I've been to Bosnia, I've seen the mass graves, I know how this ends.

You're right, Chicken. Time to stop the Christian Nationalists now!

There is a war going on. We fight. Suck it up.

And there we have it: the conservative mindset.

For the most part, liberals are trying to engage in dialog, come to meaningful compromises, and see the country do well.

For conservatives, it's a war. It's not politics; it's not an attempt to run a democracy. It's a war.

The next step, then, in the conservative mindset is easy to predict: all's fair. We've seen this with the Lee Atwater types. But if it's a war (and God is on their side!) then why not go the next step? Pick up a gun. Make it a full-fledged civil war.

We've already seen this suggestion out of conservatives. It's not difficult to see where it leads.

I just hope that, in this Civil War, we won't be shy about hanging the treasonous.

When former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee attacked Sotomayor, he got her name wrong and called her Maria.

Huckabee's confusion is understandable. For every GOP white male, every Hispanic woman they've ever addressed they've called "Maria" (as in, "Hey, Maria honey, come over and refill my drink"), just as every Hispanic male is "Jose" (it used to be just "boy," but you've got to give it to the GOP, they've learned from their mistakes).

The GOP has no problem with a Hispanic woman in the SCOTUS, as long as she's there to empty the wastebaskets and mop the floors.

No one should celebrate the Confederate war dead. They were traitors to their country.

You can't disprove any claim about ACORN .

Wow, lacking in basic logic here, dude. You don't "disprove claims"--you prove 'em. So, don't let me stop you. Go ahead.

Prove it.

But no moral value held dear by the American people obliges public servants ever to sacrifice innocent lives to spare a captured terrorist from unpleasant things.

First, let's be honest and substitute the word "torture" for the phrase "unpleasant things."

But no moral value held dear by the American people obliges public servants ever to sacrifice innocent lives to spare a captured terrorist from torture.

Huh. Changes things, doesn't it? Because the "moral value" held by the American people--enshrined in the Constitution ("cruel and unusual"--remember that?) would seem to contradict what Cheney said.

So let's put it the way he actually meant it:

But no moral value held dear by me obliges me ever to sacrifice innocent lives to spare a captured terrorist from torture.

There we go. Now we can see that Dick Cheney = Jack Bauer, save that Jack at least will do the torture himself.

Yep, a fair number of Americans like Dick Cheney.

These are the same folks who believe in angels and don't believe in evolution.

Like generals who prepare for the last war, we're preparing for the last great movement in technology.

We should stop thinking about building cars. We should stop thinking about building electric cars--oh, for a stopgap, sure, until the new technology is on line.

What is the new technology?

We should start growing cars. Cars should be organisms genetically designed, literally from the ground up. And they'll use "biofuels" fersure. Waste products? Designed to be useful.

Want a second car? Your first car will bud off with the right stimulation. Feed, water, and take care of it, and in six months you'd have a mature second car.

Think I'm kidding? Just wait. 10 years ago you didn't think you'd be carrying a 1977 supercomputer in your pocket, either.

For very good reasons we have a law that prohibits using the armed forces domestically.

Sigh.

No, we don't have a law that prohibits using the armed forces domestically.

We have a law that prohibits using the armed forces to enforce the law.

The act says nothing about using troops in disaster relief.

If you're a lawyer, consider returning all the fees you've collected so far.

Middle Eastern politicians will often say one thing to their own constituency, in their own language, and then deny it in English.

This was Perry's notion: he'd talk about secession in Texan, and then deny it to us English speakers.

I read this in the letters section:

I can not see for the life of me why the republicans are so against constructing a viable universal health care plan.

This one is simple. The GOP cares not about things like how good or bad the health care in this country is. The notion that government might construct something that works and that benefits people destroys their entire ideological raison d'etre, however. Where would they be if government wasn't the problem, but was actually the solution?