And so my thinking that Pelosi, Reid, Biden, (and Matthews, Maddow) etc are disastrous and terrible for this country - it's because they're white? 'Cause there can't be any other reason? Wait - I'm also a misogynist too. Guess I better start self-loathing a little better...

To thepresenceusa, To be a nation founded upon Christian principles but now moving away from them (and falling apart) is perfectly consistent with what we now see. Example: it used to be considered shameful to have a child out of wedlock. Now, it is the norm for black Americans (75% illegitimate births). With this statistic comes the fact that children living in homes below the poverty line are overwhelmingly in single-parent homes, be they illegitimate or divorced. (Can't quote it, but it's over 80%, as I recall.) Christianity holds that mankind is fallen and sinful. He will not act nobly and well on his own. Thus our forefathers put in the system of checks and balances into our very Constitution. Liberals like to think that mankind is getting better and better, and education will bring about a perfect world. That - and bigger government. Conservatives are skeptical about either being a solution, since we see neither having helped a whole heckuva lot. (And I'm a teacher. My kids from single parent homes are overwhelmingly the kids with problems in my classes.)

Anonimus, dskeptic is using the same definition that Hillary and Obama use: "Freedom of Worship." They are replacing Freedom of Religion with their new term, which allows you to pray in private, but not to live your beliefs on a daily basis. Therefore, you MUST, for example, pay for abortions for your employees, since that is "their right," and you MUST support gay marriage, since [increasingly] that is their right, but you may not pray in any other place but your home or church, synagogue, etc. You are free to "worship," which they interpret solely as praying and I guess singing [in private], but not to live your life in service to God. In other words, they have no clue what "worship" is.

Maybe he'll climb back down the White House steps and salute now, the way he did to the Marine that he forgot to salute as he boarded Air Force One (after somebody onboard reminded him).... "Oops! Sorry, every person who gave his life that day, so that I'd have the freedom to do whatever I think I want!"

The pleasure I would have felt at watching the liberal press attempt to call this ok is destroyed by the revulsion I feel.

I've taught at laptop schools for years. Alleviating boredom? Sure - because they are CONstantly off-task, trying every way imaginable to get around the blocks our school puts up to prevent shopping during class, Facebook, etc. I usually just say, "No laptops today. Paper. Take notes. Deal with it." They all admit they concentrate better if their laptops are closed! But "educators" are in love with the idea that computers will do their job for them somehow, and that it makes the "educators" look better. (I'm a teacher, not an "educator.")

The local Houston NPR station claimed that it knew of liberal groups that had had to answer some questions too, "so it wasn't only the targeting of Tea Partiers." No one mentioned that the liberal groups were *all approved*, while many, many, many Tea Party groups are STILL waiting - and were therefore not approved in time to help raise money to fight in the last election, which had been kind of the point. Nor did any come near to the kind of anal probing the Tea party groups consistently endured.

No, yeah - it's there! "...life, liberty, and anything you want or feel like you need." Free health care, college tuition, loans for any/everything. It's all there!

As a high school teacher, I see so many of my senior students make the short-sighted assumption that they will graduate from the college at which they start. Thus, some do not take the AP Exams for which they've prepared all year (and in essence, their whole school career), because, "the school where I'm going doesn't accept AP's." Oh really?, I ask. And you know that you will stay at that college? Do you not realize that you might start somewhere and then realize your passion is X major, which isn't offered by your college? That you, like many many of us, might transfer? I think this applies to all the kids - they need to realize that they can/must transfer if their first college is going to be useless. That college loan for that expensive school may be worse than "useless," too. Taking a year off to work before college might be the best advice of all for many, though. Kinda wish I had...

Amusing too, since Richardson, 3/4 Hispanic, is hardly the poor, underprivileged Latino that he claims Cruz is not.