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If you don't understand the problem, you will rarely be able to fix it. Reagan has this one right, but our leadership in our country has failed once again to address the real problems and address them head on. We have to stop the Mexicanization of our own politics before we can address those...

Maybe he missed Santa Anna's surrender to Sam Houston's forces at the battle of San Jacinto. There is a monument and everything there to remind everyone. So much for a quality education. Following his logic, the Spanish still have a claim on Mexico and going back further, the native Indians.

rider, we all make decisions based on the best information we have. In the case of the republicans, many have made the mistake that they were real idealogues who believed in the party platform. Recent history has shown that they do not practice what they preach. When they don't, I don't mind...

The church was the biggest proponent of a "flat earth" and that the sun and stars rotated around the earth. They sent many a heretic to death in the inquisition because of it.

I agree that this is just political hogwash. We have enough competition problems in our own country that are not being addressed. What are they going to do next, sue Iraq for lower oil production than before the war?

Caustic Burno, you mention an economic concept here. That concept is to differentiate and then discriminate. By doing so, you can increase your profits. The feds have not had a national policy on gas formulation and hence it has been up to the states to come up with their own policies...

JodyWy, you are correct about the price of oil. There is little control by politicians of the price because it comes from an unstable world market. The only thing we can do is encourage domestically produced energy. France gets about 70% of their energy from nuclear. Why are they the world...

Kinda funny how we can have ethanol plants built everywhere so much that it has a real effect on the price of corn, but can't build or add on to a refinery. Ethanol plants are just as polluting. It is all a matter of priority and money. Oil companies have no problem keeping a bottleneck that...

Memanpa, this is going to be my last post on this subject to you for obvious reasons to probably all but you. The Constitution includes the Bill of Rights. I cited the 7th amendment as an example of where the Pres. is not preserving and protecting the rights of citizens under the constitution...

When you become president you take an oath to protect the Constitution. I don't see that being done. Prolific arbitration agreements by business completely undoes the 7th amendment. Domestic spying, habeous corpus, and a lot of other rights are being taken away. You need to get a grasp on...

Joining the service is voluntary. Going to Iraq if you are called to go there is not.

A local student had a bad accident and one of the kids died. You are right, IL rancher, it is really sad. I think they were both "troubled" kids. Cowpuncher, I don't think the two relate. I don't like to see any excuses that makes us feel better about losing troops---or teenagers. We are...

Markets are always about supply and demand. We haven't done enough in our country on the demand side--or the supply side. The substitutes for gas and oil (nuclear energy, wind, solar, etc.) haven't been emphasized in terms of resources. We will run out of oil and every barrel that gets...

Turkey, you are right, and I don't hold your area in disregard because of this. It was his act, and his act alone (that we know of). There should be no community guilt associated with it at all or even republican guilt---not so in the Foley case where it was covered up for the good of the...

So when do we stop? Look what happened in Vietnam. Years, tons of money, and many, many U.S. soldiers dead and wounded. Not taken care of when coming home etc. Vietnam is still communist---and we are trading with them!! Sometimes the cost of the war needs to be debated before we get into it...

Sometimes you have to look beyond the name and party and look into the actual policies. The sum of the policies makes the political man.

Soap, do they just elect anyone with a "republican" name tag where you are from?

Ethanol is really nothing more than a shell game. It doesn't really help anything except corn prices while we once again are strayed from focusing on a real energy policy. You should know that, rider.

One monkey wrench in the deal is what do we do with illegals who have kids that are U.S. citizens? Another thought is what do we do in our society when the lawmakers/courts don't even allow laws to make companies pay the full costs of their workers on society? The Maryland Walmart deal to...

Let us see. The feed conversion for chickens is about 2 lbs to every lb. of gain. The average price of chickens will could up, if corn was their sole diet, from $2.00 corn to $4.00 dollar corn from 56 lb corn from /bushel from 7.1 cents per lb. to 14.3 cents per lb. for feed costs (yes, I...