J Carlton, you are right, doctor and hospital errors kill over 200,000 people per year. Stay away from both if possible.

Sounds like something Obama,Reid, and Pelosi would say.

J and Mike summed it up.

Mike, your comment in yesterdays quotes about democracy being two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for dinner was really good. Sorry that I didn't have a chance to reply yesterday.

Waffler must be joking, no one can be that stupid.

If the nut cases in the Brady bunch and Obama have their way, the people in the U.S. will be disarmed.

The last line of the quote says it all, or nearly all.

When Fidel was taking over Cuba, the New york Times was calling him an agrarian reformer. That's a code phrase for brutal dictator.

I'm with Mike on this.

Nixon tried wage and price controls and it resulted in shortages of nearly everything and was a disaster to the nations economy. Rent control is a good example and always results in shortages of housing. Alcohol and drug prohibition is, and has always been, a disaster, creating more problems and solving none.

This is long over due. Drug prohibition has led to more grief than anything since Nixon set uo the DEA 41 years ago. LEAP.cc.

If I was in charge of reducing government spending, the first order of business would be to get rid of the DEA and tha War on Drugs.

If the drug cops ever break down your door,don't reach for the phone or anything else or your are dead.

Legalization is the right thing to do.

The War on Drugs, which is actually a war on people, doesn't work and has made the "cure" a hundred times worse than the "disease". And from this monstrosity was spawned the asset forfeiture laws that allow police to routinely steal private property without even charging anyone with a crime. Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, LEAP.cc, was founded by a former state trooper who became an undercover drug cop when Nixon started his drug war in 1970. He later saw the harm being done and founded LEAP.

This so called war on drugs is the worst thing going on in this country since 1970. We have Nixon to thank for this atrocity

I have a friend who would agree to this statement but would still oppose legalization. Go figure. This monstrosity known as the war on drugs is one of the worst things that has ever happened to this country. Check out LEAP.cc on the web.

I expected our Commie friend Reston to give it a thumbs down, but, Daniel, you ought to know better.

A comment from someone on this site comes to mind when it comes to elections in this country. "Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large numbers".

Hey, maybe the reason that spending increases is because the folk in Washington are not real good at math.

Bryan, you said it better than I ever could.

Reston, when someone is truly in need through no fault of their own, we should help them. However, we have a huge group of people in this country who love this victim role and won't take resposibility to improve their situation. Case in point, we have over 40 million people on food stamps in this land where opportunity abounds. I volunteer in a program to aid the homeless and at least 30% of these people could do better and should not be on the street. They get to many freebies to bother looking for work.

To quote Yogi Berra,"It ain't over till it's over.

That's why they call it Crook, County.

From a man who presided over a city which is now up to it's eyeballs in debt. As to "a compelling public interest", that's a joke. The hacks in Washington try to convince us that every hairbrained scheme they come up with is done because of a compelling public interest.