Celebrate the 4th, and join us in our national anthem...

I wonder how many of these 'vulnerabilities' are intentional, and get patched only when caught. Obviously these contraptions are wide open

Which is why I am against the concept of liberty itself.

Well, that has to include the liberty to compel others to follow your rules, or anybody else's. In that context, history has proven you are right. It will always be abused.

Anything that is technically possible is legal for the government to do.

It is anarchy of authority, or authoritarian anarchy. It is undeniable,and nothing can stop it.

A stooge of the military powers will win the next 'election.'

Military power rules everywhere in the region (hell, the world). It's the financiers who tell them where to point the gun.

This is a restriction of trade. If we can force people to buy tainted beef and GMO foods, surely we can beat this.

You know that you are perfectly welcome to live your heterosexual, monogamous life as you wish. You may not however dictate how others must live theirs. They have all the same rights to all the same benefits you are entitled to.

If you want to outlaw pot, then I want to outlaw farting in public and garlic/onion breath. I'll have to assume you have the same feeling about tobacco smoke, car exhaust, and napalm.

You got it all sideways. Nobody is forcing you into a homosexual marriage or to get an abortion, only that you respect people that do if you wish to be called a human being.

The Egyptian army does seem to be reflecting the will of the Egyptian people in this case.

Wag the dog... It's the same bit of manipulation as 'Arab Spring'... The 'will of the people' put Morsi (Mursi?) into office

If a dead guy can beat Ashcroft, there's always hope. Even Zombie Reagan can score a few...

Actually, I'm on your side, on Federalist grounds, that the DOMA was daft.

That qualifier completely and utterly eviscerates all meaning from that statement. In fact, they are in direct opposition.

I also have precisely zero confidence whatsoever in that piece of work Holder, or the Voting Rights section of the DOJ, and concur with Thomas' remarks on that decision.

That only means you're still a fish who doesn't know what water is.

Thanks for confirming, morals are personal, a way to live your own life, and that you really do appeal to authority in so easily rationalizing its abuse.

But you're so damn intolerable of anyone who disagrees with your narrow world view???

No no, that's not true at all. I have a very 'wide stance'

...are immoral.

to you, as dictated by your upbringing, hardly universal by any means.

And please explain how something is ethical without being moral.. Is it only by the absence of your deity?

Sure, reverend, whatever you say.

Anthony Perkins then?

Better than Obama and certainly better than Romney.

:-) Still funny...