"Stupid Child if she wanted to sell her soul to the Devil all she had to do was wait until she was a adult and work for a corporation or become a politician"

Or approach me with a viable offer.

"You mean the separation of Church and state?"

"because that keeps us free, you see if there was not that separation of Church ans state, the state would eventually favor one religion over another, which would discriminate other religions."

The Constitution does not mandate the 'separation' of church and state. It mandates that an ESTABLISHMENT of religion is not allowed and it restricts that caution to Congress.
In other words, there can be no established national religion. No other inference is valid.

"74% of liberals call call themselves Christians"

About the same percentage of bank robbers who alter their appearance, I bet.

Small change. I am waiting for the genius who can genetically alter women so their breasts give beer instead of milk.

Check back with us in ten years, Rigel.

You know, good thread.
I have many times posted the only effective campaign finance reform would be to make every single penny accounted for by donor and to make all false/deceptive reporting of such a felony.
The candidate and campaign treasurer should be responsible for it, too.
But with private groups (whatever political bent) I have trouble with that standard. While they seek the public eye almost as much as a candidate, they are still some fraction of we the people and are vulnerable to government harassment as such.
That the big players went un-harassed is no surprise. They had lawyers, funds and connections at the ready. The smaller groups were low hanging fruit.
But it is the smaller, grassroots groups I want to protect more.
Anyone have a solution?

I say good for Obama. He is one of many African-American people saying such these days and it is a welcome change from the victim ploy the media and political groups perpetrate.

"..S.I. Hayakawa.."

Interesting man to read about. He started an organization to make English the standard language. Born Canadian, Asian ancestry...who said the Pubs were not inclusive?

Eh. Impeachment or special counsel? No. Just let the system work. The republicans have their slow cooker heated. If neither party can accomplish anything over the next three years, we the people win.

I'll do a little research and see if I can come up with a viable thread title like "JFK Murdered Just Blocks From A Gay Bar."

"Gay Man Murdered Blocks from Stonewall"

Was there a connection in this murder?
Well, no. But it makes an effective propaganda headline.

"Yes, but one of them isn't the way the IRS tags their searches"

Apparently, Obama disagrees with you, Corky. He called the IRS actions outrageous and pledged to take action. You seem to think it is okay.

"Having a gun in his car didn't make him safer."

He will be safe in prison and we will be that much more safe, too.

"I've never seen one explode... I doubt if she ever will."

May you never see that. Seriously. But perhaps you are not getting out enough these days.

Thanks, Dave. I guess this means the IRS was not used as a Pretorian guard to harass Obama's political opponents during the election, right?

I never put cranberry juice up my nose.

The issues were matters of law, not dimpled chads. Even the NY Times recount concluded Bush won. Stevens was speaking in front of liberals for liberals. From the Wiki article on the decision:

Bush v. Gore, 531 U.S. 98 (2000), is the United States Supreme Court decision that effectively resolved the dispute surrounding the 2000 presidential election in favor of George W. Bush. Only eight days earlier, the United States Supreme Court had unanimously decided the closely related case of Bush v. Palm Beach County Canvassing Board, 531 U.S. 70 (2000), and only three days earlier, had preliminarily halted the recount that was occurring in Florida.

In a per curiam decision, the Court, by a 5-4 vote,[1][2] ruled that no alternative method could be established within the time limits set by Title 3 of the United States Code (3 U.S.C.), § 5 (Determination of controversy as to appointment of electors), which is December 12. However, seven of the justices agreed that there was an Equal Protection Clause violation in using different standards of counting in different counties.[3] Three concurring justices also asserted that the Florida Supreme Court had violated Article II, § 1, cl. 2 of the Constitution, by misinterpreting Florida election law that had been enacted by the Florida Legislature.

The decision allowed Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris's previous certification of George W. Bush as the winner of Florida's 25 electoral votes to stand. Florida's votes gave Bush, the Republican candidate, 271 electoral votes, one more than the required 270 electoral votes to win the Electoral College and defeat Democratic candidate Al Gore, who received 266 electoral votes (a District of Columbia elector abstained). Media organizations subsequently analyzed the ballots and came to varying conclusions about who would have won if the election had been conducted differently.