"If Californians understood that their local city councils, school districts, redevelopment agencies, special districts, county supervisors, and state legislators had managed to put them on the hook for over $80,000 of debt per household, they might vote down the next new taxation or bond measure that appears on the ballot." Come on, Californians clearly understand the state debt; they just know that their sugar Daddy, Uncle Barry, will come along and bail them out with the next Troubled Asset Relief Program: TARP II for state and city governments. The federal government (AKA, the taxpayers, you and me) will send the billions and trillions necessary to rescue the California cities already bankrupt, and prevent bankrupt states from

What is it with the CC boys? First Charlie Crist, now Chris Christie. Charlie started out in Fla as a 'Republican,' then went independent, and finally came out of the closet as a Dem. Christie will come out if he loses the 2016 nomination.

Perhaps 98% of urban Repubs don't care about firearms, but the suburban, small town and rural GOP care considerably. We also care about the sanctity of marriage, freedom of speech, freedom to exercise our religion without being sued or harassed, and the authority of parents (not government) over our children. Christie definitely gets Kudos for financial responsibility, but that is only a slice of conservatism.

" RINO's and lefty's posing as Republicans." Which describes the last two GOP candidates. Christy will be the establishment favorite, and Rovian money will get him nominated. Whether he can beat "What difference does it make" Hillary will be another matter.

Why do you use juvenile insults? Capable of nothing else?

We do not support the Welfare and Food Stamp programs; we support the Fatherhood program. That's where Daddy doesn't engage in the act of procreation unless he is ready, willing, and able to take care of and raise the resulting child. If he is not ready, willing, and able to take care of the kid, then Momma uses the first birth control ever used: "No."

Jesus rose three days after His crucifixion death on the Day of Firstfruits, as THE Firstfruit. This is what God wants us to celebrate; not the symbol of a pagan fertility goddess to whom infants were sacrificed. “But now Christ is risen from the dead, and has become the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. For since by man came death, by Man also came the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ all shall be made alive. But each one in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, afterward those who are Christ's at His coming.” 1 Cor 15:20.

Astarte (Easter) day, fertility goddess day, came to be celebrated by the Astarte temple priests impregnating vestal virgins on the temple altar. Their babies, born the following December, would then be sacrificed on the altar of Astarte the following Easter, and their blood used to dye eggs red in celebration of the arrival of the fertility goddess. Thus our ‘Christian’ tradition of Easter eggs. So we can celebrate the traditions of men, incorporated into the church by those who diluted the worship of God with the worship of pagan gods in order to be ‘inclusive’ of pagan celebrants. Or we can celebrate the feasts of the Lord, who established His feasts as signs of His plans for us.

God wants us to remember Him by celebrating His feasts. Instead, we celebrate pagan gods and goddesses by celebrating their feasts and incorporating the ugliest symbols of their feasts, and making them our traditions. Ishtar / Astarte /Ashtaroth (where we got our ‘Easter’) was a Babylonian fertility goddess. The legend was that Semiramis, the widow of Nimrod, died and then came back, as the fertility goddess Astarte, who descended to the Euphrates River in a giant egg, broke out of the egg, and turned a dove into an egg laying rabbit. This happened on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the vernal equinox.

Hey Bud. Watch it. That's high brow stuff for lefties.

Acting like a 5 year old spoiled brat throwing a tantrum on the supermarket floor because Mommy wouldn't buy him a candy bar. Carrey's bathroom humor got old some time ago, and now he's gracing us with his philosophy, which is far uglier and grotesque than his humor.