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• First Thoughts: The right pushes back

  Tue Jan 11, 2011
  • I find your point interesting. Does that mean that because I have tried to expand my knowledge of an ideology (good or bad) by reading parts of Mein Kompf that I am now a Nazi and am going to kill those who disagree with me or if I read the comunist manifesto I will kill people.

• First Thoughts: The right pushes back

  Tue Jan 11, 2011
  • Although I agree we need to tone down the venom in much of our political speach I have one problem: How can we shut up the extremists and still keep a vital discourse going from differing parties? The only way to really stop the extremists is to change the first ammendment and that would lead to …

• First Thoughts: The right pushes back

  Tue Jan 11, 2011
  • The Supreme Court has already weighed in on finance reform and made it worse. Short of an ammendment to the Constitution recognizing that corporations and organizations are not people and not afforded political rights there will be no reform.

• First Thoughts: The right pushes back

  Tue Jan 11, 2011
  • The shooting was because of a nut job. He needed a target and found an excuse to try to kill her. If anyone got in the way, too bad. I really believe that for some unknown reason, some view resonated with him and he decided in his own twisted way to act on it.

• First Thoughts: The right pushes back

  Tue Jan 11, 2011
  • I am neither liberal or conservative. The lables are a lie. Bill Clinton was a "liberal" and when he left office we had a surplus. George Bush as a "Conservative" and when he left office we had huge debt problems.

• First Thoughts: The right pushes back

  Tue Jan 11, 2011
  • I find it funny that we are talking about ranting and raving of the political community. After reading this bolg, it is no wonder that rant and rave. The name calling on this blog is crazy. The political community relects the community they were elected from.

• First Thoughts: The right pushes back

  Tue Jan 11, 2011
  • The time is now for the political community to stop the banner waving and name calling. This country is going down the tubes. It's not going because of the economy or outside dangers. It is going because we can't even talk to each other any more.

• Live-blogging the Republican press conference

  Wed Nov 3, 2010
  • CrashD, hope you can pay for it. I got screwed by the present healthcare system and I have insurance. Pretty good insurance at that.

• Live-blogging the Republican press conference

  Wed Nov 3, 2010
  • There are really two issues: Neither major party should control all three houses. Second is that the public expects everything to change immediately. The depression took 10 years to clean up.

• Live-blogging the Republican press conference

  Wed Nov 3, 2010
  • riiggghhttt, You were blaming the dems but when called on it you blamed the dems and repubs in the earlier administration. That seems a little strange. The repubs controlled both houses of congress from the last 2 years of Clinton to the last two of Bush.