The American Welfare State: How We Spend Nearly $1 Trillion a Year Fighting Poverty--And Fail Actually, we spend nearly $1 Trillion FUNDING, not fighting, poverty, and are extremely successful.

The headline is a bit deceptive. Based on the article, allowing actual weapons on planes was NOT recommended. That said, I agree with both the actual recommendations AND allowing guns on planes. I would actually support ISSUING ammunition to CCW holders at the gate.

I just re-read Article 3 of the US Constitution. There is ZERO mention of the number of Justices on the Supreme Court. Can you cite a source for your claim of 6?

Without an informed voter base, term limits just replace people that should never have been in office with different people that should never be in office for the same reasons. With an informed voter base, elections ARE term limits.

In some respects, John underestimates MY instincts. An example is that my instinct has always been that making voting easier is bad. If you can't get your a** of the couch and go to the BOE to register to vote, and then get your a** of the couch AGAIN to go to the polls, you have no business voting. Fair disclosure. I HAVE voted absentee since Nov 2004. However, I have the valid reason that I have worked at the polls fro EVERY election beginning with the 2004 General Election. My assigned location was not where I would have voted, and I was occupied the ENTIRE time the polls were open.

I agree. I have met several self proclaimed liberals. When I talk to them without political terms, I have yet to meet an actual liberal.

Make up your mind. has he been in congress for 40 years or has he been a doctor for 40 years? He has NOT be a practicing physician while serving in Congress. As for co-owning a coin store, I see you didn't say he RAN anything. Though the mutual funds in my 401(k), I am a co-owner of several hundred major corporations.

I would name him Treasury Secretary in a heartbeat. I don't want him anywhere near foreign policy.

He has been in elected office for 40 years. That does not mean he has served the public for a single day. If I used the SAME logic, applied to nearly ANY other politician, you would agree.

He also doesn't care if his policies amount to SUICIDE. He will doe what his PERSONAL agenda CLAIMS the Constitution requires. I have read the Constitution in its entirely several time, most reacently on Christmas Eve. I have also read Ron Paul's beliefs as presented in his book 'Liberty Defined'. The does not ACCEPT the Constitution I have read.