Well, I read it and while I don't claim to be smarter than Andy M.  I still don't understand what is so difficult to understand what Rand Paul was asking the President for.  Also if we know the Blind Sheikh is sitting in the cafe' why does a Drone need to be used?  I think this is being needlessly made confusing or else I am too stupid to get it.

James I found your article quite good and I am in agreement with you on your self assesment.  I consider myself a Conservative with Libertarian sympathies.  I do believe in, for the most part, live and let live.  I also believe that structure is a good thing because without it we wouldn't have a natural barrier to create limits to which anarchy cannot get past no mater how hard it tries.  So as with kids I believe mankind needs and wants structure and boundaries and rules so when we do rebel, whether we know it or not, there is a safe zone that we will get to before it gets out of hand.  So if we coddle man and start people off with a very low threshold of limits than I believe anarchy will ensue because there will be no real or imagined barrier to create a safe zone.  Plus with out strong limits what would we have to expend our natural urges of rebellious behavior on?  Where would we put it?

I too believe that the break throughs that technology has created are wonderful things.  I also believe that the interpersonal skills of mankind has erroded because of the digital age and that I find to be sad and creates great concern for the future of mankind.  How do you learn to pursude, negotiate, and even date if you are constantly communicating through a device.  Anyone with teenagers right now can attest to this.  They don't date.  It's all about hanging out and hooking up.  My daughter just recently was asked out on a date and the boy did it face to face, didn't ask to hang out but actually asked her out and I was absolutely shocked by it.  But that moment in time also causes me to still have hope.  Despite all the technology break throughs that have benefited businesses, there is still nothing like getting out on the street and approaching people in there businesses or homes and asking them to do business with you and then negotiating the final deal.  So I am concerned for the next generations because I am afraid this skillset is going away and when its gone then what?

Peter, what is it exactly that needs to be chewed over.  It seems pretty simple to me.  Rand Paul wanted a real assurance based on the Constitution as to whether or not the Administration was going to play Judge, Jury, and Executioner on anyone it deemed worth dropping a Hell Fire on within the borders of the USA.  He wasn't condemening
drones as a whole, even the use of them within our borders.  I don't understand why people are finding what he said and did so difficult to understand.

It seems to me you should be talking with people like Adam Carolla and other trail blazers who figured out early and well how to monotize Podcasting and website combos.  His Pods are daily and he has others doing podcasts as well who are making him money.  Maybe stop listening to the complainers about the "live reads" and find more sponsers to do live reads for.  Maybe charge more to the advertiser.  Stop telling and start selling.  Do more self promotion in other outlets.  Peter and Rob and others start doing more interviews and other people's podcasts and self promote.  Bring on other big podcasters like Carolla and Jay Mohr and other big podcasting stars who are making money and giving their product away.  Stop bringing on losers like Mike Murphy, just ask Whitman, and stop telling him how great he is "Peter" and start bringing on funny interesting people.  Where is Mark Steyn?  That's how I heard of you in the first place.  Promote, Promote, Promote.  Go onto successful Talk Radio shows and talk about the site like Levin, and Hewitt and the rest.

In the words of Tony The Tiger..."It's GREAT"...it's high time more people recieve that message from those who "Love Them" because we are being bombarded with messages from the POP culture that life is unfair.  I have been watching people such as Oprah telling us to only worry about ourselves, find our own happiness, find our spirt, etc., and to hell with the consequences.  I suspect that that father was tired of watching those principles take hold in his children.  I suspect that he is tired of paying the bill.  The question I keep coming back to is why in todays's society does paying for everything not count for anything anymore.  If you are in the one percent, or a father who decides to kick his children in the arse you are now automatically apart of the "Animal" class. 

I am all for being the research capital of the world but I don't support many of the kinds of research the Gov gives money too such as the sleeping habits of rats

However your overall premise is spot on, or as Paul Ryan would say "Spotted Cow" on.

I agree with what you said.  We have great conservatives all over the country and I think it's going to be because of the "New Milenium" generation that this country gets turned around.  They may be the new "Greatest Generation", and thanks to new media we get to learn about them all and know we are not alone. 

In regards to the weather, if I had to choose between 5-7 feet of snow over the course of a winter and a huricane.  Give me snow and an ice shack any day of the week.

I can imagine.  It's the social justice theme that was adopted and when you look at the time line and the geography of where these particular Priests come from, especially the gay Priests.  It's the 60's and early  70's and both coasts.

Yes, and I also think it's possible that they thought the grace that celibacy offered would empower them to not act on there homoerotic desires.

One more thing, you can tell how much the cultural revolution of the 60's and 70's affected the newly ordained Priests of that era because I've found myself with more oportunities, if you will, to challenge what the Priests of that era say during their homilies in regards to social justice and the rich's responsibilities regarding the poor, etc., then I have with younger Priests.  Several times I've listened to Priests stand infront of the congregation and tell us that basically we should feel guilty if we have more than someone else.  And when I challenge them with the notion that maybe I work harder so maybe I've earned the more that I have.  But they don't care, it goes through one ear and out the other.

As a former Catholic Seminarian I've had the theory that the reason that the Priest scandal happened was because of the infiltration of liberals and gays into the hierarchy of the US Catholic Church.  I believe that they thought if they ordained enough gay men into the priest hood that eventually they could force Rome to agree to ordain openly gay men because eventually there would be so many of them that if they were all removed from their positions there would be a crisis within the USA because they would become so short of Priests that they would have no choice.  Whether this piece confirms or rejects my theory I don't know, but wow I had no knowlege of the Cardinal and even though he is now gone it's scary to think of how long it's going to take to turn it around.  Thank God for great people like Cardinal Burke who came in and fixed my diocese when he was Bishop here.

 He was a person encouraging terror against us, and now he is dead, so lets let it die with him.  If I was emotionally close to someone and was to find out that he was writing, speaking, advising on a personal one on one level and making videos about the destruction of my country and my "people", and was tarageted for assasination and that assasination was carried out.  I don't believe I would be throwing a tantrum becasue he wasn't given a trial.

Yay I wasn't real impressed with that kind of behavior.  Who the hell does he think he is to speak to his constituents in that manner.  Yay everybody likes CC because he likes to throw his supposed authority around, and beat up on teachers, well guess what his state's credit rating was downgraded.  How does he square that circle when he is in a debate with BHO?

I tend to think he wasn't considering he is not the only one saying basically the same thing.  But after reading it again, perhaps you are right.

 It's amazing to me that people who know the truth don't always want to embrace it because it often times is in conflict with their emotions.  My guess is, that BS knows what the cold hard realities are but rejects them in public and says something else because of his desire to be liked.  I like BS and I believe him to be a real conservative, unfortunately I believe that he is falling prey to human nature, which is that he wants to fit in with the crowd or popular kids, and be liked or better yet not be ridiculed.