en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/725943 Comments by TexExpatriate http://bigjournalism.com/bschaeffer/2012/02/08/are-liberals-smarter-and-nicer-just-ask-academia/#IDComment288196024 One of those things I was forced to learn about in graduate school on the way to a doctorate was statistics, and about the only things I remember from that are these: It is quite easy to manipulate a survey, on the one hand, and on the other, most surveys are meaningless because of it. One of the things I learned taking psychology courses in graduate school was that pyschology is mostly baloney, posing as science. Devout Masters and Doctors of Psychology will argue endlessly about how important their "discipline" is, but it's all whistling past the graveyard. They'll spend hours testing a person to arrive at an "informed" opinion about unwanted behavior a person wants to change, while a good psychotherapist will bring about a change in that behavior in a few sessions, sometimes only after one session. How crazy can things get? Here's how. In Indiana, for example, only a Medical Doctor or Doctor of Psychology can become a health provider of psycholgoical services, and regardless of how incompetent or poorly trained they may be, better trained people still must be supervised by them. Are liberals smarter and nicer? No, but they are convinced that they are. Thu, 9 Feb 2012 20:11:42 +0000 http://bigjournalism.com/bschaeffer/2012/02/08/are-liberals-smarter-and-nicer-just-ask-academia/#IDComment288196024 http://bigpeace.com/dreaboi/2012/02/09/exclusive-obama-reads-book-author-corrects-presidents-reading-comprehension/#IDComment288158951 What do you mean, author: "The US is not in decline now, but the wrong policies can take us there." Utter nonsense. Democrats have been taking America down for at least ten years---eleven if you count the third year of Obama's term. Yes, even under George Bush, who governed like a Kennedy Democrat. Look around, people. Nearly everyone in positions of power---from the media, through the Democrat Party and RINOs in the Republican Party, through Unions and the heads of America's largest corporations---are pushing America toward socialism or merchantilism as fast as they can. Genuine Americans haven't got fed up sufficiently to push their states toward secession or to take up arms---yet. Thu, 9 Feb 2012 19:15:22 +0000 http://bigpeace.com/dreaboi/2012/02/09/exclusive-obama-reads-book-author-corrects-presidents-reading-comprehension/#IDComment288158951 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.956cc047c755305c8ad4580183554bcc.941&show_article=1#IDComment286483910 More and more young officers are telling the truth about Afghanistan and Iraq, and to what purpose? As long as a traitor who hates America occasionally occupies the White House (on those rare occasions when he shows up at all) and has filled it with American-hating Marxists, and as long as the Democrat Party consists almost entirely of Marxists and Fascists, and as long as America's highest serving military officers are devoted to serving any so-called commander, nothing will change. Think it will change if America replaces the Marxist with Romney, a Republican squish? If you do you live in the same dreamland as Democrats. Since somewhere like 20 % of the electorate are Marxist idealogues, and another 29 % are Useful Idiots/Independents, America cannot move in the direction of a Constitution-abiding nation without some major disruption: a secession of about half the states, a nuke attack on the U.S. coinciding with the election of an American patriot (i.e., an American conservative), or a sudden miracle from above in which all the voting idiots in America suddenly awaken and become patriotic instead of traitorous. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 20:38:46 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.956cc047c755305c8ad4580183554bcc.941&show_article=1#IDComment286483910 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/lveneziani/2012/01/29/one-for-the-money-review-heigls-grating-jersey-girl-no-feminist-role-model/#IDComment278651006 I don't know who plays the role of Snooki, or even what the show is about, but why would the producer cast a porker in that role? Are there that many porkers out there who will identify with her? Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:05:04 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/lveneziani/2012/01/29/one-for-the-money-review-heigls-grating-jersey-girl-no-feminist-role-model/#IDComment278651006 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.218bcf7fdf123da81f848acd32746026.c81&show_article=1#IDComment278629269 A European Depression and currency collapse coupled with the election of a conservative American President and Congress would go a long ways toward stabilizing America. Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:34:13 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.218bcf7fdf123da81f848acd32746026.c81&show_article=1#IDComment278629269 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.218bcf7fdf123da81f848acd32746026.6e1&show_article=1#IDComment278621425 It's interesting, ain't it, how those socialists whose economic philosophy have caused a global depression (/recession) now want to protest the system that created wealth on the planet. How finely honed those socialist minds must be! Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:23:37 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.218bcf7fdf123da81f848acd32746026.6e1&show_article=1#IDComment278621425 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.bdd9291aba1c3717ec089a4af604250a.3b1&show_article=1#IDComment271427233 Miss Dekker is showing the old American Spirit! What a shame that so many Americans lack that these days. Well, it's been draining out of America since Abraham Lincoln launched the War of Northern Aggression for statist, then called Unionism. Sun, 22 Jan 2012 19:14:59 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.bdd9291aba1c3717ec089a4af604250a.3b1&show_article=1#IDComment271427233 http://www.shotgunnews.com/2012/01/12/gundoms-dumbest-axiom/#IDComment265239484 Put me down as agreeing with Whelen. I wouldn't give you two-bits for an inaccurate gun, unless I knew someone who could fix it. I don't have the savvy to fis itmyself. Sun, 15 Jan 2012 20:34:25 +0000 http://www.shotgunnews.com/2012/01/12/gundoms-dumbest-axiom/#IDComment265239484 http://biggovernment.com/bhealy/2012/01/11/breaking-huge-error-rate-in-same-day-election-registrations-found/#IDComment261675340 Same day registration and open primaries result in---and are intended to result in---voter fraud. It's a Democrat Party specialty, but many Republicans in states such as Wisconsin and New Hampshire (and Iowa, where they use caucuses) have swallowed the Democrat poison pill and open their political processes to fraud in the name of making the vote more accessible to citizens. It's interesting to note that Republicans rarely vote across party lines but that Democrats do it often---as regularly as they use the cemeteries to increase their vote. Wed, 11 Jan 2012 21:49:04 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/bhealy/2012/01/11/breaking-huge-error-rate-in-same-day-election-registrations-found/#IDComment261675340 http://biggovernment.com/driehl/2012/01/11/obamas-daley-blunder/#IDComment261669244 Correction: When I wrote the author works for the Washington Post I was thinking of Jena McGregor, not the author Dan Riehl. Mea Culpa. Wed, 11 Jan 2012 21:38:38 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/driehl/2012/01/11/obamas-daley-blunder/#IDComment261669244 http://biggovernment.com/driehl/2012/01/11/obamas-daley-blunder/#IDComment261667568 The author is full of it. There is no "moderate wing" of the Democrat Party. There are old-time Democrats who haven't endorsed the modern party's marxism (was that what Daley was?), Useful Idiots (or that?), and Marxists and Fascists. Obama and Holder and Wassermann-Schultz, for example, are Marxists; Pelosi and Reid, are examples of Fascists. The full-of-it author works for the Washington Post, according to the credit above. When did a Post writer ever get anything right? Wed, 11 Jan 2012 21:35:48 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/driehl/2012/01/11/obamas-daley-blunder/#IDComment261667568 http://biggovernment.com/whall/2012/01/10/will-obamas-inexperienced-controversial-deputy-omb-director-heather-higginbottom-take-jack-lews-place/#IDComment260682971 Back when I was young, handsome, and sexually predacious, babe's like this were always easy. They'll believe anything and if you act like you understand and believe them, they'll do anything for you. Sad but true. She'll go far in any political administration filled with predators. Tue, 10 Jan 2012 19:57:12 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/whall/2012/01/10/will-obamas-inexperienced-controversial-deputy-omb-director-heather-higginbottom-take-jack-lews-place/#IDComment260682971 http://biggovernment.com/publius/2012/01/09/bill-daley-out-as-wh-chief-of-staff/#IDComment259804800 Daley was probably too much an ordinary crook and not enough a Marxist to "gel" in Obama's Marxist White House. Mon, 9 Jan 2012 21:18:50 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/publius/2012/01/09/bill-daley-out-as-wh-chief-of-staff/#IDComment259804800 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9S34TRO0&show_article=1#IDComment257245797 Shame on Gamboa of the AP (Anti-America Press). The title of her piece of propaganda, "Gingrich to Black People," was wrong. It shoud have been, "Ginrch to People on the Dole," most of whom are white. What a jackass! Sat, 7 Jan 2012 01:00:15 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9S34TRO0&show_article=1#IDComment257245797 http://biggovernment.com/publius/2012/01/06/right-to-work-law-advances-in-indiana-house-dems-again-no-shows/#IDComment257243764 Part Two: The really sad thing is the Republican majority leader (who says he is a conservative) could stop this by fining these creeplings $1,000 a day for sitting in their caucus room and not attending to business, but he won't do it. So there's a question about this guy's integrity. His name is Brian Bosma, a Conservative poseur. The willow-spined Indiana governor, Mitch Danels, won't act to stop this behavior either. Thank goodness Daniels did not run for President. I have watched Indiana politics since 1958. The way it works is, Democrats get elected, drive the state into bankruptcy, and Republicans get elected and resurrect the state. Then it happens all over again. Sat, 7 Jan 2012 00:56:39 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/publius/2012/01/06/right-to-work-law-advances-in-indiana-house-dems-again-no-shows/#IDComment257243764 http://biggovernment.com/publius/2012/01/06/right-to-work-law-advances-in-indiana-house-dems-again-no-shows/#IDComment257243368 I'm a Texan living reluctantly in Indiana. I came here fifty years ago to earn a BA degree, after which I went home---back to the southwest to start some businesses and earn a couple of more degrees. I came back in 2003. Indiana's elected Democrats are entirely under the thumb of Indiana's Unions (anyone remember Evan Bayh?). These spineless beings can't get elected in their up-north and Indy districts unless they kiss union and a certain type of racial butt. They are led by a totally corrupt old fool from South Bend, a man who has always been in thrall to unions, a man named Pat Bauer. Many of us think he may be senile, but he is still under the Union thumb and leader of Democrats. Sat, 7 Jan 2012 00:55:56 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/publius/2012/01/06/right-to-work-law-advances-in-indiana-house-dems-again-no-shows/#IDComment257243368 http://biggovernment.com/jbradley/2012/01/06/finally-a-word-on-santorum-and-his-earmark-legacy/#IDComment257231914 Wise up author and commentators. At that time earmarks were the order of the day. Everyone did it, including nearly all conservatives. You-all need to start looking at what is ahead of you, not what was behind you. The important thing in this upcoming election is to retire Barack Obama and all his Marxist and Black-liberationist idiots in government. The most conservative of remaining Republican candidates is Santorum (it's why Pennsylvanians voted him out, his conservatism), followed by Gingrich. Romney, for all his lying talk about conservatism, supported Democrats most of his life. Sat, 7 Jan 2012 00:35:57 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/jbradley/2012/01/06/finally-a-word-on-santorum-and-his-earmark-legacy/#IDComment257231914 http://biggovernment.com/publius/2011/12/27/moderate-dem-ben-nelson-will-retire-from-senate/#IDComment248796262 Nelson's inner polling had to say he could not be re-elected. Does anyone remember that his constituents booed him and his wife in a Nebraska Pizza Parlor when they entered to eat? Tue, 27 Dec 2011 21:54:34 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/publius/2011/12/27/moderate-dem-ben-nelson-will-retire-from-senate/#IDComment248796262 http://tv.breitbart.com/tsa-agent-confiscates-cupcake/#IDComment248794865 That would mean getting rid of the TSA, which itself is unconstitutional. Tue, 27 Dec 2011 21:51:34 +0000 http://tv.breitbart.com/tsa-agent-confiscates-cupcake/#IDComment248794865 http://biggovernment.com/jcadams/2011/12/11/holder-plans-major-announcement-on-voting-laws-tuesday-patriots-plan-counter-rally/#IDComment236496643 If I could get home I would be there. Likely my son will attend, if he can leave his medical practice. However, I do not believe that any outpouring of people can make a dent in Holder's intentions. Obama appointed him because he is a black racist, and black racist he will remain despite all. Mon, 12 Dec 2011 17:51:18 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/jcadams/2011/12/11/holder-plans-major-announcement-on-voting-laws-tuesday-patriots-plan-counter-rally/#IDComment236496643