... what does it say about the liberal chattering class, which Hayes epitomizes, that it chokes on calling America's fallen what they rightly and surely are: heroes?

What does it say about conservatives like the folks at NewsBusters that they are afraid of having this discussion? Some of the talk of military heroism is an attempt to justify more wars. There have always been people who want to exploit America's pride in its soldiers for their own causes.

Another anti gun Democrat ...

You don't know that he's anti-gun. Southern Democrats are often conservative NRA types.

I run a reverse pic search on them and often get no hits at all.

I often make them using other pictures. But TinEye should be able to find them.

BFD we don't even care if he was born in Kenya ...

If you still think that's a possibility, you need to go easy on the roof hits for a while.

And personal use vs making it legal are two HUGE differances.

So it's OK to do it, but it's not OK to make it legal to do it?

The Choomwagon is sad to hear that, Gracie.

I consider this a valid case of a person who can genuienly say they are confused.

If you're willing to accept this, why not accept other people whose bodies are telling them they're in the wrong gender?

He never exhaled.

The Choomwagon would be very disappointed that Obama grew up to continue the war on drugs.

But I love this story anyway. Every picture of Obama as a young man now looks like he's stoned.

Presidential motorcade roof hits!

This attack ad is nicely done. Putting Romney's Bain scheme in the middle of those mobster shows -- Goodfellas and The Sopranos were the only ones I recognized -- is not that far off the mark.

Forty five states have hate crime laws. Many of them have Republican-controlled legislatures. Blaming these laws solely on Democrats is not accurate.

If you don't understand that hate crimes have classes of victims, you don't understand hate crimes at all and should do more research before talking about the subject.

Why do you want to break people into "crime classes" anyway?

I don't. I oppose hate crime laws.

Vincent Mcgee sentenced to 65 years ...

Vincent McGee was not prosecuted for a hate crime.

Rcade, are you still going to claim this is not a hate crime ...

Find me a case where a hate crime was prosecuted against a victim because he was a white supremacist.

You know you won't find one because white supremacists are not a group that has ever been considered a hate crime class.

There's no better example of the foolishness of hate crimes than the effort here to define the black community ...

You say some pretty dumb things. The black community is defined? This will come as news to black people who were born that way.

That's a great photo of Obama and the kid, and a nice moment that encapsulates why the election of the first black president was an important milestone.

People who appreciated the picture of Bush dancing with the wounded veteran should be able to see the joy in this.

Hate Crimes are a stupid practice with a noble motive. I understand saying crimes without cause are worse than say robbery, but it opens a door that says some victims are more important than others and that is wrong.

I agree. There's no better example of the foolishness of hate crimes than the effort here to define white supremacists, who were targeted for assault because they espouse racism, as a victimized class.

Sounds like you need to get out more and see your neighbors.

I do. But I get to know people more because of shared activities these days than the fact they live around me. We make friends through things like school and youth baseball, and they are scattered all over.

The same FBI page you are quoting states this:

"For the purposes of collecting statistics, Congress has defined a hate crime as a 'criminal offense against a person or property motivated in whole or in part by an offender's bias against a race, religion, disability, ethnic origin or sexual orientation.'"

I was allowed as a kid to ride my bike all over the neighborhood delivering newspapers, go door to door collecting for school charities and ride several miles to Richardson Square Mall.

It's tough to give kids today that kind of freedom.

Regardless of that, if they hated this group and that was the motivation for the attack, this is a hate crime.

All crimes motivated by hate are not hate crimes. The group targeted has to be a broad one defined by something like race, religion, or sexual orientation. I challenge you to find a single hate crimes case that was prosecuted where the victims were white supremacists.

Can Tucker Carlton get any more desperate for attention?

His career has been heading downhill for years. Daily Caller runs some of the weakest journalism on the right. I'm not surprised he felt like a gun stunt was needed to boost his audience.

I have a weakness for mid-century pulp sci-fi.

I just picked up some Philip Jose Farmer paperbacks. I haven't gone as far back as Leinster, but somewhere around here is some E. E. Doc Smith I meant to read.

I would rather trust myself than the FDA to determine if something is safe for my or my families consumption.

And what do you do to ensure that the food you obtain from grocery stores and restaurants is safe for consumption, before you eat any of it?

You and I did it as a kid, and lo and behold we are still here today.

It's not about fear (though taking candy from strangers is something we teach kids not to do). It's about showing up on a stranger's door asking for something from them and never having any other interaction with them the rest of the year.

Maybe he doesn't remember what it was like growing up or suffered some sort of trauma.

I liked it as a kid, of course. I let my kids do it too. I will give kids candy at my door for as long as it continues.

But it's creepy.

Showing up on strangers' doors asking for candy for children, and never having any other interaction with most of these people the rest of the year, is weird. Hey, neighbor! Give me some stuff! See you next year!