Three thousand deaths from guns since Sandy Hook. Shut up you idiots!

And you aren't smart enough to write this column, you third-rate "intellectual" sham!

Cruz even looks like Joe McCarthy! Needs a Roy Cohn look-alike as a sidekick. I shudder to think what will happen to this country if and when you TEA-Party types take over the country - will make Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, Communist Bloc look like a walk in the park, especially when you go after those you label as "socialists and "lib-tards" and try to lock them up or do bodily harm to them. After all, it is YOU right-wing zealots who have the guns. Why do you think Mark Kelley (Gabby Gifford's husband) recently bought that semi- automatic rifle. It wasn't. To go hunting. It was to warn you right wing Fascists that if you go after Gabby or him, he will plug you - just as you ignoramuses would deserve!

What does "prescient" mean? By using such words you are sounding elitist and that is exactly the OPPOSITE of what you are trying to express. Let the elitism go to the Chris Hayes (MSNBC) types whom no one can understand.

Maya Angelou, a renowned Black Poet and Liberal (yes, Liberal) is markedly opposed to Ebonics or Black street slang being taught in schools. Dumbing down the language is not the cure for Black ignorance. When we go bilingual, at least the Spanish or French in VT, NH & ME is gramatically correct. It is not street Spanish, etc. That student should have been berated and embarrassed by her teacher as an example to the other students. When I teach Biology if someone uses the word "prostrate" instead of "prostate" I will rake him through the coals in front of everyone until he gets it right or I'll throw him out of the class (never have had to go that far.) That's a mistake that is never repeated, never. That's the role of teachers!

This guy Sowell is probably one of the biggest and pompous self-made idiots (yes, idiot, not even imbecile or moron) ever. Good Luck to those of you who follow him.

"What government exists for is to secure a free sphere within which every person has an equal opportunity to exercise their God-given talents for the betterment of themselves and mankind." Ah! Therein lies the rub. The current system of non-aid or disproportionate aid does neither. The kid from the ghetto does not have the same "equal opportunity" that a kid from a richer neighborhood does. Ironically, the most productive countries are those that impose a more-or-less permanent class separation so that the downtrodden "know their place." Maybe Ayn Rand was right in her belief in that. Only, she took government handouts too, as it turned out.

I sure as hell ain't believing in your religious beliefs and I ain't an atheist.

Sorry, guys, but Christianity is NOT the state religion, so all public meetings which are tax-payer funded are not permitted to invoke one form of religion in preference to another. There are Jews and other non-Christian religions in this country. Don't invoke the Founding Fathers because they were Deists (believed in God) and NOT Christian (such as John Adams and Thomas Jefferson.) Sorry to bust your self-righteous bubble.

Again, the right-wing zealots below, just like ultra-lefties, react with name-calling, slogans and labels. I didn't vote for McCain but I respect his service to the country. Working with the President to achieve common ground is not a disservice to the GOP or the country unless you are an ideologue. But, then, most of you think the President is not legitimate and is a traitor. Remember, a liberal Democrat, Wyden, filibustered along with Senator Paul - on his side. You guys define treason as anyone who doesn't agree with you. I shudder to think what will happen when you take over the country, which you will. Then it will be really good-bye to American freedom as all those who don't agree with you will be in jail or fleeing the country