Comments on: Quote of the Day

By: Q

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 08:54:15 +0000

On average, just over 3,000 baby boys and girls are violently murdered each day in the USA on US soil. If we stopped aborting American babies for just a couple days we would have made up the loss of American life as a result. So, please, if anyone claims that their BIGGEST PROBLEM with the war going on in Iraq or Afghanistan is the loss of US soldiers (which have ALL CHOSEN TO SERVE their country and possibly give their lives as a result) then stop whining about lives lost outside the USA and start doing something to end the huge loss of life here within our borders. DON'T CLICK ON THIS!!

By: EW1(SG)

EW1(SG) — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 02:18:54 +0000

#52 Craig R. Harmon:

Does that make my observation untrue or irrelevant?

Nope.

Unfortunately your reference does have the effect of opening the dump drain of a cesspit, however.

By: SPQR

SPQR — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 01:49:50 +0000

I see Hack is still flogging his definition of “losing” with respect to the Iraq War. A definition that means that the US has lost every war in which it has been engaged.

By: Craig R. Harmon

Craig R. Harmon — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 01:46:27 +0000

Dmac, Steve,

Okay. Does that make my observation untrue or irrelevant?

By: mr. falcone

mr. falcone — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 23:01:23 +0000

when all the words are finished and the rhetoric has faded. I just simply believe that the government should not have the power nor authority to determine which businesses should succeed and which should fail. our economy is bigger than this stimulus bill and any other spending bill that come after. it will bounce back, ithas every other time. government intrusion only proved to prolong the healing process.

By: steve miller

steve miller — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 22:50:03 +0000

DMac, truer words never spoken.

Do not – for the love of Pete – feed the troll.

By: Dmac

Dmac — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 22:42:03 +0000

Hax, I think, makes a point that makes me think of this: economics is an inexact science,

You appear to be new here, so please accept the following advice – do not feed the Troll. Nothing good will come of it, as has been amply demonstrated over the past month or so. Review the backlogs and you’ll see what I’m referring to.

By: steve miller

steve miller — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 22:32:04 +0000

I hope Bambi fails, too, but I hope it’s not a spectacular failure – that implies that America would be harmed.

Instead, I hope the Republicans grow a spine, oppose every single one of his socialistic policies, and trump every attempt he makes to co-opt them. And yes, Specter, Collins, and Snowe, this means you.

By: AD - RtR/OS

AD - RtR/OS — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 22:22:35 +0000

We must remember that as spending by Government increases as a share of GDP, individual Liberty has always diminished.
Prior to the era of the Federal Reserve, total Government spending (Fed, State, Local) in times of non-War, rarely exceeded 10% of GDP.
Today, that number is approaching 40% in direct spending, plus another 10-15% in regulatory-directed spending.
Are we more or less free now than we were one-hundred years ago?

Hell, we’re not as free today as we were fifty years ago!

By: Xrlq

Xrlq — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 22:19:15 +0000

Good piece for a liberal, which isn’t saying much. Stranahan seems to have the view popular on the left that wars are won or lost by political parties rather than by countries. I submit that the only failure a patriotic war opponent could reasonably have hoped for is that Bush would have failed to persuade enough Congressmen to vote on the AUMF. Wishing that a policy already implemented should fail is wishing harm on one’s own country.

Conversely, I don’t read Rush’s statement as hoping that Obama will succeed politically in enacting his socialist agenda, and that this agenda will then harm them country. Rather, I read it as hoping he will fail to enact it in the first place. As do I, and as should anyone else who does not admire socialism.