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Give Newt much of the credit for the lower deficit during the Clinton administration. If the Republicans had not killed Hillarycare the deficit would have zoomed. Most of the decrease in the deficit was the direct result of lower military spending due to the Cold War victory. A victory that Reagan must be given much credit for. People tend to forget it is Congress that ultimately controls spending.

The one thing I respect about Ralph Nader is he actually walks the walk.

The Democratic Party is really nothing more than a Euro-socialist party. They have no interest in helping Americans.

I ain't never heard Al apologize for this:

Sadly, we have gone far down the socialist path. Goldwater was the last classical liberal who got a major party nomination. The resulting election was a triumph for socialism. All we can do at this point is keep the values of our founding fathers alive until Americans wake up. It will take some huge crisis.

We do..It is the Libertarian Party. The classical liberal (e.g. Jefferson, Mill, Madison) feared government and seeked to expand individual liberty. In much of the rest of the world liberal retains its original meaning in the United States socialists stole the liberal label.

I don't make jokes, I just watch the government and report the facts. Elections are a good deal like marriages, there's no accounting for anyone's taste. Every time we see a bridegroom we wonder why she ever picked him, and it's the same with Public Officials. The difference between death and taxes is death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets. It is a good thing that we do not get as much government as we pay for. Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing -- and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even. The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has. --

That has been pretty much the situation in every election sice '64 with the exception of the Reagan elections.

The one good thing that would come from a Obama victory in November is it would deal a blow to the victimhood scam artists.

It's about the survival of our Constitution and the concept of a federal government whose powers are limited.

Oklahoma Rebellion by Walter E. Williams One of the unappreciated casualties of the War of 1861, erroneously called a Civil War, was its contribution to the erosion of constitutional guarantees of state sovereignty. It settled the issue of secession, making it possible for the federal government to increasingly run roughshod over Ninth and 10th Amendment guarantees. A civil war, by the way, is a struggle where two or more parties try to take over the central government. Confederate President Jefferson Davis no more wanted to take over Washington, D.C., than George Washington wanted to take over London. Both wars are more properly described as wars of independence. Oklahomans are trying to recover some of their lost state sovereignty by House Joint Resolution 1089, introduced by State Rep. Charles Key. The resolution's language, in part, reads: "Whereas, the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States reads as follows: 'The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.'; and Whereas, the Tenth Amendment defines the total scope of federal power as being that specifically granted by the Constitution of the United States and no more; and whereas, the scope of power defined by the Tenth Amendment means that the federal government was created by the states specifically to be an agent of the states; and Whereas, today, in 2008, the states are demonstrably treated as agents of the federal government. ? Now, therefore, be it resolved by the House of Representatives and the Senate of the 2nd session of the 51st Oklahoma Legislature: that the State of Oklahoma hereby claims sovereignty under the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States over all powers not otherwise enumerated and granted to the federal government by the Constitution of the United States. That this serve as Notice and Demand to the federal government, as our agent, to cease and desist, effective immediately, mandates that are beyond the scope of these constitutionally delegated powers." Key's resolution passed in the Oklahoma House of Representatives with a 92 to 3 vote, but it reached a bottleneck in the Senate where it languished until adjournment. However, Key plans to reintroduce the measure when the legislature reconvenes. Federal usurpation goes beyond anything the Constitution's framers would have imagined. James Madison, explaining the constitution, in Federalist Paper 45, said, "The powers delegated ? to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, [such] as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce. ? The powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties, and properties of the people." Thomas Jefferson emphasized that the states are not "subordinate" to the national government, but rather the two are "coordinate departments of one simple and integral whole. ? The one is the domestic, the other the foreign branch of the same government." Both parties and all branches of the federal government have made a mockery of the checks and balances, separation of powers and the republican form of government envisioned by the founders. One of the more disgusting sights for me to is to watch a president, congressman or federal judge take an oath to uphold and defend the United States Constitution, when in reality they either hold constitutional principles in contempt or they are ignorant of those principles. State efforts, such as Oklahoma's, create a glimmer of hope that one day Americans and their elected representatives will realize that the federal government is the creation of the states. A bit of rebellion by officials in other states will speed that process along.

The key for McCain is a surge in the redneck vote to match the black vote surge.

It is a bit ironic that, since the death of Milton Friedman, the two most articulate defenders of economic liberty, Walter Williams and Thomas Sowell, are black.

I matters a lot to me.

Basic economic theory is that a weaker exchange rate is good for labor, but bad for the consumer: the consumer must pay more but the laborer makes more due to increased sales of exports. The problem comes in when you are importing a basic input good. An input good is a good that is required in the manufacturing process. Oil is an input good. Higher price for oil adds to the costs of American manufactured goods thus weakening the benefit of a weaker currency. A weaker dollar would actually be good for us if we were energy dependent. That is a big if.

We should go a bit further and withdrawal our Korean and European troops while we are at it. You can't have an empire and small government.

We are only one USSC judge away from losing the second amendment as an individual right.

Since the Joe Horn case got so much attention it can be safe to assume that the instances of Texans killing, even justifiably, in the defense of a neighbor's property is quite rare. I have heard of no case where a innocent was shot down and it was claimed he was mistaken for a burglar fleeing with stolen property. It is a damn shame law enforcement cannot fire on fleeing felons.

US law varies greatly from state to state. In Texas you do have the right to use the force needed to prevent theft of your neighbors' property.

A couple minutes each in Ole Sparky should rid us of those four delinquents.

A truly great man. Ahead of his times. Like Jefferson and Adams died on Independence Day. A petriot to the end. I bet Jimmy Carter dies on May day.

The great thing about federalism is wez can live in his little commie state and I can live in Texas.

In Texas we vale innocent human life, two individuals were killed by home invaders last week in Pasadena. That did not make the news because it was the innocent homeowners killed.

Better check Minnesota law first. Any state that had Mondale for a senator probably ain't real strong on private property rights.

Great news. The grand jury did not indict. Joe can go on helping his neighbors. http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/local&id=6235878