Exactly right. Would the Germanic tribes have changed their attitude towards Rome had Rome decided to act nice? Did the Vikings care that Yorkshire monasteries were defenseless?

The 4th quality: He/She must be younger than 54.

They remind me of another workers union party which used intimidation and violence to gain a foothold and to maintain their position: the NAZIs.

It was Herbert Hoover who first used the Federal Government to help states respond to a natural disaster (flooding of the Mississippi in Arkansas). Before that, states were left to their own devices to cope with disasters. Now cities expect to be bailed out because of a man-made disaster. Look what the mean ol' Republicans started!

His accusation makes sense to him, and that's the problem. Liberals and conservatives have quite divergent world views through which they filter the same facts. Their world view gives them different interpretations of the same things. To one the other is lying because what he says sounds like more than a misinterpretation, but a characterization that is so woefully wrong as to be a lie.

2 things have always concerned me. First, in Presidential Elections the electorate votes their generation. Since 1860, the president elect has been younger than his predecessor, with 2 exceptions. 1, Harrison defeated Cleveland. He lost the popular vote, but won the Electoral College. 2, Reagan defeated Carter with 18% interest rates and "America Held Hostage". Second, 1936. FDR had a worse economy but the Depression started after 12 years of Republican rule. Some economists point out that the Stock Market bottomed out in July 1932 and the Depression was over by March 1933. However, full employment was slow to return and FDR's shifting policies made business cautious about hiring, much like today.

There is no place for Muslims in the US. Islam's world view is incompatible with ours. Remember, when the First Amendment was adopted Muslims lived in Asia Minor and Africa. The idea that they would come to Western Europe and America was unthinkable. Even the indigenous Indian nations were not part of the US, but considered foreign nations. The First Amendment did not apply to them. The only religion practiced in the US in 1789, was Christianity and it had numerous denominations. The First Amendment guaranteed that all of those could be practiced, but not one of them would be the 'State" religion. One has to ask if the First Amendment would be written as is, if it was known that Asian religions could come to the US.

The trouble with Liberals is that they believe social stimuli determines human behavior. They believe if you push a certain button, people will react in a certain way. The fact of the matter is is that OFFENSE is a CHOICE. It is one way of responding. One chooses to feel offense, or they may choose some other response. Offense is not built into an object. Offense lies in the person. Nobody offended the Muslims. Some Muslims chose to be offended.

Mr. Soptic is telling me that he lived above his means, and had no significant savings. If he couldn't afford insurance, then he didn't save enough to buy a Cobra or catastrophic insurance to cover significant and unexpected medical costs. Also, since his company was in distress for 8 years, he didn't pay attention to the writing on the wall and do something about it.

"We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work. ...we have just as much unemployment as when we started. … And an enormous debt to boot." "We want to see private business expand. … We believe that one of the most important ways of achieving these ends at this time is to continue progress toward a balance of the federal budget." -Henry Morgenthau, Jr., Secretary of the Treasury, 1934-1945. He opposed Keynesian Economics, probably the only one in the Cabinet to do so, but unfortuately, he worked for FDR. The laws of the universe don't change.