Sharon Angle should go away. She snatched defeat from the jaws of victory

The NH situation you site is a BAD example

The KEY point here is, the divorced parents agreed to JOINT decision-making about all matters relating to their daughter's upbringing as part of their divorce. The father is FULLY within his parental rights to demand that his daughter be exposed to educational environments other than, what he considers, her mother's home-school brain washing. From HIS equally valid point of view, he doesn't want his daughter to grow up, being a complete religious nut case. After she is eighteen, and an adult citizen, the currently ten year old girl can make her own decisions

I certainly agree with you about Obama speech, but here you would just as readily tromp on parent rights; the rights of the...

This is something that is unacceptable from ANY president

This would be wrong if Bush had done it, and it is equally wrong for Obama to do it

They are not forced to buy insurance. Rather, they would finally be required to shoulder their portion of the health care system, which they eventually use

I, and other responsible citizens, are tired of subsidizing those who go without insurance coverage. And if you say, "I'll pay for my own care when I get sick", I don't believe you

With the drift away from religion in America, the ethics of business, like may other sectors of society, have plunged over the abyss

In my home state, the last twenty years, the major regional banks headquartered in California have been gobbled up.

The mega banks have no sense of loyalty or responsibility to our communities. When decisions are made by far away business interests to NOT oppose open borders, or to close an operation and outsource the operation overseas, the decision makers are conveniently far away and unaware of the consequences on their neighbors.

Squeezing the last penny out of an operation may be god for the bottom line, but it is not necessarily good for the community and it's people.

Mona:
Americans who previously were forced by social pressure to pretend they were religious, now can "come out of the closet" without much fear of retribution at the job, or within their family and friends.

It is more acceptable now to not believe, just as it is to marry out of your color or faith.

So. what is the Republican Party going to do with people of different faiths, and those who do not believe in, or doubt that there is a god?

I'm one of those hard headed evolutionists who comes from a family that has voted Republican since 1856. I am sympathetic to church going people who have been marginalized by the left. Is here no place for me in the Republican Party? I believe in 85 to 90% of the principles our...

Accusations of racism, the last refuge of a liberal

Most people don't care that Obama is black
In fact, even among many Republicans, if the nation was going to elect a liberal, there is a satisfaction that we finally have elected a black president

They just don't want a repeat of Carter's cockamamie economic and foreign policies

Professor Sowell, it is not often that I disagree with you, but when it is, it on an issue such as this.

At times you become a "true believer." Like liberals, you become temporarily more interested the purity of your ideology, than with working answers.

Annual medical checkups are both good medical practices, and from the point of view of the insurance company, good business, detecting problems early.

In my first full time job, my dental insurance increased the deductible by twenty or thirty percent for patients who neglected annual checkups and cleanings. This lowered their cost down the line, and was good medicine and good business.

Policies which utilize the carrot AND the stick will lower costs