Conservatives who happen to be black have to live with their friends, in-laws and neighbors. If they are outspoken, it can lead to a lot of friction. Its similar with muslims. Peer pressure can be nasty for the maverick who thinks for himself. Its always reassuring to see posts from Gatorbait, Black Cherokee, Skip and Flagwaver ( though the last 3 don't come around much lately). My experience is if you discuss sensitive subject with 2 balck folks, you get the monolithic PC koolaid response. 1 on 1, you may or may not get disagreement, but you will generally get a factual reasoned discussion of any disagreement.

Same goes if they are white, olddoc, if they make contact with the black community. A large part of the problem is the segregated inner cities. These black folks are easy to lie to because they know nothing about white people first hand. So they believe it when some race hustler screams all whites hate all blacks.

Good questions Reed42. Go for it, Jim5522.

More truth than poetry, lemmi.

golferdude, you really need to be a bit more obscure in your falsehoods. Do you really mean to say a Senator must serve 30 years to qualify for a government pension?

Given the tendency for mobs and immature yahoos to try to escalate and out-stupid any action they see, the presence of left wing protesters looks like a wonderful opportunity for patriotic agents de provocateur (sp?) to start a few over the top moves. For instance, throw something at a cop, or break a window, roll over a car. In no time the OWSers would imitate and escalate. Charlotte riots would provide a nice education for those independents who can't make up their minds.

Hmmmmmmm. May i presume the F in your acronym stands for Fool ?

rpexplorer I often wonder just what it would take to make Wade84 and his philosophical brothers think its time to start burning ammo. The Revolution and the Civil War both were started when the government sent troops to confiscate guns and ammo. That might do it. A "Reichstag Fire" incident and declaration of martial law? Cancellation of an election? Massive obvious undeniable voter fraud that changes the outcome of an election? Financial collapse, followed by mindless yahoos burning and looting in idiotic attempts to somehow "get their fair share"? We live in interesting times, almost certainly a cusp of history. I wonder if the heroes of Valley Forge knew their story would never die?

Tea Party in Wisconsin We'll know we are on the road to recovery when your 3 stooges are defeated at the polls. Even being replaced as Speaker and Minority leader would be a wonderful indicator. The whole body of House Republicans are indicted as majority CINOs when they keep Boehner as Speaker. A couple more elections like 2010 could do it. Nice going re your turnaround in Wi. Good luck to Walker. The recall election will be a huge flag in the wind.

"Give me Liberty or give me Death". Some compromise???