Exactly what freedom are the Muslim "freedom fighters" fighting for? The freedom to kill non-believers?

If the NY Times thinks its advice to the Republican Party should be taken ingenuously, I guess they think their advice to the the Roman church out to be also.

John -- Any credit card company will tell you that the first thing people do when they realize they have accumulated more debt than they can repay is . . . to borrow even more (yes, it's true). If you're going to be bankrupt, why not maximize your enjoyment on the way? What do you think Obama is doing here?

I'll keep that in mind the next time I do something treasonous.

Bayesian inference alone would suggest that you should presume a politician is lying about affairs/prostitution/influence peddling. I'm still waiting for the outrage from feminist groups. Apparently being asked to pay for their own birth control is far more offensive than preying on young girls.

Eventually, the lessons of life persuade children their parents were right all along? Not if, like Peter Pan and the majority of American voters, they never want to grow up.

People who think of themselves as individuals tend to vote conservative. Those who think of themselves as a member of an interest group tend to vote Democrat. Guess who benefits by having everyone think of themselves first as part of a group?

See, you've got it wrong. That USED to be the purpose of our military. It is now to be an equal opportunity employer and to reflect whatever social whims are in vogue today.

You forget that that there are 435 people in Congress who know much better than you do what's good for you. And that's why they're there. To make sure you do what they know is best.

The CBO will always be wrong because one of their forecasting assumptions is that people do NOT change behavior in response to changes in tax law. It's rather like forecasting the second half of a football game by assuming that the teams will do exactly what they did in the first half.

People like to believe that the man behind the curtain is an all-knowing, omnipotent Wizard, and there are plenty of people who believe that they are that man.