When there are disturbing questions about how to fix the perplexing problems of today - the Founding Father's answers, particularly those prophetic Anti-Federalists, are once AGAIN the only lasting, timeless solution to those problems….

Liberty!

And Ernie here once again describes this, in a thoroughly modern form, deliciously and precise. Thanks Hancock!

Regrettably, the government school systems as well as many of the non-government schools totally fail to teach the fundamentals of the free market, private property based economic system.

So, when a group of socialist teachers "rebel" by outlawing Legos in their classrooms as an object lesson about property, they are just icing their own cake. The students aren't going to be reprogrammed with socialist ideas; there is no "programming" of free market, private property ideas to begin with.

Our outrage ought not be directed against these socialist teachers, but against the thousands of schools who have failed to provide accurate education in the first place.

To single out and criticize the socialist school is to play directly into their hands. By focusing our displeasure on this socialist school, we are implicitly approving the status quo in the supposedly non-socialist schools. The fact is, the status quo is already statist and certainly not free market oriented. The socialist school issue thus distracts our activism and works in favor of the statists.

Pretty clever, these folks of the socialist Left.

T Stevens, Phoenix

***"If I buy it, I own it," one child is quoted saying. ***

Quick get the little brat on medication!!

See http://www.alicelillieandher.blogspot.com .

I will be posting a new essay in a couple of months.

The copper superheats and turns into a molten plasma type substance that will penetrate anything.

He didn't mention anything about Iranians though.

I did hear implications over a year ago that the shaped charges themselves were coming from Iran ... that was of course also disputed.

A big problem as I see it is the continued practice of politicians leading people to believe they can have these government provided or subsidized services for free.

Between money printing, borrowing and slight of hand accounting coupled with coercive tax collection methods (witholding) the proposals for spending are rarely presented to the taxpayer as an invoice. The service is decoupled from the cost.

Emotional do-goodism is often replaced by fiscal prudence when folks are asked to pay when services are rendered.

If I hear one more politician say "the question is not can we afford to fund (insert program name here) ... the question is can we afford NOT to" ... I am going to puke ... again. ;-)

This totally-unpredicted religious cover-up of accurate information – first shocked me, then opened up my naive eyes in 1987. Your 2008 examples repeat this. Falwell should be called out publicly for his intentional manipulation of this country by leaving out conservative Ron Paul in a major publication – After 1987, I know he does it intentionally. Jerry Falwell loves power and the powerful more than right. As far as I am concerned - He and other evangelical leaders want to be our de facto God on this earth, rather than the real one.

Jerry resign. Your "Majority" obviously is not "Moral".

ARS 28-909C: A peace officer shall not stop or issue a citation to a person operating a motor vehicle on a highway in this state for a violation of this section unless the peace officer has reasonable cause to believe there is another alleged violation of a motor vehicle law of this state."

It's amazing that police state checkpoints make you feel "safe". Get a sense of perspective, man..... Seat belts aren't worth our freedom!

Don't even let him discuss the immediate future. But he can supply helpful tips to thwart the state.

The Supreme Court has never upheld suspicionless general purpose law enforcement checkpoints that aren't tied directly to issues of immediate public safety.

Impaired drivers represent an immediate danger to public safety because their actions not only endanger themselves but endanger others as well. Individuals not wearing seatbelts DO NOT represent a danger to anyone else - hence there's no public safety issue at play.

'The Man' may want to brush up on his Supreme Court jurisprudence along with State law before spouting off on topics he's clearly confused about.

Since that time, over 30 years have past, the number of agents has gone up by a factor of ten, funding has increased enormously for Border enforcement, and technology has vastly increased the ability of the Border Patrol to monitor the border.

Nonetheless, you indicate there are still somewhere between 12 million and 20 million illegal aliens in the country.

As such, your premise seems to be wrong. Bush hasn't been responsible for a vast increase in the number of illegal aliens in the country. It's been this way for decades despite throwing more and more resources and man-power at the problem.

There's a definition for insanity that goes something like this - 'Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result...'

Now there's some food for thought!