton was certainly guilty of harassment by any standard, the press and such organizations as the National Organization for Women chose to ignore Clinton's crime.

What an excellent perspective on sexual harassment. The only person I have observed with a more educated and considered opinion on the subject was Justice Sandra Day O'conner, who wrote the law as it currently exists. Of course what good is the law when the attorneys simply harvest the proceeds of a settlement and the court seals the case. We MUST stop this dirty business and air these settlements in public.

Another glitch is that some states, like Arizona, no longer require a permit to carry concealed. If your not specifically prohibited, you are implicitly permitted. And this is the law that should be considered by congress. That is; Congress should require that states like California, where only movie stars and politicians can obtain carry permits, be required to become either "will issue" for all or "will not issue" for all. Using the right granted by the Bill of Rights as some sort of cookie jar is so cynical as to be absurd.

China is about the same size as the US but has half the arable land. It has seven times our population to feed and shelter. The one child policy is rough, but so is starvation. A factor seldom discussed is that an emerging culture of capitalists have become so affluent that they can pay for "black children," or children who, because they are the offspring of parents who already have a child, will be unable to enjoy the support of the communist party. This means they will not be allowed to go to crummy schools and live in crummy housing and ride to crummy jobs on crummy public transportation. They are very much symbolic of what is wrong with China and represent a growing threat to the established leadership.

Ron Paul is a simplistic dolt. He would make a good president if it were 1954 but the idea that the US (or any other NATO member) can simply pack up the tent and come back home is too dangerous a position to take seriously. I too would like for him to describe his views on what constitutes a "strong military."