Oh, I don't know. Maybe former Director of the National Security Agency and Director of the Central Intelligence Agency Michael Hayden? Maybe that's why Chris Wallace interviewed him recently. Isn't that why there's a CNN or a Fox News? So they can talk to people who really are experts?

Mayonnaise, a little bit of mustard, celery, fresh ground black pepper and sometimes egg - or not. The variable is whether or not we even have eggs. I only buy them when I know I'm going to use them right away.

The difference: Dylan is still writing great songs. For the Stones, the well ran dry decades ago.

Beautiful picture... congratulations!

Not because it failed to toe the party line but because the bankruptcy was structured in a way that violated the law. The UAW didn't care about the law and I won't reward lawlessness.

The wife just bought a Mini Cooper. It's used but it only has 18,000 miles on it so it's essentially new. And it's the base model so it wasn't too expensive. I absolutely love it. If someone gave us a Volt, I doubt I'd feel half as happy about it.

Or how about a managed bankruptcy that didn't break the law? I know. I know. Crazy idea ...

Why on earth do people think a sales tax or a VAT would be less complex than a flat tax? I understand the economic benefit of consumption taxes vs. income taxes but any kind of sales tax would insert the federal government into every single transaction. Sales taxes are structurally more intrusive than a flat income tax and a VAT is exponentially more so.

Ask yourself: how many paychecks do you earn? how often do you buy stuff? What do you do more? - collect paychecks or spend money? If you want less government, give it less to do. A flat income tax gives the government less to do.

What WOULD have come of it? Harry Reid runs the Senate. The media is in the bag for Obama.

Not true. Boehner, Lugar, McCain all pushed back. McCain didn't have a problem with intervening but he did object to Obama not consulting Congress.

War crimes? What the hell are you talking about? As for Libya, Obama went to war without even consulting Congress. Her contrast with Reagan highlights how drunk with power Obama has been.

Moderate Republicans piss me off all the time. They frequently don't even stay Republican, i.e. Jim Jeffords, Lincoln Chaffee, Arlen Specter. Jeffords' defection cost us control of the Senate. Specter's made Obamacare the law of the land.

I'm no fan of Romneycare but Massachusetts is free to visit upon itself whatever kind of hell it wants. What they do doesn't affect me in the least. That's the way federalism works. Obamacare offers me no such escape hatch.

So what if the stimulus was one third tax cuts? In other words, it was two thirds boondoggles and political payoffs. Less than $300 billion in tax cuts in a $15 trillion economy is basically a peehole in a snowdrift. Why should the GOP have voted for that?

Her arguments aren't very persuasive.

Thanks, 10 cents. I know that. I also read a lot and post not so much. It was enough to just tell this story about my mom. I'll recycle this story again in a year or two.

Thank you, Nanda.

They weren't wire-taps. The were phone records - this number called that number at such and such a time on such and such a date. It wasn't simply a violation of the Constitution. It was a highly inefficient and stupid way to go about finding who leaked what to whom. The leaker was someone in the government. It was someone who had the necessary security clearances. Those are the people you target. Instead of looking for a needle in a haystack they should have been looking for the turd in the punch bowl.

Thank you 10 cents, DocJay. Mom had Lupus which meant she battled to stay alive pretty much all her life. She was tough in part because she loved well. Knowing what's important makes a person stronger.