Actually, the Constitution does not contain anything about a right to vote.

Article I Section 4 :The time places and manner of holding election for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each Stat by the Legislature thereof; but Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such regulations except as to the places of choosing Senators.

(The part about Senators was changed by 17th Amendment)

The individual States or Congress can set the election rules to any damn thing they want. In the time of the Founders voting was restricted to property owners, taxpayers, men, whites, and the literate. Poll taxes and literacy tests were also common long before the Civil War and the coming of Jim Crow.

Congress has amended the Constitution to outlaw denying the vote because of race; but there is nothing guaranteeing the 'right' to vote in the first place.

I would be in favor of restricting the vote to those who actually pay taxes. If you don't pay any taxes or you get a 'refundable' tax credit, you have no skin in the game. You're going to be most interested in keeping that money flowing. Money that first has to be taken from the people who DO pay taxes.

Of course, its been the goal of the Democrat Party to get as many people as possible to get a government check so they can claim that the Republicans are going to take it away. Vote buying using public funds.

That bond is to ensure that he shows up for his arraignment. The arraignment is where the charges are filed by the DA and it is determined whether there exists probable cause to bind him over for trial. Then he is either released on bond or personal recognizence or sent back to jail to await trial.

The bond is returned, minus fees, when he shows up.

Obama hasn't said anything because he doesn't like Persian people.

Don't let the economists and government flacks kid you. Government hiring does very little for the economy. The only real metric of recovery is the Private Sector employment increases, and there haven't been any.

They are doing nothing to spur a recovery.

When I saw R. :ee Ermy's performance in "Full Metal Jacket" It transported me back to by Basic Training at Ft Lewis in the winter of 1967- 68.

When we reported in we were harried out of the cattle car and into some semblance of a formation.We had been driven around for 45 minutes so we wouldn't know where we were and were apprehensive and disoriented.

The first thing out of the Drill Sergeant's mouth was "The Army says that we can't call you motherf**kers motherf**kers anymore!" It was said in the same manner and cadance as R. Lee used in the movie. My experience was almost exactly concurrent with the films setting and, other than a couple of plot devices, (No way would they have allowed us to have weapons in the barracks and the Drill Sergeants only slept in for the first week) it was exactly like that. I had my sphincter clenched during the entire barracks scene.

I ended up spending the next 21 years in the Army and found out that the Drill Sergeant's role is 90% acting. The whole idea is to keep the stress level high and see who rises to the standards and who cracks up. In 1967, of course, no one was allowed to wash out. Maybe the USMC was different, but according to friends who were in The Crotch, not so much.

Sam's real-life counterpart is Adam "The American (Adam Yahiye Gadahn), the American who is spokesman for al-Qaeda.

Does that put things in better perspective?

The cover in the movie is that the villain is a "corporation" as if that is some kind of alien life form. A corporation is just a group of people banded together for a common purpose. GE is a corporation; so is Moveon.org; Americans Coming Together, The Sierra Club and your local charity.

So in Avatar you are rooting for Adam "The American" who turns against a bunch of people who banded together to try to save their world, at the expense of a tree on another world?

Isn't this re subbing of Downfall getting just a tad lame?

bin Laden has always parroted the left's talking points. I guess he subscribes to the NYT and watches CNN International.

Their goals are kind of the same; control over what everybody thinks, does or eats. Strict adherence to the tenets of their particular religion. So it's not too surprising.

Just wait. In a few years liberals will realize that those Haitian orphans adopted by white parents are being robbed of their 'heritage'. They will then try to force these children to be given to some poor Haitian refugees that are subsisting on handouts.

The primary thing I have noticed is that every one of these disclosures casts an unflattering light on the people that might be running against Barak Obama in the 2012 election.

There doesn't seem to be any of the same disclosures about the Obama campaign.

But I'm sure that Obama's amazing abilities let him run a campaign with no gaffes or embarrassing statements.