Mental "fitness" is a slippery slope. That would still give the all-powerful (wannabe) government the ability to have you declared mentally unfit regardless of reality. Kinda like the no-fly list or the NDAA's right to detain with nothing more than a "suspicion" - no thanks.

I'm really surprised he was allowed to say that our own government could go tyrannical. We're supposed to forget that kind of history and pretend it never happened, aren't we?

Is secession healthy decentralization or divide-and-rule? http://www.activistpost.com/2012/11/is-secession-healthy-decentralization.html (New World) Order out of chaos.

Actually, spending cuts WOULD serve the interests of the people they're working for if it drives the soon-to-be-formerly-working middle class into desperation and willing to take any pittance offered them. I'm all for tax cuts, but spending cuts can also be devastating on a struggling economy that's based on consumerism.

"Spending cuts"? That's not in the interests of the people they're working for. The best they can do is posture it as a cut in the rate of increase - but they always seem to be able to make up for it "behind the curtain".

Both "sides" masquerade as bitter rivals on opposite sides of all the "wedge" issues, but they work for the same unseen and unelected "board of directors" and don't have any problem coming up with solutions that take liberty and property away from us, the people.

The "fiscal cliff" is being hyped up to justify devaluing our dollar and crushing our economy even further. This whole problem-reaction-solution thing is slowly but surely destroying us.

Oops - my reply wasn't intended for just the above post, but to the thread in general.

Our nation has more "laws" than any other - likely in human history - and I can think of very few that are absolutely necessary. "Enforcing" those laws is where the rubber meets the road and the people have greatest influence. I'm not so much against taxing - the rich or whomever - it's an "income tax" that is at it's heart grand theft of the working class by the elites (who get most of the "income tax" exemptions and in fact pay very little).

Katie, the only reason I still read Townhall is because of your honesty that shows you haven't been "bought and paid for" by the money side of the R party.

Why have none of these paid pundits put any focus on WHO was counting the votes? http://www.westernjournalism.com/spanish-company-will-count-american-votes-overseas-in-november/?utm_source=Western+Journalism&utm_campaign=acb522fb30-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email And could these pundits be keeping the focus off of vote counting fraud - because they're the opposing leg of a two-legged beast and it was the left leg's turn? http://lamecherry.blogspot.com/2012/11/2012-election-theft-thread.html (she writes in crypt to deter the lazy ones)