Latest Comments

• What should be the minimum age to hunt without adult supervision?

  Tue Jul 21, 2009
  • This is not a one-size-fits-all issue; it depends upon the skill and maturity of the child. I had my first gun at 7 & never had a problem.

• British government spells end of 'i before e' rule

  Sun Jun 21, 2009
  • Excellent.

• British government spells end of 'i before e' rule

  Sun Jun 21, 2009
  • I wish the "simplified spelling" folks would just take a little Latin and German. Now that an "educated" person need never learn the mechanics of our language we should not be surprised by such ignorance.

• What do you think of an Ohio school's suspension of a teenager for attending his girlfriend's prom?

  Mon May 11, 2009
  • I don't agree with the school's views but their handling of the situation is respectable - they gave him a choice and held him responsible

• Feds to toss charges against pro-Israel lobbyists

  Fri May 1, 2009
  • Casey, that's why we have a Secretary of State and other OFFICIAL delegations under the State Department. These men are PRIVATE CITIZENS who worked for perhaps the most powerful lobby in Washington. They had no authorization to have the information given them, no more than you or I.

• Feds to toss charges against pro-Israel lobbyists

  Fri May 1, 2009
  • If these men had been Muslims who passed on information to Iran rather than Israel they would have been kidnapped and shipped off to some unofficial prison to be waterboarded. Hypocrisy. We are no longer a nation of laws but of favors.

• Should Supreme Court justices be appointed to serve life terms?

  Fri May 1, 2009
  • Yes, IF they lived up to their Constitutional duty to be a check on Executive overreach, as the current Court has most decidedly not.

• Loopholes let gun smuggling to Mexico flourish

  Tue Apr 14, 2009
  • Since Congress lifted the ban on assault rifles in 2004, more and more of the weapons recovered in Mexico have been military-style rifles like the AK-47s or the AR-15, the authorities in both countries say.

• Scientists find why scratching relieves an itch

  Mon Apr 6, 2009
  • Dun, it's not that there shouldn't be research in this field; it's that the research should not be paid for by the federal government when private companies will reap the rewards of the findings through the sales of pharmaceuticals or stimulator devices.

• Obama to send more trainers to Afghanistan

  Thu Mar 26, 2009
  • Perpetual war. Nothing new.