Yes, Robert, Molly Norris was tired of her life and decided to start over, sans friends, family and successful career. The threat of assassination just gave her a convenient excuse. You've apparently missed the section in the U.S. constitution (the Preamble, actually) in which the government is established to "secure the blessings of liberty" to those of us who are citizens. Those blessings include freedom of expression, of which drawing Mohammed is an example. Protesting the emotional cruelty of a mosque built at Ground Zero would be a second example. Our government was established to PROTECT our rights to do both, even against foreign threat. Oh, sorry...ESPECIALLY against foreign threats. That's the "provide for the common...

The rest of the world has never loved the U.S.
Not even when we saved them from the Nazi scourge. Not when we send billions and billions of dollars in aid. Not when we send our men and women to die for their freedom.

I'm glad your grandmother received good care.

Even a broken clock is correct twice a day.

Lynn

It's always nice to know ahead of time what films I don't want to see.

Emmerich's name on the project will be an automatic pass for me from now on.

Clive, you're confusing behavior with theology.

Not all Germans killed Jews. Not all Muslims are terrorists.

Not all Christians are intolerant idiots. I suspect the same is true of liberals.

Cheryl

I agree with Wrat Wrangler--the ban on English foxhunting was no doubt the product of the animal rights lobby combined with those who resent the titled and wealthy who can afford the sport. But I find the correlation between foxhunting and the 2nd amendment to the U.S. constitution a little forced. Guns are rarely used on a fox hunt, and would be carried only by the master, or leader, of the hunt. The hounds pursue the fox and the riders follow the hounds. Foxes tend to be wily and usually escape without being caught. The pleasures of the sport lie in the riding and the chasing, not the catching. I don't know that a legalization of fox hunting in England will create many jobs, either, but I can appreciate the chance to recover...

I'm thinking this article has to be sarcasm. Irony, maybe, or satire--a parody on the rule of special interests and the "I want mine" movement.

No thinking person seriously equates body weight and political clout. Medved didn't even mention Bill Clinton's weight issues as president, which are well-documented.

The article fails to deliver insight, in my opinion, because it's offensive on every side of the issue. Conservatives are supposed to value the individual, yet Medved lumps obese people into a single group in need of their own political representatives. Give me a break. Find something real to write about.

My 27 yr old daughter never watched The Simpsons. Why? Because I understood from the promotional material that this show would make parents look like idiots. I did not intend to have that possibility suggested to my kids.

Censorship is a step on the road to tyranny. Anybody read Farenheit 451 lately? I don't want the government or anyone else telling me what I can cannot read.

As a parent, however, I did decide what my children watched on TV. They didn't have sets in their rooms, so I knew what they were seeing at home. And what they saw supported my view of a good and decent society.

Parents must think about what they allow into their kids' minds. Being a parent isn't a biological role, it's a full time job...

From the tone of Mr. Thomas's comments, I would judge him to be from another planet, an alien anthropologist studying human behavior on this benighted globe.

Christians take seriously the admonition in "that Book" to "render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's and unto God the things that are God's." There is no conflict, on any day of the year, in gathering to demonstrate that there are citizens in this country who value prayer on the national level and who are faithful to the Creator who endowed them with life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Senator Boxer's rejection of "Ma'am" sounded to me like an echo of Hilary Clinton's assertion that she didn't "stay home and bake cookies"; in other words, an insult to every woman in the country who works as a wife and a mother.

Ma'am, after all, is a form of Madam or Madame, the term for a married woman.

Cheryl

As a Christian, can I seek an apology from the Italian government for the torture and violent execution of members of the early church?

As a Protestant, can I seek reparations from France for the persecution of Huguenots? From Britain for the burning of "heretics"?

As a woman, could I be compensated for the millenia during which females were considered the possessions of males--traded for economic advantage, required to bear children as frequently as possible regardless of the physical risk, sentenced to drudgery if not actual hard labor, denied the right to vote or own property or work outside the home?

History is a tide of ideas and actions, sweeping individuals from one place and depositing them in another. ...