• Jonathan Tasini
• JD Foster of the Heritage Foundation.

• Why are conservatives hysterical here in the United States that President Obama performed a diplomatically correct bow to Japan’s emperor? And what about the best democracy lobbying can buy…
• The Audacity Of Greed: Free Markets, Corporate Thieves And The Looting Of America.
• What's wrong with raising payroll taxes on the wealthy to pay for health care?

• Pocket Full Of Sunshine, Natasha Bedingfield.
• A Higher Place, Tom Petty. Don't Do Me Like That, Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers (video).
• The Revolution Starts Now, Steve Earle (video).
• I Need to Know, Tom Petty.
• Dizzy, Tommy Roe.
• Heard The World , O.A.R.
• Tumbling Dice, Rolling Stones (video).
• Crazy, Gnarls Barkley.
• I Still Believe, The Call.
• Democracy, Leonard Cohen.

"Upon this a question arises: whether it be better to be loved than feared or feared than loved? It may be answered that one should wish to be both, but, because it is difficult to unite them in one person, is much safer to be feared than loved, when, of the two, either must be dispensed with. Because this is to be asserted in general of men, that they are ungrateful, fickle, false, cowardly, covetous, and as long as you succeed they are yours entirely; they will offer you their blood, property, life and children, as is said above, when the need is far distant; but when it approaches they turn against you. And that prince who, relying entirely on their promises, has neglected other precautions, is ruined; because friendships that are obtained by payments, and not by greatness or nobility of mind, may indeed be earned, but they are not secured, and in time of need cannot be relied upon; and men have less scruple in offending one who is beloved than one who is feared, for love is preserved by the link of obligation which, owing to the baseness of men, is broken at every opportunity for their advantage; but fear preserves you by a dread of punishment which never fails."