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It is a strange idea that our disaster in Vietnam was the impetus for the decline of Communism. The fact is that people were starting to realize that Communism doesn't work very well, and they didn't need the U.S. dropping napalm on Vietnamese to convince them of that. We did manage to make...

Here in the real world, when I have a budget problem, I invariably find that my biggest expense, utterly dwarfing all others, is taxes. Which I can't do a damn thing about. My salary hasn't gone up in years and other people are outright losing their jobs, but public union employees must be...

The Communists took over South Vietnam, renaming Saigon Ho Chi Minh City, and are in power today. It is telling that you define "victory" solely by the number of people we slaughter.

Projections of deficits are always wildly over optimistic so I assume this means we'll actually get an additional $10 trillion in debt over the next ten years.

Is this yet another alias for thehitman = american hero = Jake Jones?

Thanks for the information. I never realized that we won the Vietnam War. I never realized that the Iraq War was a victory, rather than a complete botch, leading to a state of anarchy worse than the rule of Sadaam Hussein.

When you can demonstrate to me that China is suffering from a serious labor shortage you might convince me that factories should be employing children. Also, China has public schools that don't charge tuition. So yes, children in China do go to school, when they're not working in a factory.

If Troll in Chief thehitman loves our wars, why isn't he in Iraq or Afghanistan helping to fight those wars?

Ah yes, the excuse made by advocates of child factory labor everywhere. What would the children be doing if they weren't working at the factory? Going to school. Child labor ended in this country only when congress made it illegal. Prior to that, you heard the same old excuses about how...

Actually "niggardly" has no etymological connection to "nigger", the latter being a corruption of the Spanish word for "black" and the former being of Scandinavian origin. But Americans are far more politically correct than literate, so are easily alarmed and horrified by one man calling...

Is there anybody left who doubts that this guy is 100% pure troll?

The one silver lining were the increases in the Alcoholic Beverage Tax and Cigarette Tax. So the solution to California's woes is obvious -- encourage alcoholism and smoking.

Prohibition was not an entitlement program. Once people get "free money" from the government it is political death to take it away from them.

Such "people" as the U.S. government. Which is why we're guaranteed to get plenty of inflation.

I do not understand why any thinking person, liberal or conservative, would waste 10 seconds on the writings of Ann Coulter.

+10 When the only mainstream "conservative" alternative to the standard liberal pablum on ABC, CBS, CNN, and (worst of all) MSNBC is the arch neocon Faux News, you can understand why I have to get my news from the Financial Times, Russia Today, and Al Jazeera.

If I were doing an "anti-Obama" false flag operation I'd definitely have an NRA sticker and maybe a Confederate flag decal just to make it look convincing.

I don't have a dog in this hunt. All I know for sure is that I don't have the cojones to sell naked calls on AAPL.

That one is so low that I wouldn't be surprised if it's actually a "false flag" bumper sticker by an Obama supporter. (Make the Obama opponents look real bad.)

While we've seen plenty of recent proof that presidents can be worse than Bill Clinton, stop giving Clinton credit for the tech boom, which he had nothing to do with. Presidents don't create jobs. And stop promoting the myth that he balanced the budget, unless you have an explanation for why a...