Now remember, it's for our own good that bureaucrats pester us.

Those "external authorities" just might be the government.

Check out LEAP.cc to see how this War on Drugs is creating crime in the streets, corruption of law enforcement agencies, filling our jails to overflowing, making drugs readily available to children, and at a cost of billions per year. And it has not stopped drug use and never will.

David,Hollywood, I fear that some of that pixie dust from Hollywood has scrambled your brain. Freedom is always chaotic as people make choices, not always correct ones. Now you have a communist mayor of New York that wants to decide what's best for everyone in the empire city.

Anonymous,Eugene, I can forgive your idiocy since you live in the liberal , nut capitol of the planet, Eugene, Oregon. Thank goodness that Gates is gone.

An-slinger was slinging pure nonsense. What a bigoted idiot.

This is why judges gave so many harsh prison time to people who smoked a joint. This was a natural result of this horrible, so called War onDrugs.

The War on Drugs is nothing more than a war on people. It increases crime, bribes law enforcement, makes drugs readily available to children, fills our jails to overflowing,costs billions per year, and a host of other problems. To learn more, go to "LEAP.cc. on the web.

George, wake up.

George, how can you disagree with this quote. this is exactly right and well said.

This gateway notion is nonsense. Well, maybe it's a gateway drug to tobacco, a far worse habit. Let people decide what they take into their bodies.

The purpose of education should be to teach students to think for themselves and to question everything.

Agree, agree.

E Archer and anonymous are correct.

Obama is setting a weak example for the rest of the world. He hates this country and wants to pull it down to third world status.

"Over seas and at "home", we are fouling up both.

And don't worry, when they get "all" the guns,criminals will still have them.

Too many people think that government is their parent. A great quote from L. Neal Smith is as follows. "Government is a disease masquerading as it.s own cure."

This quote is great, right on target.

Walter Williams is dead on as he usually is. Anonymous never disappoints, always spouting the party line.

Sums it up in one sentence.

Mike, you got it right.

Christian is a sort of generic term. If we argue a point or discuss it, we need to define our terms. The word christian means different things to different people.

A good motto for a state that gives us Barney Frank, John Kerry and a host of ultra left people.

I agree with Mary-Mi on this subject.