As Ben Franklin said: "To lift a man out of poverty, make him uncomfortable in it."

Baron, I wouldn't go so far as to say that you are uneducated. You have learned life lessons that cannot be learned at most of our institutions of higher education. Especially since most of them are dominated by the far left. I am ashamed that many of our contempories (children of the 60's) who attended these pseudointellectual institutions were so fooled by their Marxist instructors into believing the tripe they taught and are still teaching to this new generation. Unless we stand up and teach our children the real history of this country and the values our parents taught us, we may be doomed. However, I think that most Americans think the way we do and we are awake now as never before. I pray it is so.

Yeah, Baron. Scary isn't it?

You are so right David, but at this point we are helpless to stop these idiotic pseudo-security assaults on our civil rights notwithstanding their inefffectiveness. We can only slow them down by defunding the TSA. The TSA was conceived by a Republican senator during the Bush administration who had no idea at the time of the monster he created. He has now committed himself to the dismantling of this fascist organization. Hopefully, it can be disbanded during the next Republican administration. You know that Pres. Obama will not allow this to happen on his watch. Unless, of course, he happens to heed the will of the people, which is not likely.

Teufelhunden: That's what I meant. LOL

Baron: You said that recognizing the problem leads the way to doing something about it "gently, factually, and in a persuasive way." The problem with that reasoning is that the opposition is unreasonable. They refuse to see "the truth" even when the evidence is pushed into their faces. It reminds me of a line from a movie when the friend of the protagonist saying that when "caught redhanded, deny, deny deny " They either refuse to see the truth or know the truth and refuse to admit their lies. We can't gently persuade them. We have to bury them and their lies and wipe the dirt from our hands and walk away from the grave.

Jo: You cite over 300 groups to be represented at the anti-rally to protest the Tea Party and the people who attended the Restoring Honor rally on 8/28. It's frightening that so many groups/people can be so mislead by the Leftists and those who want to take this country away from those of us who treasure this country and its founding documents. And the fact that they have to be bussed in is especially telling. This is all inspired by the union leaderships who are so invested in their desire to hang onto their power and the easy availability of funds stolen from the rank and file to forward their selfish agenda instead of funding the pension funds for their members. This is grand theft and every union leader involved should be...

Good Grief why has it taken so long for the electorate to see through this Obama who lives in the People's House? It was all laid out during his campaign just how radical and bought-by-special- interests he is.......from the unions to ACORN, the biggest and most corrupt wasters of taxpayer money ever, but we (not I) voted for him anyway. Now, many of us (not I) who did vote for him have a huge case of .BUYERS REMORSE. If this $50 Billion (not a stimulus, but a so called "infrastructure bill") is passed by Congress it will serve as a taxpayer subsidy of Union labor that WE THE PEOPLE don't think we should have to pay for. Besides, if I remember correctly the $872 Billion Stimulus bill passed in March of '09 was supposed to include...

Hey Bob, are you talking about "Repugnantcans and CONservates in Congress or your fellow citizens? If so I am highly insulted. My Dad and his generation fought against that Mein Kampf mindset. Where was your Dad or Grandfather during that time? You are talking about normal responsible citizens who work for a living and want to contribute their fair share, and not a dime more.

Yeah, Bill. It's the old double standard at work again.