In Civilized Societies, If You Are Offended

House Gop Leader John Boehner On Monday Rightly Sounded The Alarm Over Billions In Stimulus Tax Dollars That Could Potentially Go To The Association Of Community Organizations For Reform Now (acorn). But The Republican Leadership Has Only Scratched The Surface Over What Amounts To A Bottomless Slush Fund For A Bigger Coalition Of Housing Entitlement Thugs.

Who Would Have Guessed That The Shots Heard 'round The World 225 Years Ago Would Fall On Deaf Ears In A Nation Now More Sympathetic To The Gun-grabbing Redcoat Than The Gun-bearing Rebel?

Contrary To The Belief That Obama Is America's Lightworker Who Can Defy Political Gravity, H.r. 1, The American Recovery And Reinvestment Act Of 2009, Guarantees More Of The Same Old Borrow-spend-panic-repeat Cycle That Got Us Into Our Current Mess In The First Place.

In Civilized Societies, If You Are Offended By A Cartoon, You Do Not Burn Flags, Take Up Guns And Raid Buildings, Chant Death To Your Opponents, Or Threaten Suicide Bombings. You Write A Letter To The Editor.

It's Time For A 21st-century Retirement Age. If 40 Is The New 20 And 50 Is The New 30, Why Shouldn't 70 Be The New 65? The Last Time Washington Politicians Tinkered Ever So Gingerly With The Government-sanctioned Retirement Age, Ronald Reagan Was In Office And Generation X-ers Were All In Diapers.