One way to sum up the situation.......humanity pays for Corbett's $835,000 donation with the loss of 500 jobs. One execrable villain gets his way, 500 hard working citizens get their lives ruined. Smells Republican to me!

Next time police are told to TARGET an OWS site maybe they should think about Corbett's budget TARGET first.

I don't think logic is going to help in choosing between Gingrich, Romney, and Paul.

Its all up to voters using logic this time Reading checking facts Not falling for the lies, smears, ugly rumors , ugly / false campaign ads that will hammer us till Nov 2012

FYI The ones who have profiited most are Corp Multi Nationals / Wall St not from Obama's skant 3 yrs It goes way back to wealth favoring policies of Reaganomics Bush whjich tanked US waged..sent jobs oberseas w/ big tax cuts .CLinton's 'sin ' ? NAFTA and Glas Steagal.. He Caved to Wall St 's Greenspan pushing.US has lived under Reagan Bush GOP deregulation policies from 1981 to prsent . Reagan gave amnesty w/ open borders for illegal slave wages, Reagan Bush Gave huge unfunded corp cuts, loopholes, huge subsides. That put us o n the slow path to disaster Global Crash TARP scam in the trillions NOT billions as we were told It will all come out in time The true JFK / Cuba / 1963 assasination story took 50 yrs LBJ's / Nam took even longer .Fact ..Mitt is getting 4 X more cash from Wall St than Obama. Ron Paul is most honest running as a Repub..but has some far flung views His Best advice.? .ending all wars and cutting foreign aid drastically. Only ones who benefited are the war profiteers - Bush oil family, Cheney Likes Of Rove , Dick Armey, Fox .Who hit the big jackpot ? Cheneys Halliburton- Black water, weapons & plane manufacturers- war contractors .. War is big big business Iraq is done Next Afghan war must end much sooner Iraq was a huge gift to AL quada / bin laden Wasted lives and trillions Just think what good that could have done If only Gore had been Pres Not W

There's more than one way >>>> <<<< to balance the budget. You can place more cash at the disposal of the consumer and balance the budget through commerce or you can plunder jobs, and the commerce that arises there of, in order to balance the budget.

The former gathers momentum through commerce the latter proceeds from one short fall in the budget to the next as jobs decrease and cost of living out paces salary for the employed.

Rocket science ?

Marijuana certainly has side effects, as many other kinds of medication: I knew quite some guys who were chaotic, forgetful, unreliable and their way organizing musical projects really scared me off. But nobody of them was "crazy"/ "insane". They were actually reasonable, nice people I liked to talk to. Once I played in a blues band were I was the only one who didn't smoke that stuff. I liked those guys, but I couldn't take that kinda chaos very long.

There are greater dramas in the world than people smoking pot. Smoking cigarettes is crazy anyway -- dangerous as SMS-ing while driving your car. Before we shoot pot smokers, those drivers should rather face a firing squad, for they risk other people's lives (I say "rather" -- I'm against death penalty!).

Drug abuse is the normal headache pill as well. One shouldn't be so squeamish and take pills because the head's spitting on a harmless regular basis. Smoking pot is nothing else than THIS kinda drug abuse: misuse of medication. Both isn't good for health.

Rightwingers like Gingrich hate marijuana, because it's something that belonged to left culture for decades. They hate "communism", "homosexuality", "marijuana", ect./ ect. .... I'd like to know what kinda drugs he has been using, cuz he's so screwy himself.... mentally disorganized....

I'm not on a mission, or crusade against pot. But if anybody would ask me for advice, I'd answer, he/she shouldn't smoke it. Not smoke anything at all.... and if I may add this too: eat no meat, because it's cannibalizing the neighbor.

Cancer patients most certainly need marijuana. The side effects of chemotherapy are much more severe, as anybody knows.

Thom, you said that Obama has had 14 months of continuous job growth. But its actually now 21 months.

Obama: US has created jobs in private sector 21 months running -

US president Barack Obama says his most pressing priority is to get the US economy growing faster, after the US Department of Labor announced unemployment in America had fallen to 8.6% in November, its lowest level since March 2009. He also urged Congress to extend its payroll tax cut past the 31 December deadline

I can hardly stand to listen to these people anymore and the stupid remarks they make. Where has all the common sense in politics gone. I guess they have to continually campaign all the time and they do not have enough time or sense to think about running this county and helping people. It is enough to make me light up and get high and bang on the drum all day!

When someone gives an exact percentage for the increase of the size of government, you have to ask how they measure the size of government. Is it the amount of money spent, the amount of money collected in taxes, the number of people it employs...? Is the military included (Bill O'Reilly apparently doesn't think so)?

Hi Tom love your show gig rich like his name imply s is totally for the rich @ what ever crumbs they throw his way.I think he smokes @ god know what else up in his ivory tower probably has women up there too.He is a total loose cannon whose main philosophy is DO HAS I SAY NOT HAS I DO. Smoking pot will make you FAT gig rich will not make the cover of gentleman's quarterly.

Boss Unrepentant Newt Hypocrite Gangrene has always been one who could top any diabolical thought any other right winger could come with give him a few days he will do a lot worse.

Newt had better start with high up CIA and congressional leaders then go after the banksters and corporate leaders who have laundered the drug money...I had read many years ago that if they ever made drugs legal..taking the profit out of them...our economic system would collapse...indicating just how reliant our corrupt system has been on drug smuggling. And, I'd bet, that if you looked more deeply into Newt's history you might find some connections as well.

Vietnam

"Air America allegedly transported opium and heroin on behalf of Hmong leader Vang Pao. This allegation has been supported by former Laos CIA paramilitary Anthony Poshepny (aka Tony Poe), former Air America pilots, and other people involved in the war."

I've even read that at one time they, the CIA, was smuggling drugs into the US from Vietnam and Laos in body bags....and even inside bodies.

Afghanistan during Soviet Occupation

".. [t]he CIA did not handle heroin, but it did provide its drug-lord allies with transport, arms, and political protection. In sum, the CIA's role in the Southeast Asian heroin trade involved indirect complicity rather than direct culpability."

Mexico

"The Guadalajara Cartel, Mexico's most powerful drug-trafficking network in the early 1980s, prospered largely because it enjoyed the protection of the DFS, under its chief Miguel Nassar (or Nazar) Haro, a CIA asset."

Iran Contra Affair

"Released on April 13, 1989, the Kerry Committee report concluded that members of the U.S. State Department "who provided support for the Contras were involved in drug trafficking... and elements of the Contras themselves knowingly received financial and material assistance from drug traffickers."

"In 1996 Gary Webb wrote a series of articles published in the San Jose Mercury News, which investigated Nicaraguans linked to the CIA-backed Contras who had smuggled cocaine into the U.S. which was then distributed as crack cocaine into Los Angeles and funneled profits to the Contras. The CIA was aware of the cocaine transactions and the large shipments of drugs into the U.S. by the Contra personnel and directly aided drug dealers to raise money for the Contras."
Most of the main stream media ostracized The Mercury News, Gary Webb's employer, for having written the series of exposes.
Gary Webb wound up dead in what is claimed to be a suicide...yeah, right!

Venezuela

"The CIA - in spite of objections from the Drug Enforcement Administration, allowed at least one ton of nearly pure cocaine to be shipped into Miami International Airport. The CIA claimed to have done this as a way of gathering information about Colombian drug cartels. But the cocaine ended up being sold on the street."

"In November 1996 a Miami jury indicted former Venezuelan anti-narcotics chief and longtime CIA asset, General Ramon Guillen Davila, who was smuggling many tons of cocaine into the United States from a Venezuelan warehouse owned by the CIA. In his trial defense, Guillen claimed that all of his drug smuggling operations were approved by the CIA."

Haiti

"...in the mid 1980s, the CIA created a unit in Haiti, whose purported purpose was anti-drug activity, but was in reality "used as an instrument of political terror", and was heavily involved in drug trafficking. The members of the unit were known to torture supporters of Jean-Bertrand Aristide, and threatened to kill the local head of the DEA. According to one U.S. official, the unit was trafficking drugs and never produced any useful drug intelligence."

Panama

"...the U.S.—which, in exchange [for Noriega giving military assistance to Contra Groups in Nicaragua], allowed him [Noriega] to continue his drug-trafficking activities—which they had known about since the 1960s.[13][14] When the DEA tried to indict Noriega in 1971, the CIA prevented them from doing so.[13] The CIA, which was then directed by future president George H. W. Bush, provided Noriega with hundreds of thousands of dollars per year as payment for his work in Latin America."

Quotes from Wikipedia

And this is all "ancient history"...I wonder what we will find out about what we have been doing over in US occupied Afghanistan and Iraq....maybe Julian Assange knows!