I guess we don't have a fourth amendment to our constution anymore.

#28 | POSTED BY SNIPER

So while your side has spent all your energy defending your 2nd Amendment rights, they snatched your 4th Amendment rights. Weren't your 2nd Amendment rights supposed to prevent that? What happened?

The white race invented fire, the space shuttle & the internet (and most everything in between).

The world will miss whitey and all the accompanying benefits/accomplishments when they're gone.

#29 | POSTED BY DEAN_BUVIA

Wow! Just Wow! If you ever needed a definition of White Supremacy, here it is. Yeah, black and brown people just can't wait to vote for your guys.

Unless white people are prepared to try to implement a South African style apartheid regime they will lose their dominant political position. Some people just can't deal with that. It makes their heads explode.

#20 | Posted by RightisTrite

You're missing the basis of "conservative" philosophy:

"My money and property is more important than the lives of others"

Profits over People.

Charity for the poor is VOLUNTARY.

Taxes are NOT VOLUNTARY!
#11 | Posted by Marty

Paying Taxes in the United States is mandatory (and authorized in the Constitution).

Living in the United States is VOLUNTARY.

You are completely free to move to a country where taxes are VOLUNTARY (provided you can find such a beast!).

We are not free, we do not live in a Democracy.

#46 | Posted by nutcase

There will be a "conservative" coming along in a few minutes to tell that the US is not a "democracy" but a "republic". Apparently concepts like "democratic republic", or "representative democracy" challenge their brains too much.

I still find it amusing that these "libertarians" cannot point to a single functional nation that operates according to their principles. They must be the "smartest guys in the room" since they apparently know more than any successful nation about how to run a country.

C'mon, just one example of a successful Libertarian nation, anywhere, any time.

...Anyone?...Anyone? ...Bueller?

Other "modern industrialized nations" provide as much education as a person has the aptitude for, not just K-12 or its equivalent, but university or trade school at no cost to the student. Some even provide stipends to college students. And these days K-12 is being starved of resources in this country, while the cost of colleges and trade schools escalates at multiples of the inflation rate. We don't seem to even be trying to be competitive any more.

Since plan B prevents pregnancy (it is not an abortion pill) within 72 hours of unprotected sex, do you want to wait until the 72 hours expire and then be faced either with abortion or teenage childbirth? This seems like, at a minimum, the least worst choice after the fact. The girl has already participated (voluntarily or otherwise) in unprotected sex.

#4 | Posted by J_Galt
Provide women an excellent education and the problem takes care of itself, without coercion.

And who pays for that?

I suppose you can name a modern industrial nation that does not pay for the education of its citizens (besides the US, that is).

I defy anyone to identify a significant percentage of Europeans who would trade their systems for ours. Even the extreme right wingers in Europe (England excepted) would never consider a health system like ours. The right wing in Europe is to the left of most US Democrats.

#63 | Posted by MUSTANG

Do you get that a society is about more than jobs and money? That people form a society (we are wired that way biologically) because we are better equipped to survive and thrive cooperatively rather than independently?

"No man is an island unto himself" -- Donne

Ayn Rand, an admirer of the psychopathy of a serial killer, wrote junk fiction lauding selfishness and you people take it as a roadmap!

An education, complete with history and philosophy, might cure you of your delusions.

There has never been a successful country operated on your Randian principles. Why do think that is?

"no one is entitled to an education."
#59 | Posted by J_Galt

...except in all the other "1st world" countries. Those countries see an education as a human right. Just not us. Just like they see health care as a human right. American "conservatives" think the only right is the right to be left alone to make as much money as possible. They don't want to pay the price to live in a civilized society. They should move to a libertarian paradise where they govern according to your philosophy. What's that? There is no such country? Gee, I wonder why. If it's such a great idea somebody, somewhere must be running their country based on it, right? Somalia, maybe?

It's amazing how the right sees no value in cultural education, while at the same time they tout the superiority of "Western Culture". Where exactly do they think that culture comes from? There is more to education than "job training". It's the "educated" people (whether college educated or self taught) who are the innovators in society. Certainly not the MBA's, lawyers and bankers who rule over it. And by the way, it wasn't the government that required people to have a degree to get a good paying job, it was the "free market" that started throwing resumes away if you didn't have a bachelor's degree.

Why would Planned Parenthood be in the breast screening business?
#13 | Posted by CaseyJones

Maybe because they are actually in the Women's Health Care business.

#11 | Posted by e_pluribus_unum at 2013-06-05 03:12 PM | Reply | Flag: Projection

#14 | Posted by Federalist

So it's ok for a society to just kill its crazy people? Do you think they're voluntarily crazy?

Uh, Interstate Commerce clause?

"Of course it did. That's called prudent management of limited funds. California had a lot more worth saving."

...sounds like market forces to me, conservatives should embrace it.

There was a time when news wasn't a profit center, I weighed a lot less and had hair, too.

...and in many (not all) ways it was a better America.

Yes if you legally dwell in an area and pay taxes you are contributing; but that does not mean you should have a say over the laws that govern the people.

Taxation without representation, huh?

It's just the "free market" donchaknow? The content owners Disney (ABC, ESPN), Viacom (CBS, MTV, Showtime), Comcast (NBCUniversal, USA, Syfy, ) Time Warner (HBO, Cinemax, CNN, TBS, TNT) call the tune and all the delivery companies (Time Warner Cable, Dish Network, DirectTV) get to do is haggle over how much they have to pay for the content (and which channels they have to carry to get it). Customers don't want to pay higher prices, so the delivery companies get squeezed between content owners who want more money and customers who don't want to pay higher prices.

I find it strange that these "America 1st"-er's seem to be content with the decline of the American standard of living. They actually seem to applaud the growing gulf between the rich and the poor as some kind of morally justified outcome of capitalism. They are always demanding "freedom", yet it seems to only mean the freedom to limit the freedom of others who are in some way not like them (female, gay, black, asian, disabled, mentally ill, take your pick).

Other countries have better health outcomes, educational outcomes and just plain "happiness" (as in pursuit of) than we do, but the "conservatives" always seem to demonize them as "socialist" or some other epithet.

My question to them is: What is your solution, and how exactly (no vaporous platitudes) would it work? Or is it OK that America's standard of living continues to decline compared to the others in the "rich country" club?

Edwards is a doctor, not a lawyer, no?
#14 | Posted by DixvilleNotch

Yes, no.

He made big bucks on medical malpractice and product liability suits.

Well, then, who do you believe?

"Get serious! We need to find another white, male, southern Christian fast or the whole ricin crisis/opportunity is lost!"

Rahm

#7 | Posted by Diablo

Right, because a "conservative" politician would never try to take advantage of a crisis. Sheesh...