Illinois Review: Little Barry Thinks He's Reagan

David -Thanks for your thoughtful comments (and no motive for your second note; no offense taken!I really appreciate the thoughtful challenges!)

1)My thesis on Obama's presence there is that, even though he acknowledged the purity of the good in this particular shooting (as he HAD to), his charge to link the balance of his caucus in vilifying our robust decent shows that he's united with them.

hey can't get our arguments, so they attempt to disgrace us into shutting up.

2)Yes, the Dems bear full responsibility for our disastrous economy.There are a few mushy Republicans who united in the overspending over the years, sure. but the master crime of the Republicans is in not screaming loudly enough or fighting hard enough to finish the Dems from what they were doing.The Community Reinvestment Act, the support of ACORN, the authorization of Fannie and Freddie, the resistance to Social Security reforms, heck, LBJ's welfare state and FDR's new deal!There have been Republicans with unclean hands, yes, but in the main, our mess would not live without the Democrats.They did it to us, even if a few Republicans here and there helped them.

Remember Christ at the temple, blowing his top at the moneychangers?When anger is just, there's nothing wrong with it.I don't recognize how one can study the papers today without being angry.Conservatives don't act with violence, of course (though dems often look to), but conservatives channel that anger into powerful debate and into activity in the election season.And there's nothing wrong with it.

What the dems want is not real peace as we English-speakers define it, they lack the serenity of islam - a book better translated as "submission."

Re free trade. our founders were indeed believers in free trade.Our first war with England was the trade war that General Washington started in the 1760s, because George III was trying to heavily restrict the colonies ability to deal with anyone but England (he wanted London merchants, called factors, to be the middlemen for all our international transactions).

So yes, our country is frozen in free trade.Not necessarily totally duty-free trade, but the mostly unrestricted freedom to buy and sell internationally to mutual benefit.Some duty collection - a few percent, say - was certainly acceptable to our Framers, as it was the sole important source of federal revenue.The chief thing was that we believed in robust international trade, and when England tried to restrict it, we fought a war of independence to save them from ever restricting our good to sell again!

Cheers, JFD