The law of unintended consequences at last applies to them....and they don't like it.

This isn't over....

Wait until they argue that a fifteen year old can't work without parental permission so she should be able to get them free.

See, the 15 year old is required to get parental permission for something!

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His reign in NYC being quite atrocious.

If he doesn't get his way again,

He becomes much more ferocious,

Supercalifragilisticexpealidoshus!

Love the "bloombergs" on the hat.

"I loathe our news media for making the important irrelevant and the ridiculous praiseworthy."

Well stated.  Yet I believe we also have to blame ourselves.  We have elevated the small, thinking that somehow that would balance things and what we have done is make those that are somehow larger, irrelevant.

Every aspect of our lives these days is affected by the high price of mediocrity.  Of false image and pretending that we are all equal in outcome.  They started to bang the drum when they perverted the words of MLK from "the content of their character".   We have since started only to identify people by the exterior they presented.

Jason Collins as a man should be evaluated on his humanity and what he does with his life.  As a ball player, he should be evaluated by how he played the game.  I wish him the best as I would most human beings.  But he is not a hero.

Now had he come out when he first knew about his orientation...that would have been taking a risk.

And still...we haven't yet come up with a good explanation of why there is such a disconnect between "Republican" elites and main stream conservatives.

Republicans co-opted conservatism by acting conservative at one time.  When Republicans lose they are just as likely to blame it on conservatives as they are on the Democrat liberals they usually face.   The problem is that Republicans are not the party of the right...they are more in the center.  And by attacking the conservatives as much as liberals do, they are loosing that entire spectrum to the right.

Talk radio, for the most part, might be preaching to the choir.  At the same time, they are trying to explain to Republicans why they are failing to lead....and that is because they are not grounded in ideas, only grounded in winning.  Talk radio didn't cause that...the corruption of having power and wanting to keep it at all cost, does.  Talk radio is attempting to pump up the right until they find a leader who is worthy of a conservative's vote.

What are the chances that talk radio understands conservatism better? 

Sometimes I think the main stream Republicans define themselves as conservatives simply because they are not Democrats.  They are more conservative then liberal, but that doesn't make them conservatives.

I generally like Luntz, but I am not sure that even he has a clue about a large portion of the country.

"There is a place. Like no place on Earth. A land full of wonder, mystery, and danger! Some say to survive it: You need to be as mad as a hatter. "

Alice in Wonderland.

Hillary in Washington.

Best thread title of the year!

Ignore the religion and center all your thoughts on the fact that they are true Caucasians.  Now Tempe-Raston makes sense.  Another hyphenated writer.

I think you might have a point here.  They nailed Hillary when she went up against Obama.  It wasn't pretty.  Hillary learned from that.  It would be a real cat fight between the two...and there would be no limits on attacks as there was with Obama. 

Remember, being Black means you get to attack other blacks without fear of racial charges.  Being a women means about the same when it is two women in contention. 

Grab the popcorn, this could be good.

Her nomination would put me on the war path......

I could get in that position....but only once.

Followed by "How about the weather?"  Never mind, I can tell you are cold.....

Get the duct tape...my head is ready to explode.

Worse, I can see her audience shaking their heads yes as if some truth has been revealed to them.

Grew up in Miami during the 50's and 60's. 

One observation I made at the time was that at least among the Cubans I came across, those that were Black were always referred to as Cuban, not as Blacks. They attended schools that were predominately white along with the children of other refuges.

Black Americans were Blacks, Cuban Blacks were Cuban.  That is how they self defined and filled out paperwork. If there was some sense of underclass by color among Cubans at the time, it wasn't readily apparent to many of us who were in Miami at the time.  If the initial impression I had was wrong, it was at least my first impression.

Michelle threw one of my balls back..........