Do you think society was well served by this prosecution?
Was the enormous cost to both the state and , perhaps more importantly given the states public funding, the ruinious cost to Mr.Zimmerman, worth the […]

I still remember in the early days of the environmental movement the moving scenes of the old Indian with silent tears running down his stoic features as he gazed upon the polluted rivers and trash strewn […]

First I agree with @jlRiggs57aol-com, a few insults is not worthy of the question.
I met Cruz at CPAC and liked him personally but I did not come away from the meeting thinking he was ready for the Oval office […]

As a general rule of lending, the lender should have, in the absence of actual collateral , some realistic plan for repayment of the loan. This should also hold for studen loans unless we rename them […]

I go back and forth on Snowden.
I think his choices of countries to flee to are troubling.
Clapper is a different kettle of fish.
I think he should be prosecuted under every possible violation of the laws.
If […]

Two Cents has it exactly right about the effect.
I am troubled by the reasoning that only the Government “has standing”after the people voted for prop 8,but not the actual result of the decision.
I think it […]

In both cases the costs incurred by the companies and the people who died working will provide much more incentive and real increases in safety than any government regulations ever will.
Only fools pass laws and […]

First saying CO2 is at its highest level is utter nonsense.
It may be the highest ever recorded but only because no one before had the interest or means to record it. ( say there Caesar,how’s the CO2 this […]

Please provide an actual demonstrated case of environmental damage from fracking.
The pretty picture of a waterfall is nice.
Absolutly useless as an example though.
Maybe next time a nice puppy picture will be […]

Latest CBO report says there is “little,if any”improvement in “green house gas” emissions as a result of the Billions of dollars spent so far.
Since its the CBO report you can be sure if they could has shown any […]

OOPS!
Ben Franklin said “when the people realize they can vote themselves money the country will fail”
Good old Ben,mixed him and De Tocqueville up.
Did anybody else catch the mistake?

Just another thought on good old Warren Buffet with the overtaxed secretary.
Warren ,bless his soul doesn’t need any income.
He has Billions in investments. Rather than take a salary he can simply borrow what […]

100% Agree.
We hung a lot of folks after WWII for doing things they were”ordered” to do.
Saying he had a contract seems a lot like follow orders blindly to me.
I consider myself a staunch conservative ( except […]

Actually we are really lucky when they pay aattention to the polls instead of just letting the bureaucrats do what ever they want

A common thread being expressed is if you aren’t doing something wrong you have nothing to worry about.
Who decides that?
When?
Under what criteria?
Try thinking that through a few steps ahead.

I bet Biden expects to have a high position if a new world order is created so he can help us poor souls know how to live.
Along with Gore ,Pelosi and all the rest of the vastly superior intellects who got us to this point.

Alvis,
What porpoise is served to negotiate with them at all?
I think we just forget about them.
If,in the future they bear some relevance to our interests we can talk to them then.
Why hurry?
Whenever we […]