RodT: 47% of income earners don’t pay income tax. So would they be some of those polled that think increasing taxes is a good thing? When polled about whether taxes were too high, too low, or about right, take a wild guess what those who pay no taxes (and likely get the EITC cash payment) "thought"? I use the term "thought" loosely in this context as "I want it; gimme gimme" doesn't rise to the level of actual thought, eg, babies crying probably don't make elaborate plans to do so, but simply react to hunger or teething pain or because it's 2 AM. (As a father, this last instance fell into my hands so as to let my wife get some rest. My daughter was nothing if not consistent!) This, like removing your hand from a hot stove burner, is...

Voting is one of the most important thing that American citizens can do. But it seems that this is some sort of obligation that must be forced on all.

I had to make a one-hour round trip to my country seat when I moved here in the 80s. Inconvenient? Oh, yeah. But realizing the importance of this right, it was a no-brainer to go to this inconvenience.

Some celebrity got blasted a few years back for suggesting that if you don't know what you're voting for, perhaps you shouldn't vote. That's Common Sense.

The "Motor Voter" bill was a disgrace. If a person can't be bothered to take the time and make the effort to register to vote, it's obviously not a major priority. They shouldn't vote, either.

I don't know how...

Congress voted themselves the insurance that normal people would have to buy... but forgot to put in an effective date (when this would start). The rule is that if no date is specified (as in this case) as a part of a new law, the effective date is the date that the law is enacted.

Okay, so Congress was cut off... but as we all have heard so often: pay now - benefits 2013 or 2014. So they lost their Federal Sweetheart deal on the day the law was enacted, but were left hanging until 2013-2014.

Fortunately the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) called this a "drafting error" (hard to argue with that: the whole bill was a drafting error!) and Congress got off the hook of their own devising.

The irony: Nancy "Nora...

From the moment Obama jumped from the frying pan into the fire by trying to redeem himself (from failing to cloud the Health Care issue with racist claptrap) and refused to simply admit the truth (he didn't know the details of the racially-charged insult he hurled), the idea of the "teachable moment" over beers at the White House was clearly going to be an extenuation of a bad situation. It was.

The only question that remains about this "teachable moment": Did Obama LEARN anything?

WAG: Not a thing.

Her brainless "investigation" into "automatic weapons" that "should be banned" was a dead-giveaway: she and some like-minded (that is to say, "small") associates browsed through some catalogs and picked out weapons that appeared to be dangerous to her group.

She never lets ignorance stand in her way. As with so many other senators and representatives, her oath of office is pro forma, but utterly meaningless.

Yes, those who represent us in DC understand the Constitution. They simply choose to ignore it for purely partisan purposes and self-enrichment.

I would propose: enforce the Oath of Office for all who swear to it. Otherwise, abolish it, as it is nothing more than an embarrassment for all bright enough to...

>> I was not able to find a quote from Dawn Johnson that resembles what Jillian attributed to her.

Perhaps this is because you are unfamiliar with Google? I copy/pasted in the line straight from the article. There are numerous results, with the name Dawn Johnson in the titles of the results! You don't even have to go to the sites because the quote shows on the results page... repeatedly!

>>The Federal govt. must bail out Calif.

This is one way to say "the taxpayers must bail out Calif." Are you laboring under the misconception that other states don't have problems of their own? NJ, for example, seems to be doing very well at running off almost $90 million (per year in tax revenues) of their more productive citizens by overtaxing them. Good thinking, huh?

How about having California drill off-shore and re-open oil wells that have been capped, no longer in use?

Can you see any way that CA voters might actually help themselves instead of sponging off the more responsible states that don't legislate by lunacy, eg, "Sanctuary Cities," which should be prosecuted under the RICO act.

Oil is around...

Have the polls changed since last I read? This is manure with whipped cream and a cherry on top.

India has more Honors students than the US has total students.

How bad is our education system getting?

Back under separate but equal, Mississippi blacks routinely got "hand me down" used textbooks from the white schools, but tended to get lower grades. Then one year, the blacks outscored the whites.

Why? The white students got the "new and improved" textbooks, while the black students got the old (but superior) textbooks.

QED

Teachers aren't allowed to teach, anymore. One old black lady teacher, who could silence a class with one laser-like glance (and she was thin as a reed), told me in...

Obama desperately needs a "protocol" person when he tours the world. So does Hillary, who wasn't scheduled to visit Argentina, but dropped in just long enough to stir up a fuss between Argentina and England over the Falkland Islands, which can be ruled by either country they wish, but prefers England. Hillary, innocent of this info, suggested that the two countries "sit down" for "talks" about this issue. Great: a Sec of State who creates a problem where none existed through sheer ignorance.

As someone else has noted, an inexperienced president such as Obama should have appointed an experienced diplomat as Sec of State. Apparently, his final two choices were Joe Biden (OMG!) and Hillary Clinton, who was passed over for VP and...

For some reason, a majority of people think that Obama is ineffective in leadership (especially for ObamaCare, a fraud), while a majority also give him him good "personal approval" numbers (because he himself is a successful fraud).

Inflation is all but guaranteed because the unconstitutional Federal Reserve has flooded the market with monopoly money (the Constitution states that our currency must be backed up by gold, silver, precious metals; Nixon took us off the gold standard because France was using it to unfair advantage in trading with America).

Currency investors (who play the FOREX market) can short a currency, as George Soros did in England (which wouldn't switch to the euro), shorting the pound and labeled "the...