The most eye-opening aspect of this whole Palin choice is indeed the reaction of "Feminists". Sure she has flaws but, I strong woman who's rise to prominence was more from other's urging than naked ambition is what most of use prescribed as a really great trait in a leader. The pathetic bashing says more about the wielder than the target. "Feminism has long ago stopped being about the advancement of women but, a faction of a larger movement just as the NAACP stopped being about a color blind society and more about perpetuity.

Hillary with all her strengths really made a Faustian Pact in staying with a philanderer whose insanity is now even obvious to his most strident enablerers. Yet she is an icon.

Then, there is the anti-Hillary bold,powerful,warm with an 80% approval rating in her state but, she is on the wrong side on a few issues so we must minimize her to the nth. How sad, how closed minded...we fail to see ourselves yet again. Fiddler play on

Why did Obama continue for 20 years in this church? Sure he has denounced Ayer's past and Wright's past and present but, why is that sufficient? Wright flat out hates white people and America. Obama was married by-had his children baptized by-was 'spiritually advised by-took the title for his book from his sermon....

If David Duke was my spiritual advisor I do not think my ties to him would go unchecked beyond a simple denouncement. I would be labeled a dumb racist "cracka". You would have me playing the banjo in my overalls,straw in my moufff,on the front porch waiting for huntin' season to begin.

Paglia hits on many points here. One distraction was the WMD comment and a passive press towards Bush's assertions. The proof of WMD was Iraq's past use and Hussien's assertion that he still had them. Wow, did Bush lie about a lie? When a madman who has a history of attacking his neighbors and his own people with WMD's says "I have them and you cannot come looking for them!" what were we to do? Bush had many faults but, his evidence was not to refute Husseins's claims but to confirm that this guy was a threat. How does a press attack an issue when both potential adversaries are in agreement?

Why such a deep dive into this issue? Marriage for all it's warts has been between a man and a woman for-ever. Civilizations that never interacted all came to this same conclusion. How closed minded they all were at the same time-on different continents some isolated from virtually all other cloistures of people be it a group of nomads or a thrivings complicated city-state, they all came to the same basic conclusion.

I am not against homosexual unions. I think they could find another name for it. It is without question a secular attack on organized religion and the family structure just because you are a "catholic' does not make you less of a tool of the larger movement -only more of one. Precisley why you are given a forum -here in secular purgatory.

I know you will eventually have your gay marriage. The incessant badgering of the professional protesters always seems to win out these days. As society unravels, and sadly it is you will give rise to a foe far more intolerant than you had ever dreamed. Those that you attack will not be there to defend you as they have the last two hundred years. It may not seem it but, that which you attack has actually been the body which defended you in the wild.Brace yourself for the true haters-the ones you demand be set free.

Well written but, 'the red meat' start gives away your bias. When you start an article with .."the so called war on terror"... it minimizes everything that follows. I lost friends on 9/11. I have others that are never been able to find their way back due to that trauma. The war on terror has been messy but, it has successful. At what costs is the debate and all are welcomed to it. You are dismissed by 60% of the country when you just bash away at the administration. Smart people with no interest in objectivity are a tragic waste of intellect.

My brother once told me that William F. Buckley once explained his tolerance for liberals was that they were "Funny,happy and interesting " while conservatives were "serious and humorless"- my how things have changed.

Paglia is thoughtful and opened to ideas from those she disagrees with and posters bash her for this confidence. She actually tries to see where a seemingly diametrically opposed thought my have some value and she is vilified. The left has become sad and humorless in it's quest for "Cosmic Justice". The Conservative Movement might have taken some big (& deserved) hits lately but, if some of these posts are a representation of the opposition then, they will rise again. You all owe her a debt for forcing you to confront views and angles that you might never consider even as you dislodge that second cork.

Very tricky -we need better,cheaper care>If the US goes Universal the R&D will dry up and the best Doctors of 2050 will be doing other higher paying tasks instead of saving lives. Who wants have their child operated on by someone who is a product of a quota system?The same reasons why some do not go into teaching today will be transfered to another noble profession. Canadiens come to the states routinely with cash to get diagnostic tests that are either not available or are but, the queue is 6 months and they would be dead before they are diagnosed.

Who makes the next great machine that will routinely save lives in the next generation? If the return is capped then, so will the investment. We must apply human nature and reality to equations. Good intentions does not justify a bad end.