What you don't realize is that the NYT sees Chavez as having succeeded. Except for the enlightened elites who run things, pretty much the entire country is dirt poor. This is equality. This is fairness. Everyone is EQUALLY MISERABLE. Pretty soon the population will start to plummet as people starve and children die soon after they are born (or birthing them kills both mother AND child and multiplies the effect as then she won't be having any more kids and she stops consuming resources). Almost no one in one of the most oil rich countries on earth can use oil as few can afford it - so Venezuela isn't causing global warming. Everyone equally miserable save the elites and no global warming = UTOPIA.

20 ... you are kidding, right? Types of Fracking have been going on for more than 50 years. This is not a new process. It wasn't a new process back in 1985 when I was working the oil-fields outside of Wichita Falls, TX - and it was being done all over PLUS most of the old fields out there were also using injection - flooding of chemicals and/or salt water to push out the remaining oil.

Why joke about it? San Francisco getting obliterated for its collective sins by an act of God in manner reminiscent and in proportion to its efforts to duplicate Sodom and Gomorrah writ large would be one of the clearest cases of divine justice I can think of.

Useless bag of meat needs to be retired RIGHT NOW ... without pay.

Wrong on one account: Iraq did NOT attack us on 911. Saudi Arabia did. It is the Saudi's behind most of the problems we have on the planet (including Obama). Bush committed treason when he utterly twisted the actions of our real enemy to take out Saddamn and had he obliterated the dogs of Riyadh most of the remaining nests of Islamist swine would now be dying on the vine - including the ones here and in Europe. It is only dog-Saudi money that sustains them and EXXONMOBIL, CHEVRON, and their agents that undermine our government to allow them to bring about the rise of the New Caliphate and global war.

Whether Newt is a dirtbag - I think he probably is - or not, Mona is reacting in the "its personal - he hurt women - circle the wagons" manner here. Do i think ti was viable to bring the issue up at some point during the debate? Perhaps at the right point and where it was appropriate to the discussion. Instead we had a biased so-called "journalist" trying to run a personal vendetta where the person he hated was destroyed. King was supposed to "moderate" between candidates - not prosecuting a criminal with the help of his competition. This is the same sneering personal garbage the right has been dealing with from the media for decades and Newt smacking him was good for the soul. We need a "beat a journalist day" just to keep them honest.

Deace is right - the only way to beat Paul is to put up a real Conservative - like Paul Ryan or John Barrasso. We can't win with a CHOSEN spineless, flip-flopping, Mormon cultist (which costs you the South) who is more compromised than San Francisco is gay. We can't win with a mouthy, brilliant, sociopath - with less morals than Bill Clinton, twice his vain stroke-able ego, AND the blond appendage on his arm/waist. We can't with with the spluttering, ex-chearleader, illegal-alien-loving, Bush-lite. Forget the rest of the ornaments on the stage. I'm not sure who is worse - round II with Obama the incompetent, Alinsky-acolyte and his efforts to create a Cloward-Piven utopia or Ron Paul the paranoid tyrant, isolationist, Islamophile.

If you think that idiot in Norway EVEN CLAIMED HIMSELF TO BELIEVE IN CHRIST then you are not only mind-bogglingly stupid, you are also totally ignorant. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/on-faith/post/christian-terrorist-madman-how-do-we-understand-anders-behring-breivik/2011/07/25/gIQA7c6XYI_blog.html

3rd World Slums??? Ungrateful jerks they may be, but 3rd world? I think not. The lifestyle in almost all of South Korea compares favorably with Japan, the US, and Europe - which makes the ingratitude all the more maddening. We saved their butts and they live in a wealthy country thanks to our sacrifices. Having spent a number of years back in the late 80's and early 90's running in and out of Korea while I was stationed overseas I can tell you that Korea is NOT a poor basket case. They are highly technical and industrialized - much of those neat little toys we take for granted are Korean-made: Samsung and LG are Korean companies along with Hyundai, Daewoo, FILA, and KIA. All of this is thanks to us not letting them be slaves to...

To the folks who suggested the idea about Flash mobs protesting the TSA - you don't really think that after 10 years of massaging the Patriot Act and the "switches" put in recently by the FCC that they haven't already setup a system that watches the Internet, Facebook, Twitter, and about every other communication avenue? I know for a fact that there have been a number of attempts to set up 2nd Amendment events on the DC Mall that have been quietly and surreptitiously disassembled before they ever got started. Any effort to do a "Traveling Freedom Spring" event against the TSA would receive basically the same reception as the Green Party rallies in Iran - only a whole lot more quietly and effectively.