Hey AJ, I live in Sedona but I wouldn't mind driving down sometime to Phoenix area for a meet up. My wife likes getting the Sunday edition of the Republic for the coupons and employment section.

Don't worry AJ, it's the news and almost everyone else!!!

The thing that bothered me the most in the article is the same thing that bothers me when watching TV. They are the Democrat Party not the Democratic Party. This country is governed under Democratic principals. By calling them the Democratic party, it confuses and misrepresents their beliefs. Being socialist in nature, Democrats are the opposite of Democratic!!!

Thanks. I agree. Its a force of habit,. I'll see if I can adjust it.

Well written AJ. The only thought I could add is that Marxism is a religion whose adherents exhibit the same faith and fidelity to Marx's ideas as Christians do to the teachings of Jesus or Muslims to Mohammed's ideas expressed in his Koran. As such, trying to employ reason with BO and the Democrats ans the Progressives is bound to fail. Our only hope lies in convincing enough Americans that the ideas expressed by the founding fathers, Any Rand, and we in the Gulch are the only way to regain the paradise on Earth that America was in its infancy.

Thanks. I will notate the quote of Henry Morgenthau.

Excellent article AJ. Thanks.

Bull's Eye!
The Obama regime is like the "New Deal" of FDR only on steroids.

Thank you. Az Republic? I take it that you are also in Phoenix (can't imagine anyone outside Phoenix making any effort to read that fish wrap). Perhaps sometime, if your interested, we can meet up for coffee to chat

Very enlightening article. What the president and his party is doing will stifle America. Just as it is happening in Russia right now. The Az Republic (despite being a leftist newspaper) reported in the Sunday edition that young Russian entrepreneurs and those who ambitious are leaving their homeland due to the Putin's harsh regime plus the state controlled banks refusal to lend money. The only way that we could do a little better is what Stossels' guest said on his program the other night: (paraphrased) That technology, computer, internet and associated areas will grow faster than the gov't can compensate. I hope that's true!

Well done.

Great piece, thank you!
I like your "cancerous" description.
When I lived under the communist regime, it occurred to me that their social system is to human society analogous to what the cancer is to living tissue. Just as cancer degenerates the fundamental processes of life, so does the communism (socialism, progressivism etc. are just alternate labels cynically intended to obfuscate and mislead) degenerate all the basic processes of human society: family, education, personal interactions, economic activity, justice and governmental power.
Sorry, I just had to show how much I agree with your using that term.
Again, thank you.

Great summary, and in fairness to the Jesuits and in a non-religious , non metaphysical framework they hammered in to my soft matter was that "you can never put logic where it does not belong" and "you can never reason to a mind that does not think".
This assumed you have a "well ordered mind and the education to support it". AR is the education along with our founding Fathers who provided the arena to live it.

Thanks. There was much more I could say but I was given essentially 24 hours to turn something in.