That the administration lied about Benghazi is shameful. But it surprises me how little is made of an administration that told quick response teams to stand down when they may have saved some or all of the 4 killed. To put an awkward situation to their campaign ahead of saving the lives of US embassy personnel by doing what the commander-in-chief is suppose to do seems to me by far worse an offence.

I am an old man, whose ancestry is purely English, as best I know. But it amazes me the angst against Jews as a race. As noted above, Christ, His disciples and His early followers were Jews. Yes the leaders in the Temple were possessed by evil spirits, and conspired to have him killed. But does that make an entire race evil? The Japanese in WWII treated prisioners horribly. The Romans treated many other peoples horribly. Does that make all Japanese and Italians evil? Hardly. All races have instances of evil behavior by some in their history. I am disappointed that so few of Jewish decent have accepted the Lord Jesus as God's Son and Savior. But that can be said for may groups. The hatred by some of ethnic Jews baffles me.

Excellent article. However, bare in mind that the education that comes with degrees in mechanical, electrical, and civil, engineering, physics, and mathematics, etc. are still critical to our nations growth and safety, and should not be thrown out with the bath water.

Apparently, the liberals consider it a no-no to drink some water in the midst of a speech. Since most venues provide a glass of water on the podium, this seems like a strange breech of etiquette. Whose rules state that having a sip of water is a breech?.

I totally agree with this comment. Probably in addition to the principal, there should be several others (coach, counciler, couple of teachers) with weapons in a class room lock box so the attacker won't know from whence his/her end will come

I would vote for Thomas Sowell or Allen West over Romney in a second. Unfortunately, neither is running. I did not vote for Obama due to his left wing agenda. As time has past, I have concluded in addition to leaning left, he is a total waste of skin - black or white. He lies, misleads, cheats and steels, etc. Maybe that makes me a racist, but I think it is a matter of character not race - but if it is racist to reject these characteristics, well, so be it.

I feel sorry for the poor lady. As our UN rep, she had no idea what really went down, and as a good soldier, was spewing the line given her. Hopefully, she learned something about Obama and Hillary, and will be more dicerning in the future.

I would be interested in a breakdown of the unemployed engineers. In my day, there were basically mechanical engineers, electrical engineers, and civil engineers, with a few specialties thrown in. Today there are degrees offered as envirionmental engineers, landscaping engineers, etc. Are the unemployed uniformly distributed, or are these new sets of engineers getting the worst of it?

There appears to me to be another reason for treating capital gains differently. Using Dr. Sowell's example, if I had put my $25K in McDonnalds, I would now be worth a billion. With that kind of money, I would probably diversify, selling some and moving it to many other investments, including the small and upcoming. That is good for the business of the country. But if to sell I have to give 50% to the feds and state, I would be much less likey to sell - thus the economy has a tendence to stagnate and atriphy - not good.

Dear 2062: Don't blame it all on 2012. Yeh, we are on a spending binge on someone elses money, but there are many 10 year periods between now and you to get it right. First, let's drill. My understanding is the US has about 120 years worth of oil in the ground. So somewhere in here when oil available is no more, surely there will be political pressure to drill, baby, drill. Also when electricity starts to be rationed, surely someone will have the presence to find coal again, as well as nuclear power. Finally, default on the national debt. Tell those who buy US bonds that they were stupid, and we are wiping that debt away. But you say, that will destroy our credit rating - I say great! No more borrowing.