How can anyone fairly evaluate Obama with Catholic bishops holding him on this high of a pedestal. News flash. Obama is a human, and a politician. He is not a hero, he is not a myth, and he certainly is not the Savior.

The man was convicted of several (57) tax and real estate fraud related charges. The main “fraud” he orchestrated was paying his and his clients’ wages in gold and silver coins, and reported them at their face value, not at their market value.

Why, exactly, do we print values on gold and silver coins if we cannot use those values, even with the government that mints the coins?

Better yet, especially if we are going to print dollar values on gold and silver, is our currency’s value in no way tied to those commodities? Thank you Mr. Kahre for bringing this issue to light.

Montana is trying to assert that federal gun control laws are only valid where they pertain to interstate trade. If successful, Montanans will be able to ignore federal laws about registration, licensing, etc. when buying a gun in Montana which was made in Montana, and will stay in Montana.

I’m very curious to see how this one turns out!

We spent the last 100 years fighting against totalitarian socialist and fascist nations. One key tool in these parties’ rise to total control was the use of propaganda. After both World Wars, and the Cold War, how can we support propagandizing our own population through a sector which is often praised for being independent from, and even critical of, the government?

By the way, does anyone know if they ever got any answers?

Although I think it’s a waste of time and taxpayer dollars, there are many fights to further separate church and state that I can live with. If someone is truly offended by public school prayer, or a Ten Commandments statue in a court, or even a Christmas tree in a city building, as ridiculous as I think they are, I understand their desire to fight these things.

On the other hand, a wooden cross built by veterans 75 years ago to honor their fallen comrades I think should stay. Not only is it a monument to the fallen veterans, but also to the dedication of the veterans who constructed it, to their country and their comrades. The ACLU needs to back off this one.

Eliminating private sources of financial aid and student loans? Who does that help? Oh yeah, and they snuck another czar into the unofficial cabinet Obama is building. A “Green Schools” Czar? Shouldn’t either Arne Duncan or whoever is in charge of the EPA be in charge of green-ing our schools?

And by the way, does anyone know how much these czars make, or where the money comes from??

In a “right to work” state (that means that Nevadans think you should be able to get a job regardless of Union membership), with an unemployment rate almost 5 percent above the national average, our County apparently thinks supporting unions is more important than supporting local businesses or the people they employ. Keep in mind that in the last two years, our state has lost 1/3 of its construction jobs. Not to mention that 80 percent of locally owned contractors are non-Union.

Oh well.

Obama may have barred lobbyists from working in his administration, but he certainly didn’t bar them from working on the administration.

Big Pharm cut a deal, and is now spending $150 million on advertising in support of health care reform, most of it through a firm which David Axelrod consults for, and his son works for. In return, Obama is continuing a policy from the reign of the “evil” Bush which essentially keeps America buying drugs at the prices set by pharmaceutical companies.

Great. Change we can believe in.