Your points six and eight are the operative facts of life.  Any person, including this poor, deceived woman, who believes that someone else, especially the government, will assume responsibility for her safety, is bound to lose, as she has.

It is pathetic the degree to which people are deluded into believing that a police force can have agents nearby when trouble occurs who will rush to their rescue.  Do they also have no fire extinguisher available in case they knock over a heater or a candle?

This is not the woman of the old west.

This story is a concrete example of the very free market provided by the Constitutional order that is the foundation of America.  Will the miracle of Kaiba's physical salvation be a continuing story of even greater accomplishments, or the story of how great hopes are dashed when the people choose to abandon the notion that individual freedom brings greatness.

Will a managed economy and Obamacare make stories like this merely another historical artifact that no longer is of interest?

We, also, bypassed the main page once that photo appeared.  We're not squeamish about this stuff, just disgusted that it is casually treated as a normal part of the landscape.  What ever happened to beauty and tastefulness?

As G W Bush says, Islam is the religion of love.  Can you feel it?  

The love, that is.

"Claiming to be wise, they instead became utter fools."  --  Romans 1:22.

This is the story of willful man.  Refusing God, his entire edifice of understanding is corrupted by his defiance of the Creator.

Even in the '70s, when the series was produced, the BBC would never have allowed such a concept, even with James Burke, to get by without the obligatory suck-up to the managerial state.  It is going so well in England, that the world must have it, like it or not.

In a country with a make-it-up-as-you-go morality, we trust no one that we do not have a first hand relationship with.  We extend some degree of trust to businessmen since there is a marketplace passing judgement on their efforts.

We, however, trust no one in government.  Judges, legislators and bureaucrats are all members of the power seeking class, and can be trusted not at all.

So, are you saying that although Palin is a serious libertarian /  conservative who has the cojones to confront the establishment statists of both parties, she comes up short because she lacks Lady Thatcher's articulation talents and she is therefore inferior to the play-it-safe GOP drones?

The perfect is the enemy of the good, and we have far too few good conservative politicians to take a pass on anyone of Palin's abilities.

FJG;  "If she wants to play politics again she needs to go back to her roots and do some things worth doing, to show what needs to be done and that she is the one that can do them."

We assume that the poll is referring to the 2014 senatorial election.  Palin should run and capture the seat.  Then, in 2016, she can run with approximately the same political stature as Obama, but with actual leadership experience.

Palin/Cruz.  Or Cruz/Palin.  Either way, the GOP will finally matter.

We're in.  Just ordered the Kindle edition.  We read books together, so you can call this a two'fer.

Historically, there has always been a degree of homosexuality in the military.  Occasionally there is homosexual aggression against male military members.  We don't hear about it in the media because it is taken care of in back alley confrontations.  Problem solved.  It isn't uncommon to hear stories about such confrontations.

Our personal view of homosexual activity isn't relevant to this post.  It is about sexual assault targets determining not to be victims.

If we're not mistaken, we are talking about the military.  Isn't that where men and now women are trained to do violence, even to kill, to overcome an enemy threat?  Napoleon said that an army marches on it's stomach.  Had he known more about human physiology, he would have said that an army fights on it's testosterone.

Human physiology is a very real and immutable part of reality.  Once the testosterone starts to flow, whether in training or actual combat, instinct gains prominence.  Don't believe it?  Try getting between a bull moose and a cow in-season.  

Humans are different... to a point, but instincts are overcome by self-discipline, not rule books and punishment.

Women are being trained to assume positions among men trained to be aggressive, not simply assertive.  Women are being run through physical training and taught to use violence against aggressors.  Where is that training being employed?  Can they not handle a male counterpart when he is over the line?

This isn't an issue about women as victims.  It is about women failing to defend themselves even though that is their training and what is expected from them.

We can only add our agreement.  And it is doubtful that almost any civilian could manage the poise and grace which the marines bring to an otherwise menial task. 

As Rush fans, we find the parsing of his pronouncements to be a temptation, and caught the very inference he made, as noted by Richard Fulmer.

But, we walk with great care in being critical of him.  Rush is virtually the only powerful voice that consistently presents the message of conservatism to a mass audience, and we do not want to diminish his influence, lest we unknowingly become a tool of his critics.  If Rush starts to wander off the reservation, a happening we do not anticipate, then we will join the critics.

But that will not be because he articulates a point in-artfully.

Funding is a function of a budget.  The US congress has not passed a budget in four years.  Their solution is continuing resolutions, which merely approve the previous years spending limit, but do not require that the original department budgets remain in place.  The result is that each year the same amount of spending is authorized.

But, the other element in this charade is the debt limit.  The new Secretary of the Treasury, Jack Lew today demanded that the congress approve another increase in that limit.  To the administration, this is a non-negotiable demand, to use his characterization.  Of course this is superfluous, because the Republicans operate in utter terror the moment the rebellious Tea Party members show signs of disapproval.

Bottom line;  there is no mechanism currently functioning within the legislative branch of government to block Obamacare. 

The only way it can be blocked is by courageous action, and if you are expecting that, you haven't been paying attention.

The money supply is expanding apace, but borrowing at record levels offsets the effect of the printing press.  As long as we borrow as fast as we print money, the inflationary explosion will not erupt.

But, when the debt bubble collapses, not only will the economy suffer a massive contraction, but the hyper inflation will be upon us as a second blessing.  When the collapse comes, it will be a mighty crash.