IMO, this problem has been created by lawyers. Zero Tolerance is a reaction to lawsuits being filled against schools and/or teachers for not preventing violence. At least, that would be the Administrator's point of view - protect the school at all costs. No doubt, some teachers take advantage of this and overreact to the point of inanity (e.g. kicking a kindergarten kid out of school for making his hand look like a gun). Lawyers love this state of affairs; lots of work for them.

The last country on earth to officially outlaw slavery was Saudi Arabia...in 1969. Apparently, they had their fingers crossed behind their backs.

The refusal to acknowledge facts is not confined to this debate about the second Amendment. Fact: the Administrative cost of medical care in 1965 was 3%; now, after 48 years of intervention in the market by the Federal Government, it is 33%. Fact: the substance in the atmosphere that causes the greatest increase in planetary temperature is water vapor, not carbon dioxide. Etc. Etc. Liberals are little children with fingers in their ears shouting nananananana whenever an adult begins to speak.

Just a rough guess... 300 years ago Obama would have been burned as a witch. 200 hundred years ago he would have been tarred, feathered, and run out of town. 100 years ago he would have been impeached with politicians of all stripes voting against him. Today...? Well, today, he's regaled by the media and Leftist intelligentsia as a stellar "transforming" figure. What a crock. What a sham of a nation of "laws, not men" we have become.

"While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption; for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage [i.e. enslaved]." "Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts." Just a couple of verses from II Peter that came to mind. There is ZERO tolerance on the Left for anything other than the diktats from their secular high priests.

Dittos from me. BTW, Katie got one thing wrong. PP receives tens or hundreds of millions of dollars from the Feds, not "hundreds of thousands."

USN: Good morning. Your comments are spot on. This column reminded me of the old saw that "even Paranoid Schizophrenics have enemies." Only a fool would approach life (or politics) without vigilance, because there are people who will NOT have your best interests at heart.

The most equitable and efficient tax in our electronic age would be a transaction tax (of about .3% - $.03 per every $10.00 transaction). Add another $.01% for a time if you want to pay off the Federal debt. It would replace all other Federal taxes, usher in an economic boom, capture tax from the underground economy (which still must rely on transactions for purchases at legitimate business), etc. This was determined by a blue ribbon panel of experts gathered under Clinton who finished their work under Bush. It was opposed by Wall Street Investment Bankers. Of course, we know that they have our best interests at heart, don't they.

I guess it never occurred to Mr. Greenberg that the Arkansas legislator was correct. The citizens of Mass. are disarmed for the most part and unable to defend themselves. Those who weren't cowering in their homes were forcibly hustled out of those homes by a police state response that violated the Constitutional right to be secure in one's home against unwarranted Gov't intrusion. Note to Mr. Greenberg. I'm not a Bircher or a Neobircher. Neither am I a teabag. I am an American citizen who has watched his nation deteriorate, because the likes of Mr. Greenberg have enabled it through cowardice.

Jerry: Yes, I'm familiar with both of these. I am as worried as many others about a lot of things happening in our world and nation. I take some comfort from the belief that our destiny, ultimately, is in our Creator's hands.

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