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Face it.  We, as a group, are good at science.  What a coincidence that there is a large number of global warming skeptics here!

We can't out-liberal the liberals, but we can outflank them.  Liberals like immigrants (legal and illegal) to collect welfare and vote.  What they don't like is immigrants WORKING.  Remember, they have the unions to contend with.  Guest worker programs are the way to beat them without violating conservative principals.  And maybe we can de-emphasise workplace enforcement, since business owners aren't always at fault here.

Our current emphasis on workplace enforcement is a mistake.  Between that and rulings by liberal judges, we have a situation where illegal immigrants can receive welfare, but they can't work.  Worst of both worlds.

Andrew,

I think its a good idea.  It addresses the rule-of-law issue while at the same time stopping the deportation of people's grandmothers.

Hostility to immigration (even illegal) has never been a good fit for an entrepreneurial movement such as ours, but we do need to respect the rule of law.  Your suggestion addresses both issues.

I would add two things to it.  1)  Link it to completing the border fence.  That way when liberals delay its completion, we can turn it around on them.  2) Increase legal immigration.

We can outflank the liberals on immigration without violating our principals.

Would it help us win more Hispanic votes?  Maybe/ Maybe not.  Regardless, it's the right thing to do.

You're right.  I had a brain hiccup.

Obama's handlers should have taught him to sit up straight. When Obama hunched forward and glared at Romney, he looked like Snoopy doing his "vulture" routine.

Does that kind of weirdness help him with his base?

 "On January 20th, [1973] there will be approximately 30 seconds when Nixon isn't President.  Enjoy it while it lasts!!" said my father when I was 13 years old.  I enjoyed those 30 seconds.

And Watergate was a blast!  I spent the summer of 1974 glued to the TV watching the hearings and hoping Nixon would be caught.  When Nixon resigned, it seemed too good to be true.

In 1976, I wondered "Who is this crazy old coot who thinks he can be President!?  He's an ACTOR!!" I briefly rooted for Jerry Brown and then became a big Jimmy Carter fan.  We needed change and Carter was the man to do it!

I defended President Carter long after others had given up on him, but his weakness in the hostage crisis made me throw in the towel.  We needed someone else!  As a registered independant, I briefly rooted for Ted Kennedy, George H. W. Bush and John Anderson.  I was disappointed when it came down to a choice between Reagan and Carter.  I held my nose and voted for Reagan.

Reagan started to amaze me from his first day in office and  I never looked back!

I agree with a lot of the comments above.

I would like to add John Tamny for economic commentary and the late great Robert Bartley for that and everything else.

If you could combine Will's grasp of domestic issues with Krauthammer's understanding of foreign policy, you'd have the perfect columnist.

Well ... maybe Bolton would be better on foreign policy.

Good one! :-)

Haven't got to that part, yet.

If Romney promised to pick a pro-lifer as his VP, that trumps any perceived good Condi would bring to the ticket.

Ain't gonna happen.

Road to Freedom - Arthur Brooks

The True Gold Standard - A Monetary Reform Plan without Official Reserve Currencies by Lewis E. Lehrman (Oct 4, 2011)

Any book about free trade or maybe about the Smoot-Hawley Tariff's contribution to the Depression.

Thank you, Larry!  As it turns out I ws wrong about Krauthammer's position on this.

All in the Family:  That's a good point about Meathead being a leech (and a preachily condescending one at that), but Archie's views (like his admiration for "Richard E. Nixon") were always being held up for ridicule.  Then there was the "conservatism=racism" theme of the show.

That said, I admire Archie too.  Here are some great quotes of his.

Nick, your last point is particularly well taken.  Will they respect the Chief Justice in the morning?

"All In the Family" , "Good Times" and the Unitarian Church.