Yes, what he did was wrong. The biggest problem I see here is that we have decided not to win in Afghanistan, just we decided not to win in VietNam. What position does it put people in when they know that they can't kill the people that want to kill them? Not to justify Bales' actions, but how many of those 16 people had ever given aid of any sort to the Taliban? There can be no such thing as "limited" war. There is also no place for nation building until complete and utter submission of the enemy is had. While I don't think it is our job to fix the world, there is a template for making it work. Look at Japan. Our problem is that we did not break them to our will before we tried to start fixing them.

The cheapest, most reliable form of birth control, is SELF control. Keep your pants on and none of this becomes an issue. This is not about access, or rights, or equality. This is about you trying to make the rest of us pay for your poor decisions. Choices have consequences, and some of us are smarter than others.

While Newt may be carrying Reagan's torch, he has to drop Reagan's mistakes. Where I live the illegals have seriously degraded the whole quality of life. Homicides, drunk drivers, drug gangs, spanish only (yes, if you aren't one of them go away) stores. Until he figures out that a 25 year long crime spree is as bad as a 2 year long one, I cannot vote for him. Reagan got duped into the amnesty program, and Newt, instead of learning from this mistake, is ready to extend the problems it created further into the future. Wake up Newt, I don't want the USA to turn into a squalid, gang led, corruption packed, rat hole like Mexico, or Honduras, or Guatemala.

How long would all but the most essential government services need to be shut down before we save 1.6 trillion dollars? If that is what it takes to balance the budget, then that is what it takes. Shut it down, and don't start it up again until we can afford it. No business (except GM and Chrysler) stays open year after year in the red like this. If I didn't have money for all my necessities, I would have to stop doing other things, like camping, fishing and cable tv. Pare the Federal government back to it's Constitutional necessities, and nothing more. Defend the USA , not the world, make trade amongst the states equal (regulate interstate commerce, not tax and beauracratise it to death), and let the rest go. It's not their job...

One of the other problems with prisons in America is that darn near anything you do is now a crime of some type. There are too many stupid laws that get people locked up. When that happens, they let out people they shouldn't have because of the overcrowding, and then more crimes happen. Fewer laws would mean fewer lawbreakers, and then we could keep child rapists and other such undesirable folks in prison longer, or forever.

So that when my illegal Honduran and Guatamalan neighbor kids break out my vehicle windows, paint my house and call me a gringo b****, I can have them tried under these new federal laws, since my state won't do anything besides tell me I have to clean up the broken glass and graffiti? I don't hate them, I hate that hey are here illegally, but they hate me because I am a white male. Who should be guilty of a "hate crime" in this situation?

We cut all the current "perks" out from all the reps. The only thing I believe they are constitutionally granted is franking and the right to travel freely to session. They get nothing beyond that if I have to pay for it. No jet rides, no 100 person research staff, no overseas junkets.

If everybody has to buy health care, except congress critters, isn't that a 14th amendment violation as well? Do you really think that they are going to be in the same boat as the rest of us?