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PRETTY FACE AND SILVER TONGUE
Re: William Tucker's Put Men Back to Work:

Mr. Tucker was far too kind to Barack Obama when he wrote, "The President is being revealed for what he is -- an academically trained intellectual with a lot of abstract ideas who doesn't have much real feel for the country . . .,". At best Obama is a pseudo-intellectual with marginal or inflated academic credentials. Why do so many conservatives feel they must placate the left and fawn over this obviously inept buffoon? This is PC civility run amok. Obama is a failure who seems bent on destroying our economy and Constitution and it is time to call a spade a spade.

While pleased Sarah Palin is doing well on her book tour, in the wake of her startling resignation as governor of Alaska, shouldn't conservatives/Republicans move cautiously before anointing her "savior" of the right? We need to learn from the radical Democrats' mistake -- a pretty face and silver tongue do not make a leader or President. Unlike independents and populists, who are easily wowed by transitory star power (illustrated by the Obama fad), conservatives should be judicious and careful in selecting "leaders." This is particularly true in the wake of the disaster that is called Obama "Presidency."
-- Michael Tomlinson
Jacksonville, North Carolina

"Our failure to adopt nuclear has reverberated through the economy."

No need to worry, Mr. Tucker. As this is written, lawyers and community organizers in President Obama's administration are hard at work on a perpetual motion machine.
-- Dan Martin
Pittsburgh

A TRULY BORING STORY
Re: Reid Collins' Tiger Truth:

Enough, already! I am sick of the 24/7 coverage of this "story;" there are more important things going on in the world than the marital infidelity of one athlete. Tiger was a cad -- period, end discussion.
-- Gretchen L. Chellson
Alexandria, Virginia

WORTH THE COSTS
Re: Lisa Fabrizio's Nuptual Disagreements:

A radical suggestion: pay unto Caesar what is due Caesar and pay unto God what is due God.

The states have a Constitutional right to regulate contracts and religious institutions have the right to perform marriage rites, so take the state out of marriages completely. Have people make their contracts as they wish and then let them shop their contracts out to different churches, mosques, temples and other religious authorities and seek the sanctification of marriage. Some religious institutions will accept the contracts and others won't. If this is unacceptable to the Left, then they are out to destroy marriage for all in the guise of gay marriage as many on the Right believe. If this is unacceptable to the Right, then they are asking the government to impose their morality on minorities, and that would be inconsistent to their philosophy. Simple, no?

Chaos may reign for a while, but isn't freedom and honest worth the cost?
-- I.M.Kessel

SAVE MONEY, LIVE BETTER
Re: Andrew Cline's A Good Obama Flip-Flop:

Americans are subsidizing those countries that have drug price controls. Pharma makes extra profit in the USA to make up for less elsewhere. Americans should insist on paying the lowest prices they  can get, and the market will then put pressure to allow prices to  balance out, and Pharmas will then adjust. In practice, American  prices will fall and Canadian prices will rise, profits will balance  out between the two and Pharma will still develop new drugs as always. Nothing distributes resources more efficiently than the free market. Nothing.

As Walmart says , "save money , live better." Cline's all wrong on this one.
--Edward

PUSHING ABORTION
Re: Brian Clowes's Good for China, Good for the World?: