If that is what your Tea Party guy said, then he is condemning nepotism as well as affirmative action. Your attempted spin is too transparent to be effective, Denis.

Didn't W do well, converting a buffer against Iran for the West into an ally for it? Now, of course, Obama has pulled out and given the Shiite government there free rein to do what it wants, which will be basically what Tehran wants. Isn't it time we had a government that understood the interests of the United States and used its power to further, instead of undermine, them?

Nobody cares what you do Blair, this is not about you. Why do you keep on?

Now we know what you are, Dotty. Goodbye.

You need to diplay your source for that or it is meaningless.

May I suggest that Obama said "my plan will reduce the carbon pollution that is (H)eating our planet " ??? If only Americans would pronounce their aitches these things would not happen. Your "erbs and "umbles are "orrible, what do you all have against the poor old h? What has it ever done to you?

This crooked hag should retire and count her ill-gotten gains, give the public a rest from her incessant political lies. She just makes me believe that those Californians who keep sending her back to represent them must be as crazy or stupid as Californians are stereotypred as being. That being the case, it's little wonder that the once Golden State is now slipping down the order of important economies on its way to bankruptcy.

Well that is what they are doing. They think they really can destroy Israel by a combination of nuke first then conventional power, being 10 x Israel's population in a huge country then if the United States is still standing by, as it will be under Obama, it will launch whatever it can against it, maybe from a freighter close by or some ally like Venezuela. Presumably but not certainly, the U.S. response would be overwhelming and that would'nt worry the mad mullahs, because they need the world to be "washed in blood" in order to hasten the return of their Mahdi (12th Imam, Hidden Imam, take your pick). Remember please, these really ARE mad mullahs, this is not a rational regime like the Soviets used to be, this time it really IS different.

You arrived at what I believe to be the correct conclusion, Ms. Hagelin. If, however, you were to ask a pious Muslim whether or not he could ever vote for a non-Muslim, you would be greeted either with incredulity at the question, or more likely, rage, the usual Muslim response to anything unknown, although in reality they are brainwashed that only Allah can govern Man through Sharia Law, hence the whole idea of democracy to a Muslim is blasphemy. It's a pity nobody told G.W..

You forgot to tell us it should be "it's different from." Americans really have screwed up English, but then, so have the modern, semi-literate English. Notice however, the hearteningly correct omission of the apostrophe in "its private businesses ." Remarkably few these days understand that one does not apply the possessive apostrophe to pronouns. That having said, it's quite likely he dictated this piece anyway.

I think you are wrong. Extremism certainly has caused a lot of bad stuff, but the Christians I meet have been, without exception, very cordial and pleasant folk who only are sad when they learn of my own atheism. Christianity gives people a life structure that benefit many and certainly regular churchgoers live, on average, happier and even longer lives than others like me who don't even engage in dangerous behaviour. It's difficult to explain. I agree with you over some of the extremists you name, but they are not Christianity, which has seen the worst days of its own extremism in centuries past and is now reformed. Now the threat is Islam, which is still red in tooth and claw. Extreme ideology of any kind breeds fanatics, beware of it.