Welcome to Unclaimed Territory.

We could use more people who see that both parties are a fraud and a sham (a shame also?); and that it is people that we care about rather than being a D or an R.

Of course it is a hard sell here to say we should not put people in little ideological boxes, but I hope you keep trying to sell that.

By the way, the fool that has been having a scatological field day with your screen name appears to be one of our banned former members. If not, he is a reincarnation of the one I am thinking of --- regardless, I suggest ignoring the fool.

Gary North posted here? What is the perm link?

needed here ...

defense should be defensive ...

Perhaps because he was not wrong; or because he does not see himself as wrong. You are being overly defense.

I read his first post as saying that it seems like you go after the individual working "journalist" that you disagree with much more often than the corporate masters that give him/her the paycheck and the pulpit.

I think this also, but I see nothing wrong with it. You give specifics, and then many of the regulars here extrapolate to the corporate control by so few outfits.

Glenn, this idea of putting two or more commentators in the same basket and then having at them (and that was an ugly response) is happing often enough for me to say that I think you are overworked.

Relax Glenn, almost everyone here agrees with you the vast majority of the time.

It is great to see "progressives" prove my point about the left and name-calling, disparaging intellect, and so forth. Thanks guys.

However, the ketchup is a vegetable comment comes straight from non-partisan bureaucratic nonsense. Tomatoes are my favorite fruit and are a fruit by the definitions given in biology. However, most people call them vegetables and they are counted as vegetables in the calculations of the public school system for purposes of hitting their requirements. Since ketchup is concentrated tomato if follows that it is a concentrated vegetable food. Of course down in the biology department it would be a concentrated fruit instead.

Bureaucrats are the bane of all civilizations. (except the few examples of anarchy)

So mark this down in your little golden book of cause and effect:

* CAUSE: Republican desire to impeach Clinton

* EFFECT: Clinton impeachment.

Lewinsky was just a means to a predetermined end.

This is exactly so. You hit the nail on the head.

Clinton deserved to be impeached for numerous war crimes, but the DC establishment will not impeach for "foreign policy" actions. So, we impeached him for a blow job. High comedy.

As our fine, though misguided, friends on the left demand a draconian, Stalinist vision for the delivery of health care in this country --- they let a writer give a vision that works.

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/09/03/india/index.html

Aruna Viswanatha writes about a personal experience with American health care verses that in India. It is well worth reading with an open mind and then asking ones self if one can see any lessons there that can be extrapolated into a larger idea of what is wrong now in this country.

... It was about 9:30 in the morning. My friend, who works for an outsourcing firm, called a gastroenterologist -- not a general practitioner but a specialist -- and set up an appointment for 10 a.m. We drove to the hospital, a mile away. It looked brand-new; the floors were shiny and everything glistened. The staff was courteous and the whole place was quiet. The doctor called me in at 10:02. He diagnosed the problem as a bacterial one, gave me a list of what to eat and prescribed a course of antibiotics. The pharmacy counter where I could pick up the drugs was just outside his office. The cost to see the doctor? $6. The pharmacy bill was about $1. Total cost, $7, with no insurance company involvement whatsoever.

Before I left New York, I had spent $20 just on a copay to visit a doctor and get a blood test done, another $20 copay to pick up the test results, and a third $20 installment for a tetanus shot. That was $60, plus whatever my insurance company paid, just so I could get a clean bill of health. ...

An amazing tale is told in just those two paragraphs. The cost was so low that even the working poor in this country could pay it if that was the deal here. But it is not. Ask yourself why it is not. Are the people of India really that much smarter than the people of America? ... ah ... don't answer that ...