I highly recommend the Silent Wings Museum, the national WWII glider history museum. It is on the west side of the Lubbock Preston Smith International Airport in Lubbock, Texas. What is now LBB airport was built and used in the 1940's as the main glider training base for the Army Air Force. The museum was formerly the passenger terminal. Easy to find off of I27 north of Loop 289. Website is http://www.silentwingsmuseum.com.

This man attempted to destroy a US-registered airliner. This is a crime and when you commit or are charged with a crime, you are arrested and given certain rights long defined by the Supreme Court, including Miranda warnings. To call this an "act of war" is to live in cloud-cuckoo-land. We are not at war with Nigeria, the nation to which he has loyalty. Citizenship is not an issue on criminal defendants' rights. What was done was perfectly correct and reflects thew fact that President Obama is not only a lawyer but was a professor of constitutional law at one of the nation's finest law schools.
And, may I remind one and all that in an identical situation, the thugs of the Bush administration submitted Richard Reid to the...

May I remind the writer that we have and always have had term limits for Congress. We call them elections. All members must face the voters every two or six years, depending on the chamber. And even the mighty can fall in elections, including House Speakers {Tom Foley} and majority leaders {Ernest MacFarland and Tom Daschle}.
Also, term limits on Congress cannot be imposed by statute. The Supreme Court has made it cleared that this would require a Constitutional amendment.

Did it ever dawn on the writer of this column that Sgt Munley is not a member of the military, but a civilian police officer working for the DOD? She certainly seems to have comported herself well, but should be judged by the standards of a peace officer, not the right-wing Rambo fantasy, whose Koolaid someone seems to have drunk.

I commend President Obama for his effort to win the Olympic games for Chicago {and the US}. Remember that the president/prime minister/sovereign of the other three contenders went to Copenhaqen and most spent much more time there than Mr. Obama. Had he not gone to Denmark, the Obama-hating right would have declaimed that the US lost because he did not care enough to plead our case. I for one am proud of this articulate, brilliant man representing this country so splendidly after eight years of a religious fanatic semi-literate dolt who would likely have gone to Copenhagen with a Bible and a board and thumped the board to demand the US be given the games because Jesus wanted it and told him that in the Oval Office whilst he was...

May I remind Brent that the quondam worst terrorist suspect in the United States, Timothy McVeigh of Oklahoma City infame, who was, since the hate-filled right likes to make religion a big deal, an altar boy in his home Catholic church in a Buffalo suburb, was tried in a Federal District Court in Denver under a fair and reasonable judge, Richard Matsch, was convicted and now has ceased to exist with the assistance of the Bureau of Prisons. No one mentioned any military kangaroo court as a venue, but then again the President of the day, Bill Clinton, was a} intelligent and b} a qualified lawyer. George Bush was neither, but now we have a president who actually thinks the Bill of Rights should be followed. After all, he taught...

Carrie Prejean did not litigate against the Miss America organization. She was Miss California USA and competed in the Miss USA pageant, winning which sends one to the Miss Universe pageant. Nothing to do with Miss America, an entirely separate enterprise. Miss USA is owned by Donald Trump, who also owns or significantly controls the Miss Universe operation.

Sorry, Ollie, the bombing attempt did not take place in the "sky over Michigan." A flight from Amsterdam {or anywhere else in Europe}, when it is 15 minutes from Detroit Metro will be over Essex County, Ontario, which is in a country called Canada. Check the path of NW253 on http://www.flightware.com. Facts are uncomfortable things for conservatives.

Since when is the population of the US anywhere near 435 million? Try maybe 308 million.

If Canadian medical care is so awful, why do Canadians have a statistically-significant longer life expectancy and a vastly lower infant mortality rate? Plus MUCH less expenditure on medical care. True, there are waits for elective care, but emergency care is delivered immediately and urgent care is delivered urgently.
One should also note that Canadian medical schools are accredited by the same body as US schools {the Liaison Committee on Medical Education} and American physicians go to Canada for residencies, especially at Canada's best medical schools like McGill and McMaster.
The approval rate for Canada's medicare system is in the 80%-plus range amongst Canadians in all provinces, they don't waste time listening to...