This may not be necessary, I think it is at least possible that Komen is doing this to get out from under this initial onslaught.  They are getting plenty of headlines(concerning aplologies) that should get the media off their backs, but are they really reversing themselves?  Lets wait and see.  Please read link.

http://www.lifenews.com/2012/02/03/komen-may-continue-to-fund-some-planned-parenthood-grants/

and another

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/komen-revises-funding-policy/2012/02/03/gIQAVRa3mQ_story.html?hpid=z1

I ask you, what do you think the good folks at Komen think of Planned Parenthood today?  

I will root for Newt in Florida for the same reason I root for there to be 14 teams with 10 -1 records at the end of the NCAA  football season.  It is the best way to illustrate how flawed the system is for picking national champions. 

Just curious, has anyone decided, as I have, that unless someone else enters the race they will vote third party.  That is my plan if Gary Johnson runs as third party.   I would much rather vote for a Mitch Daniels, but Gary Johnson it is if things remain as they are.

 The comparason of Riggleman to Phillips is not the best.  Phillips had a reputation of forgoing the negotiations and jumping straight to nuclear option.  It worked for him... for a while.    Riggleman had a reputation as a good soldier.  I am sure he gave quite a bit of thought before deciding to risk it all on the little leverage he had.

If Tony LaRussa decides to leave the Cardinals after this year, though Riggleman wouldn't be my first choice(Jose Oquendo would be my 1st choice) I wouldn't mind at all having him manage the Cardinals.

 Well, his parents spoke out a little today.  They didn't blame anyone, they claimed to have no idea how this happened.   Wow the grief they are suffering now must seem unbearable.  I am glad I was wrong about them.  They should be remembered in our prayers.  

A person who suffers any kind of recurring hallucinations, should be considered dangerous in my opinion.  Just as an epileptic is considered too dangerous to be allowed to drive, a person suffering from hallucinations should not go unmonitored or untreated.

Quick question

In a psychiatric evaluation in which a psychiatrist is trying to determine  whether a patient is a danger to self or others, is it possible that he would find that a person is suffering from hallucinations and/or delusions but that he/she is not a danger to self/others.  

 Whether or not that source is reliable or not, it is obvious that the shooter was mentally disturbed and that the authorities, were aware of this.  Who could have done something?  The two most obvious answers are his parents and the sheriff.  The sheriff, whose behavior has been bazaar, is spending all his time spouting off about political vitriol, ect.  I predict when the parents finally speak, they will admit to their son having some "issues" but that he never turned violent until listening/ watching right wing radio/television.  The media has provided them with a life raft, I fully expect them to climb aboard and join the sheriff in his outrage of the right wing political rhetoric.

It turns out the "local guy" actually already had a national radio show based in New York.  I became an avid Rush Limbaugh listener.  I subscribed to  "The Conservative Chronicle" and  "National Review" after hearing ads for them on The Rush Limbaugh Show.  My education was underway. 

I soon became a political junkie.  My old college roommate still makes fun of me for watching C-span and listening to Rush Limbaugh at the same time.  I watched every minute of the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings, skipping several classes to do so. 

I have evolved recently to more of a libertarian, but I still remember fondly my political awakening back in the late 1980s.

 I first became politically aware my freshman year of college. 

I joined a fraternity and at the time the school was really cracking down on hazing.  As pledges, we were required to dress up in suit and tie one day a week and carry a wooden cane. 

By my sophomore year the school was trying to eliminate this along with lots of other benign activities.  We were constantly being hassled and threatened with being kicked off campus and having our charter revoked.   Well, at this same time a black fraternity had pledges carrying around back packs full of bricks, and were required to carry a casket full of bricks up a very steep hill in the middle of campus.  Not a word from anyone in the administration.  This was the first of many double standards I was  to become aware of while in college.  (BTW a pledge of an all black fraternity was killed during a hazing incident at this school a few years later, though it was not the same frat that carried the casket of bricks).  

A friend of mine turned me on to a local guy on the radio who seemed to articulate what I believed. cont.

A simple comparison of the MSM media coverage of the '00 campaign v. the '08 campaign is enough to completely discredit them with any fair minded observer. It is simply indefensible. (though I look forward to Conor's dissent)

In '08 the media deemed the 20 year relationship of Obama and Jeremiah Wright an irrelevant distraction in which the republicans were trying to 'swift boat' the Obama campaign.

A George W. Bush speech at Bob Jones University was deemed newsworthy enough in the '00 campaign to mentioned numerous times in every medium of media from February through the election in November.

When Bernie Goldberg's first book on media bias came out he repeatedly said that there was no conspiracy in how the media covered the right, they were just out of touch with where the center was. I disagreed with him then. I wonder what he thinks now?

Please, lets keep this thing focused until we win a few elections. Then the libertarians and conservatives can debate these other issues.

I share some of the same concerns as you (so do many in the Tea Party) but I ask you where you are more likely to have an open honest debate about those concerns. I think this is a purpose the Tea Party movement can serve. Lets win a few elections then let the Libertarians and Conservatives fight it out. The main thing to focus on now IMO is to get the socialists out of power.

I really think you overstate so called coalition between the establishment GOP and Tea Party, in fact I think the Tea Party has finally shaken the foundation of the "establishment" GOP by opposing it in many areas.

The Tea Party strikes me as much more libertarian in their views than the establishment GOP. The Tea Party is not ashamed of their conservative values as the "estblishment" GOP appears to be. No, there really isn't much of a coalition at all.

Conor, Interesting that USSR was considered as a possible target. We can imagine what their response would have been. My guess is quick, violent, and decisive.

I wonder if the lead student may have weighed and contrasted possible responses from the USA under Carter against a response by USSR, and used this comparison as a selling point to move against the US.

I am curious as to your opinion on why the hostages were released when they were. Does the fact that Reagan was coming into office play into it at all, or was that just a coincidence?