In the West we have a creed called "Ride for the Brand?|". It means being loyal. When you work on a ranch (the brand) you do what the boss wants and publicly and private support what the boss wants done. You don't like what the boss wants and does, you ride out the front gate and go to work someplace else (ride for another brand).

Dissent in Corporate America works the same way.

When you disagree with your company's management you do it before the decision is made i.e. while the decision is being contemplated. You input into the decision publicly or behind closed doors according to the culture of your company.

If the decision goes against your interests, you have two choices. Either quit and go work some other place else or stay and publicly and privately support the decision.

Same goes for the country you live in. You make your inputs as the decision is being formed up. You lose you shutup and support the decision or you leave the country. To do otherwise, especially when the country is at war, is treason, it is not patriotic.

Compare the timeline of multiple months it took Iraq to write and adopt a constitution to the United States.

The US revolution started 1775, the Constitution without Bill of Rights was adopted 13 years later. It was not unitl 1791 that the Bill of Rights was adopted.

Time to modify who can vote. You have to pay state taxes to vote in state elections. You have to pay federal income taxes to vote in federal elections. In the current mode, there are more potential non-tax paying citizens who can vote to confiscate more from those who do pay taxes.

The ancient Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu said, "The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be."

With that as a given, every other year, law passing bodies should spend the entire legislating session reviewing and unpassing laws.

All laws should be written using readability software, none written beyond level 10.  I'm tired of lawyers writing the law, so only a lawyer can figure out what is being said.  As for a I am concern, lawyers running for law making bodies is a conflict of interest and should be "outlawed".  If not outlawed they should have to surrender their law licenses to never be allowed to practice after they leave public office.

I have seen this kind of double dealing with the National Electrical Code.  People get on the commitees to write elements of the Code, then after the Code is updated, they hire themselves out as Consultants to help people interpret the Code they themselves wrote.  Unethical, conflict of interest.

Time to exit the United Nations and form a new world body. One made up of only democracies, i.e. United States, England, Australia, Israel, Taiwan, Japan, India

You are a democracy or you don't belong.

Democrats vs War on Terrorist - putting a wolf skin on a sheep doesn't make it a wolf

Minnesota Muslim taxi cab drivers honor their licenses and carry one and all who come to them for service, or have their licenses revoked.  There is no compromise.

Analysis of when one should negotiate the Palestinian Authority.

(1) the bottom-line position of both ruling Hamas and opposition Fatah in the Palestinian Authority is the destruction of Israel and explusion of the Jews;

(2) this is clearly unacceptable to Israel and to the United States;

(3) therefore, negotiations between Israel and the PA, or between the United States and the PA, are utterly pointless and should be broken off NOW!

(not my words, but verbalized concisely where we should be)

Osama was right, the Democrats don't have the will to win the war against terrorist

Our treatment of religions from other countries (Islam) MUST BE the same as our religions are treated (Christians and Jews) in their countries

i.e. they don't allow our religions to build religious facilities in their countries, we respond in kind, they treat Christians and Jews as second class citizens, we do the same.

When Muslim countries discriminate against Jews and Christians and force them from their countries, we do the same with Muslims in our country

There is a reason that the political debate has become more shrill. It is not due to the two worlds John Edwards talked about during the 2004 Presidential Election. It is the Republicans world of less government, low taxes and a strong military. Versus the Democrats finally behaving like the socialists they really are: bigger government, punishing taxes and a non-existent military.  There is NO COMPROMISE between these two positions.

I don't believe this

A touchie feelie was asked about abandoning Iraq to thugs and terrorist, response: "we have to bring our soldiers home".  When explained that we would be fighting terrorist here instead of Iraq, her response, "well, at least they would be here with their families".

Masked Muslim murderers who tie people up and cut throats and behead them, are gutless wonders, PIGS works i.e. Pathetic Islamic Gutless Scumbags

Hide in mosques

Hide in hospitals

Hide behind women and children

Blow up people in pizza parlors

Blow up people in hotel ballrooms

Blow up people in restaurants

Wear bags and masks to hide their faces

Place explosives in dead bodies to kill their relatives when they come to pick up their family member

Suicide bomb people who have no idea they are targets

It is good that we recognize them for what they are and expeditiously arrange their meeting with Allah