Why do people keep saying it's a Myth, but local state Senators say it isn't, that they see it right in their backyards.

The Republicans have long pandered to the religious right fundamentalists, and now some of them are getting bitten by their pet viper. They're being called upon to endorse bibilical literalism, to repudiate past moderate positions and to mark themselves as extremists to win their primaries. They have to endorse human rights and international law violations which make criminals of our officials, victims of innocents as well as terrorists, a pariah of our nation in the civilized world, and a recruiting sergeant of our military for the Salafists. They've gone to bed with the lunatic fringe and now they have to perform and satisfy their consorts.

The NAFTA Highway in question is no myth. It has been renamed the NASCO Corridor. Same purpose, different name. Their url: http://www.nascocorridor.com
Their byline is: "Tri-National Advocacy for Efficient, Secure and Environmentally Concious Trade & Transportation.
From their mission statement:
"As of late, there have been many media references to a "new, proposed NAFTA Superhighway.”
While NASCO and the cities, counties, states and provinces along our existing Interstate
Highways 35/29/94 (the NASCO Corridor) have referred for years to I-35 and key branches as
'the NAFTA Superhighway,' the reference solely acknowledged and recognized I-35’s major role
in carrying a remarkable portion of international trade with Mexico, the United States and
Canada. In actual fact, there are no plans to build “a new NAFTA Superhighway.” It already
exists today as I-35 and branches."

Please become a more informed person, your journalism skills will benefit greatly.

Wow, did Mitt stumble at the debate or what? Michael Eisenstadt wrote a great piece tonight about the lessons of Annapolis and puts the debate between Rudy vs. Mitt in that context. Pretty provocative stuff that points to Rudy as the obvious candidate for the GOP: http://michaeleisenstadt.com/2007/11/28/a-lesson-learned/

HDNet Dec 1 DNC debate (Sat 7:30pm ET).
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I thought Ron Paul did the best in the debate. I'm going to vote for him.

I wish they would have asked Mitt Romney a more direct question. "Do you believe every word in this book - The Bible. He answered YES, which probably pleased the traditional Christians and Evangelicals, but anyone raised in the LDS (Mormon) Church knows that they always, always qualify the answer by saying "provided it is translated or interpreted correctly" because Joseph Smith (their founder) had so many problems with the Bible that he was in the process of correcting it when he was killed. Not only, Mitt Romney knows well enough that the Bible is really secondary to the Book of Mormon and the D&C (another LDS doctrinal book). These books do NOT agree with the New Testament. If Mitt Romney truly believes the Bible is the word of God, than he must abandon many of his core LDS beliefs. We highlight all the fundamental differences in our articles on ExposeRomney.com. Romney utilizes a method taught to all Mormon missionaries; it's call giving "Milk before Meat," i.e. give people an answer that they will accept, even if it is not completely true or the full story. We have LDS video on our site of LDS teachers explaining how to answer "difficult" questions without exposing the truth. Looks like Mitt attended the same training. :)

They say; "You are judged by the company you keep."

On the left:
Tree huggers, gays, socialists, the media

On the right:
Gun lovers, bigots, Apocalyptic creationists, and Halliburton.

I choose left. Everytime.

I don't really understand the fear about better North American trade. Other than the obvious labor issues that will have to be worked out of course. I certainly haven't found myself so infatuated with the politics of the "Soverign United States" in recent history. Recent history has not revealed an America wth a great deal of support for human rights. Maybe getting Canada a little more involved in our economy would improve things politically and internationally. After all their dollar is worth more now.

What struck me watching the debates last night, was how utterly and completely the GOP lacks vision! The only solutions any one of them could offer to any problem this country faces was to bomb it or to cut taxes. They have no other tools in their collective toolboxes!

Since the modern GOP, addicted as they are to the preachings of St. Ronnie, believes that government is the problem, I guess they can't ever bring themselves to admit that govenrment can, in fact, solve certain problems. There wasn't a single word about alternative technologies or new transportation or housing initiatives. Not one. This is a political party that is frozen in the 1800's. Finally, only Ron Paul dared even suggest that the military is the largest source of waste and fraud in American government. These gutless chickenhawks all mistake militarism for patriotism. Since McCain is permanently shell-shocked from VietNam, we can expect no more from him. He belongs in a PTSD ward at the local VA!

Yes the Republicans collectively and individually missed getting several opportunities to hit the ball out of the park. Mitt Romney over reacted. The correct response to the Confederate battle flag (not the national Confederate flag) would to have been, "I do not flintch at the sight of the Stars and Bars. I am not afraid of it. Because I know that all it represented was tested in the civil war against all the stars and stripes stands for and that the right won out. Every time I see it I am reminded- that it represents a lesson of us all, that a failed economy and political theory was defeated. One of the founding fathers said, "The price of liberty is eternal vigilence." So when we see that flag, our vigilence can be renewed. Black people were exploitated as slaves. During the industrial revolution people, including children were exploited. Today, Hispanics are being exploited by corporations and at the individual level. The big box stores are the plantations of the new mellenium. That is why we MUST end illegal immigration and not have a national amnesty or a guest worker program. Why the states must begin to act because the southern republican majority in Congress, identifies with the corporations who are the exploiters and, as in the 1860's have made the wrong choice. A choice against freedom and equality. And they must be defeated. All workers must be paid a living wage, corporations must be made to provide afforable health and life insurance and a vialble pension for their old age. Shorter working hours, more days to rest from their labor. That flag reminds us of our heritage as the party of the great emancipator and of equal opportunity and inclusion for all. We cannot have Democrats like FDR telling blacks to go home and turn Lincoln's picture to the wall and take from us our mantle as protectors of the civil rights of all people.

Oh, Freddy, you lazy son-of-a-gun.
He said, "I am glad that people have made the decision not to display it [the confederate flag] as a prominent flag...at a state capitol."
Didn't happen to notice that South Carolina proudly flies the Stars and Bars at the state capitol WHEN YOU WERE THERE EARLIER THIS MONTH?

And, they are all Republicans, so does it really matters what any of them have to say? If Americans are not smart enough to purge Republicans from the White House for a few centuries, then the hell will continue. I believe Americans have had enough of the Re-puke-licans to last for a while. I know I certainly have!

What's funny is I once heard Romney discuss in a religious service the differences between the English versions of the Bible. He said he believed the 1611 KJV was the most accurate, and his knowledge of the differences was profound. I'm surprised he didn't discuss the fact that you can't interpret the English Bible to the letter, because there are so many versions of it.

As a liberal, i'll have to disagree with the mainstream here and say i've got nothing against the confederate flag. It's free speech. It just makes a statement. What exactly that statement is differs dramatically depending on where you're from. Still, there's no reason to put down a man for saying a person has a first amendment rights, especially in his or her own home.

As I watched the debate and read what nearly every expert and poll suggests, the reality is that John McCain is the only candidate who can beat Hillary.

It will be up to the voters of New Hampshire and South Carolina to come to the same realization. My prayers are that people will step back and evaluate this situation. I supported Ross Perot but the Paul supporters need to realize that he will not win. Hence, the only person with the knowledge and ability to deal with world leaders is McCain. McCain may be arguing with Paul but actually they both are the best candidates to get us out of the war. McCain knows how to win it and stabilize the situation. Paul knows how to lose it and pull our troops out. The problem is that the Republican party will not elect him. Hence, come to that reality if you truly care about saving the most lives of American troops. All democrats and Republicans candidates are staying in Iraq until it stabilizes. DON'T BE FOOLED! Yes, the Democrats are staying in Iraq also. They have no choice.
So, who do you choose? McCain. This is a critical moment for our country. He can lead us through this disaster better than anyone else.

McCain has been a darling of the media and establishment for over 8 years now and still cant outraise Ron Paul.

His dud about "that isolationism allowed Hitler to come to power" didnt go over well with the crowd or Ron Paul, who gave him an unmistakable "you know better" look. Apparently at least half the crowd knew better too- America wasnt isolationist at all (in fact, very few throwing the term around nowadays seem to have any idea at all what "isolationism" even means) prior to WW2 and what allowed Hitler to do what he did for so long was belief in his appeal that he somehow needed to pre-emptively invade European countries for Germany's security.

Im still baffled by this continued mantra of "winning vs. losing" in Iraq. Apparently only a few of us remember what the actual mission objectives were for that invasion and the fact that we have already completed all of them...as of 2 years ago.

It should not be surprising that so much ignorance about history exists today!

Romney comes from a State (MA) where Caucasian Yankees owned slave ships flying the American flag unloaded their human cargo in Boston Harbor. Africans owned slaves and sold their own people out of Africa! The Confederate States of America did not start slavery but we did fight for the 10th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution which the anti-south yankees like to aknowledge only when the central government comes knocking on their doors! We do not need a hypocrite in the White House. We have had enough of them lately.

Here are documents from the Canadian government about the "NAFTA highway":

http://www.infratrans.gov.ab.ca/INFTRA_Content/docType56/Production/pol306.htm
http://www.infratrans.gov.ab.ca/INFTRA_Content/doctype59/production/pol295.htm
http://www.infratrans.gov.ab.ca/INFTRA_Content/doctype59/production/Canamex-Trade-Brochure.pdf

They refer to the projects as "NAFTA Trade Corridors", "NAFTA Superhighway", and "CANAMEX Trade Corridor" in their documents. They mention that the highways will run parallel to I-25 and I-15.

Please take the time to review the documents (especially the PDF). I kind of doubt you'll write up a follow up article about this, but that would of course be proper.

jeff, you don't think we're going to let the fact that Ron Paul had his facts straight get in the way of a good ol' "Ron Paul is a tinfoil hat wearing, black helicopter dodging loon" smear, do you?

and oh-by-the-way..., he ALSO mis-spoke {gasp..}, and used the wrong ethnic group's name at one point..., VERY serious issue for him in the primaries!
you just KNOW the author of the article has never done anything remotely like that

and wadda' ya' wanna' bet we could find a Ron Paul written article or official statement that refers to the Kurds correctly?
i.e.: he really DOES know which is which
like this one maybe:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul58.html

a very interesting read, actually, where in Oct. 2002, the Good Doctor takes apart the claims Bush's administration and all their supporters in Congress were spouting as justification for invading Iraq.