Wow, a 10 year old would rather eat a corn dog than quinoa. Who'da thunk it? Up until 5th grade, I went to a private school that did not offer school lunch. Nobody thought anything of it, this was the 1960's and it was assumed that feeding a child was the parent's responsibility. When I started in public school, most kids packed, or those who lived close actually went home to eat since Mom was actually there to cook. Forget about going home, kids now can't even bring food with them. Are these Chicago parents just lying down and taking it? Woe betide the school that would have told me I couldn't feed my children as I saw fit. This country is going to hell in a handbasket.

Amen.

That's disgusting. Where are the police? Isn't public defecation a crime? Isn't staying in an establishment past closing when you've been asked to leave considered trespass? The mayor of New York needs to clean up this mess before all the good work Guiliani did to improve the city goes right down the toilet.

Liberals say that conservatives want to take America back to the 1950's. Apparently liberals want to take us back to the 1850's. Mules? Clearing land with hand tools? I am all for preserving the environment, and I certainly want mines and other businesses to operate safely, but this is ridiculous.

I do not understand why this has been allowed to go on so long. It's my understanding that park is private property. I completely support the right to protest - come, protest, make your point, march, sing, chant, whatever. And then GO HOME. Come back another day. Don't take over a park, having public sex, crapping on police cars, smoking pot, and in the process denying other citizens their right to use that park, generating mounds of trash that taxpaying citizens will have to pay to get rid of. You pegged it. This is not a protest - it's Woodstock without the decent music.

Sorry. When she accepted the call to ministry, she knew the conflict resolution policies that were in effect, it's no different than when someone's cell phone or credit card contract requires arbitration instead of litigation. She knew what she was getting into, she needs to shut up and deal with it. She could have left under circumstances that would allow her to return to the ministry later. She chose not to. I am so sick of people who refuse to take responsibility for themselves. If a church can't decide who its ministers are, then freedom of religion is dead in this country.

"you're so blind and bigoted it's ridiculous. You're just so ignorant. You literally 'know' you are right, but you are 100%, fundamentally, unequivocally wrong on this issue." Right back at you. When it comes to judging right and wrong, I'll stand with the Word of God, thanks, not a couple of decades of psychobabble and your personal desires to run your life the way you please.

Some of our founders were deists, but certainly not all, and a majority of the citizens at the time of ratification were Christians. A huge majority. You can dress it up any way you like, but our nation does have a Christian heritage. And to say that 'endowed by our Creator' could be interpreted as 'endowed by no god or whatever you want it to be' is just ludicrous. Forget political and religious philosophy, that's not even good use of the English language. Words have meaning.

Liberals simply do not trust people to make their own choices and live with the consequences. If you eat McDonald's every dayl, you'll get fat. Duh. Fast food, soda, chips - these things are not intended to be dietary staples. The single best thing parents (and it IS the parents' responsibility, not the government's ) can do to fight childhood obesity is to turn off all the electronic entertainment devices and send the kids outside.

Thank you. I don't care what adults do, and would fight tooth and nail against any law preventing adults from buying these games or any other form of entertainment (apart from those forms that result from harm to others like child porn or snuff). It isn't nanny statism to want to create an environment which protects the innocence of children. As far as I know, this California law doesn't criminalize parents who buy these games for their kids, so parental rights are protected.