More precisely, they use our tax payments to spend their way to power. I lived in Surbiton, Surrey, a half-hour train ride from London, from 1955 to 1958 when my father was assigned to Bushy Park air force base. I remember what London was like then, and I've visited London recently. London was much nicer and safer in the 1950s.

Townhall could screen these posts out. I've repeatedly offered to do so, and Townhall has never responded.

Pro-lifers are pro choice. We just want the choices to be (1) raise the child or (2) put the child up for adoption.

How many "back-alley abortions" were happening every year before the Supremes made abortion legal throughout the US? I'd be surprised if there were more than a few thousand. Planned Parenthood alone murders a few HUNDRED thousand babies (the English translation of the latin word Fetus) each year. US orphanages are NOT overflowing. US couples wanting to adopt infants have to go outside the country to obtain them.

Sounds reasonable to me. But only if the cavity searcher gets well deserved extra pay!

Amen!

I envy you, Miss Charen. I wish I could have written so well as to be selected as a writer for NR. What a priceless gift to have known both Priscilla AND William Buckley!

Most people seem to accept the Darrows portrayed (by Spencer Tracy) in the movie "Inherit the Wind" of the Scopes trial and portrayed (by Orson Welles) in the movie "Compulsion" of the Leopold-Loeb as accurate pictures of the man, Clarence Darrow. SilentCalfan's evaluation of Darrow is more accurate: "He was a corrupt lawyer." Interestingly, the man most inaccurately portrayed in "Inherit the Wind" was William Jennings Bryan. Much of that trial was broadcast on the radio, and the listeners who heard Darrow's questioning of Bryan thought Bryan clearly bested Darrow.

"The only reason a man as ignorant as him keeps getting elected is the people he represents are just as racist as him." Who is the "him" in your post? I don't recall Sharpton ever having been elected to any public office.

You have a point when you say about computer programs, "Suggestions are just that -- suggestions." The annoyance is that the program makes the same suggestions over and over and over and may require you to go to significant extra trouble to get the text you want into your document. That's why I'd prefer to be able to turn off grammar checking or, better yet, let me select which grammar alerts I want (such as subject - verb mismatch) and which I don't (spouse rather than wife or husband). I'd also like the program to remember that I've already rejected its "suggestion" and not "remind" me again each time I save or print the file.