I have been just reading this from the sidelines but I couldn't let this one pass.  Isn't this true in the case of anything said or written?

I like Cap'n Crunch but the hippie stuff--ya know, peanut butter flavored.

You're not surprised are you?  I'm sure Putin thinks of us as wussies.  Actually, my first thought was a word that rhymes with wussy but is probably CoC non-compliant.  Come to think of it, is wussy CoC compliant? 

I agree with Roberto, Putin is nothing more than a street thug, and michael kelley is correct Kraft should have demanded his property.  They wouldn't have beaten him and Putin has a lot more to lose in that situation. Now Kraft conformed for Putin what he probably always has believed that the West is soft.

I think with the growing strength of Germany and the waning power of France war was inevitable.  The Brits would likely have had to be involved sooner or later.  However, the US should have stayed out of it but Wilson's desire for war-socialism and love for the British wouldn't allow him sit on the sidelines and that war begot the next.

I agree, whether it is black guilt or just the fact that Obama won't be running again.  The left was able to create a long campaign of demonizing Bush so that running against him from about 2005 on was effective, they're still doing it.  But the Republicans have had no such ability against Obama.  However, his policies are very unpopular and the Republicans should use them to bludgeon the Democrats who will be campaigning over the next four years.  "They said trust them with power and they would make life better, but what did they do?  They spied on you, they pilfered your tax dollars on big government schemes, they burdened your children and grandchildren with unfathomable debt, they ruined the US standing financially, economically, and in foreign affairs.  And time and time again they just flat out lied to you."  sadly I don't know if there are any Republicans that have the courage to take that tack.

How about societal changes such as more women attend college and receive degrees than men.  And men are less prepared to take care of families than ever before.

As a teacher with a low SAT score but an above average IQ, I can tell you that the problem with education does start in the home, but it is unfair to lay blame at the feet of working mothers.  Societal, not to mention economic, changes have required most women to work.  The real blame should laid be at the feet of the leftist who fancy themselves as progressives, and are responsible for the negative societal and economic changes.

When I hear someone accuse us of opposing Obama because he is black I immediately flinch and think, that is preposterous! I oppose him because... (see above).  That and, socialism is a failure, income redistribution is mean and a failure ,and the man is an ass; need I go on?

I am still not sure which is more accurate the experts that tell us we're doing fine or the mass of anecdotal evidence that suggest we're not.  But, this entire thread is just more talk/news that makes me feel like the Nixon - Carter 70's are back.  Can you say malaise?

James of England and Team America thank you for your explanations, but like Barbara I have found the necessities of life much more expensive over the last few years leaving little for anything else.  So, if more people are finding they have less disposable income that would surely mean a sluggish economy for people who depend on that kind of spending.

Between Jen Rubin and Jim Pethokoukis this was a most un-satifying podcast.  Thank God for GLoP!  I would like to know what is the reasoning behind ignoring the prices of food and energy in inflation calculatioins.  Mark Belling the last time he filled in for Rush talked about asset inflation in the housing market -- made sense to me.  This stuff that there is no inflation has got my BS antennae twitching. I don't know how you can print money the way we have and not have inflation.  I also wonder how technology growth has helped to keep the appearance of inflation in check.

Reading Steyn's latest To the Slaughter I kept thinking in what American locales would this event have been different due to conceal and carry laws.  Obviously, not at a Fort Hood processing center ordered to be a gun free zone, but maybe say the streets of Killeen, Texas

The faces of British imperialism.

The majority of people responding to this thread have opposed anthropological global warming and made good solid arguments for their positions.  However, " the left and the media" will call all of them deniers on the flimsiest arguments.  If you want to defeat them you can't cower about what they will say about you.  You need to expose their male bovine excrement and mock and shame them for trying to pass it off as science.  Ask yourself "What would Briebart do?"

When I agree with "I don't believe there's warming." I mean, I don't believe in the Global Warming nonsense.  Of course there is warming all of the time, and cooling.  But I am skeptical about the fear mongering coming out of those who promote the concept of  anthropological global warming.  You might say I deny what they claim to believe and oppose their misanthropic solutions.

Ooooh, oooh me over here! I am a big fat #1

The whole thing is a politically concocted lie!

How much energy and wealth have been misdirected from solving real problems? Wealth that now lines the pockets of the likes of Al Gore.