This article and most of these letters are either or intentionally not understanding the argument. Forget the author, just look at the argument. He clearly is NOT saying the US disappears as a legal entity, just that NAFTA will evolve into an EU-like structure. This is not a fanciful idea and it is one which should be debated on its merits not on knee jerk reactions. Even the interview questions were annoyingly insistent on trying to paint Corsi as a fool by taking his language and intepreting it in the most literal language.

Someone said "Mexicans won't give up their language". Are you serious? Have the French given up theirs? Of course not.

For those who say "it will never happen" I would suggest that in 1957 when the Treaty of Rome established the EEC, almost NO Germans and Frenchmen would have thought it possible, much less probable, that 35 years later they would be sharing a currency. Why is the idea of an 'amero' so hard to believe?

If things followed the European model, I would be all for the whole concept. Think of harmonizing laws so that Mexican environmental standards were raised to our level or US laws regulating labor protection were brought up to Canadian standards? That would be a good thing.

any relation to Ophelia Dahl (and Roald)?

If so, how about an article about Ophelia. I love her.

I am so tired of people stating that Monica Lewinsky could not have consented because Bill Clinton was so powerful.

Imagine this: instead of Monica, it was Mike Lewinsky, a heterosexual 20-something man interning in the West Wing. If Clinton's tastes had run that way and he propositioned young Mike, would we expect Mike to have ended up on his knees just the same?

No, we wouldn't. Mike would have said no. Mike would have run away. Mike would not have consented. Monica on the other hand did.

A 23 year old is an adult. They make life decisions all the time. They get married, they vote, the join the military in a time of war. Maybe she wants to pretend now that she didn't consent or couldn't help herself or the toothfairy made her do it, but that is no more true than when a person claims X, Y, or Z happened because they were drunk. Bullshit. We are responsible for our own actions and it is insulting to a 23-year old adult to imply that she is not.

Why do we keep trumpeting the Administration's figure for deaths? Why not count the contractors? They may be working for Blackwater, but they're still Americans (many of them are).

Glen,

Do you have any stats on how Catholics voted in the last two elections (especially useful would be if they were broken down between Anglos and Hispanics)?

As a Catholic who belongs to a very social justice-oriented parish, I cringe every time Wm Donohoe speaks. (At least South Park got it right when they showed him trying to kill the Pope for not being Catholic enough.) However, like the Nation of Islam which represents a very small percentage of American Muslims but for years was treated as their voice, the Catholic League is a pretty unrepresentative group. Nor can we speak of what "the Bishops" teach as they vary enormously in their interpretations.

In the end, I hope that more Catholics will stand up for the causes of peace and social justice which (I believe) are at the heart of both Jesus's and the Church's teachings.

This whole theory -- the so-called unitary executive -- only makes sense if they never intend on surrendering the office, right? I mean, any sane person would understand that if you make the presidency a dictatorship, then the last thing that can be allowed to happen is to let that dictatorship fall into the hands of the opposition. Dick wants this power, clearly, but does he want Hillary to have it?

I fear for our future.

Come again? Who told you he was esteemed as a historian? Ferguson or his publisher? He sells books for sure, but he is certainly not held in high esteem by professional historians. He's famous for being famous. He's made his name by taking the conventional wisdom, stating the opposite and then trying to marshall some more or less random pieces of evidence to bolster it.

For those who saw The History Boys, he is the model for the slick but shallow teacher, Irwin.

Good Lord, it makes me almost giddy to hear him speak. It's almost like he's an actual person and not simply a politician. Maybe that will never work with our electorate, but I am going to keep giving him my money to help him try.

https://donate.barackobama.com/page/contribute/main?source=homedropdown

This is off topic somewhat, but I wanted to say that several weeks ago I posted a series of comments which ignored Garry Owen's points and instead personally attacked him/her. That was inappropriate of me and I would like to publicly apologize. I have felt bad about it and have been waiting to come across his/her name again so that I could apologize.

Peace out.