Communism - the politics of envy.

Now what is the solution???? Since we know that envy is one of the devil's chief destroyers, Then what?????

I John "...For this purpose the Son of God was manifest, that HE might destroy the works of the devil" So Communism is a target of the Righteous God, it is His Will to "destroy the works of the devil".

In a "righteous cause", you can expect the Lord's help.

"Who is on the Lord's Side"

Not for weight of glory, not for crown and palm,

But enter We the army, raise the WARRIOR Psalm (Psalm 91).....READ IT

Thou hast made us willing, Thou hast made us FREE.

We are on the Lord's side (America)

Saviour, we are Thine.

For God & Country

Ruth Ann Wilson

Congressmen are no longer public servants, they are public masters. And the more power they gain, the more tyrannical and abusive they become. (see Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Barney Frank, Chris Dodd)

We must curtail their power by peaceful means before it is too late. We should not wake up one day and wonder, what happened? We chose to stay idly by and not participate in the political process because it is just politics and so corrupt anyway, why bother. You are part of the problem if you stay home on voting or rally day - you lose the right to complain and your freedoms when things go terribly wrong.

I am reading "1984" for the second time. The first time was required reading in high school over 25 years ago. I am amazed at how much relevance a work like 1984 can take on when someone has experience in the world. The similarities between this work of fiction and what is going on the world is striking. Mr. Sowell's commentary is timely and reminiscent of 1984, in that he exposes well the career politician's intent of using hate and deception to control. In no way is it their object to unite this great country. Keeping people together in a group, yet divided and angry based on their beliefs keeps the group weak and controllable.

if in general, everybody wants the same basic things, which can be demonstrated when they go into the privacy of their homes, i.e. to live decently, to be a part of a good society, to raise their family as comfortably as possible, etc, then what is the dividing factor?

As Ben Franklin so aptly put it, "Here comes the orator, with his flood of words and his drop of reason!".

Hats off to Mr. Sowell for his flood of reason in his drop of words.

"Public servant is semantically equal to public master" -- Robert Heinlein

I read Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" more than 20 years ago, and thought how remarkable it was that some of what she wrote about decades earlier was now coming to pass. I re-read it again last year. It was stunning, shocking, terrifying to see how prescient her novel turned out to be. Virtually every government blunder depicted in that story is taking place today at a pace so accelerated that nobody 2 years ago would have believed it could happen.

How did we get to a point where the government is telling private companies how much they're allowed to pay their employees? Where the government owns two of the largest companies on Earth? Where people think a depiction of Green Police arresting citizens for using hot water is amusing? Where people militate for government control over our health? Where politicians are caught red-handed lying to us and we feel it's just par for the course, instead of outraged? Where the news media routinely lies to us and when we catch them they call *us* names?

I could go on. Ileana is right. We must take back this country now, while it's still possible to do so peacefully. It must be done, one way or another. Or we will watch this country decline into the mockery of prosperity that are Greece and other European nations today.

We didn't get into this mess because the American people worked too hard. We got into it because we elected leaders who promised us anything we wanted to hear, and then hid the costs. I'm sorry but that's evil.

How did we get into this recession? Government required lenders to give mortgages to people who couldn't possibly repay them. So the banks repackaged the loans and sold them on the market as government-backed paper. When the bottom fell out, the same government hacks who created the mess refused to learn from the mistakes. Barney Frank, Chairman of the House Banking Committee, proposes not a return to fiscal sanity but an EXPANSION of the very policies that caused the recession! Their solution for widespread FAIL is.... EPIC FAIL!

The next two elections -- 2010 and 2012 -- may be the most critical in American history since the 1860 race. We hold our destinies in our own hands. We can decide the fate of this country, whether we will return to the policies of fiscal sanity with centuries of proven success behind them, or continue living in the Leftist fantasy land that has brought us nothing but failure and misery.

The United States of America is the greatest accomplishment of Man. Will we allow it to be flushed down a toilet by a crowd of radicals and spoiled whiners? Or will we take our country back from those who would dismantle it? Do we fight for our children's future, or do we turn on American Idol and pretend it's all a bad dream?

Aye, but there's the rub: politicians are experts at telling us what we want to hear, then doing just the opposite once in power. Any politician worth his salt will be crying "fiscal responsibility" from the top of the mountain, but what's to keep him on the straight and narrow once he's elected? We need tort reform, we need campaign finance reform, and most of all, we need to get rid of the lobbyists. We have the best politicians money can buy. What we need are politicians for whom money is not as important as leadership. Real leaders are not afraid to take chances. Real leaders cannot be bought at any price. Real leaders are not afraid to speak the truth. Most of all, real leaders are not afraid to lead. Where are our leaders?

I've said before, and I'll say again with all sincerity, it would surely make my day if Brian would run for Congress in his district. Ileana too. America needs men and women with exactly that attitude.

Ruth Ann Wilson, MichaelSSEC, and Brian: I will support you 100% in a run for office in your districts - we need real, honest, Christian, and patriotic Americans like you in office.

Sorry y'all, I'd never survive as a politician. I'm uncorruptable.

We used to read your column in the "Lancaster New Era" and loved it! We now live in Cumberland, MD and do not get to see or read your material. What can we do to encourage "The Cumberland Times-News" to publish your articles?

Last night I turned on the movie 1984 to fall asleep to. It turned out I couldn't stop watching it. The concentrating of the masses minds on far away enemies, the insistance that 4 can in fact be 5 if the state wills it so, and subservience of the individual to the state reminded me so much of the truly disturbing direction in which this country is headed. Keep up the goof fight Mr. Sowell. It's nice to be reassured that 2+2 still equals 4. You have me respect.

Well there's only one liberal thing I stand for and that's cagpaimn finance reform. Limit the amount a candidate can raise to an amount that's reasonable like 50 million instead of the 700 million obama got. The Constitution was made to restrain the size of government and that's what this does. Also I think we should have a law saying there is to be no more parties so bad bills passed only do to pressure by parties is eliminated.