I am so sick of people saying the Oklahoma City bombing was done by Timothy McVeigh. Read a book. Specifically, read Jayna Davis's book. Oklahoma City was done by Iraqis. McVeigh was present but he was a bit player.

Mr. Chapman, Teva Pharmaceuticals, the creators of Plan B, include a warning label warning that the drug may interfere with a fertilized embryo's ability to implant. That means abortion. It appears that if anybody is anti-science, it is you. I don't know whether you simply didn't do your research or you have chosen to lie, but either way my respect is diminished. Out here in middle America where regular folk live, common sense exists. We know the scientists aren't sure what Plan B contraceptives do to fertilized embryos and we know that finding out is next to impossible and we know that eggs can be fertilized very quickly if the circumstances are right. Add all that up and we figger there's a damn good chance this is abortion.

There's no doubt marijuana use is harmful. There is also no doubt that 16 oz. sodas are harmful. As people who believe in INDIVIDUAL liberty, granted by God, we cannot start choosing which freedoms we strip from our fellow citizens based on our own personal preferences. That makes us no better than the liberals who are slowly turning America into a police state. You know this, Dennis. That's why you tried to justify your position by citing accident statistics... but you know as well as I do that accident statistics are politicized nonsense. MADD started it, now the cellphone haters and the marijuana users are doing it: confusing correlation with causation so they can blame traffic accidents on their devil du jour.

Great minds think alike, Mr. Williams: http://www.jpattitude.com/130126.php The Social Security lie by the president was untrue in another way that you missed: replacing the IOUs in the trust fund with general obligation issues to send out SS checks would not add to the "public debt" that is resticted by the debt ceiling. The process simply replaces one kind of debt with another.

I tried to deconstruct the numbers in Planned Parenthood's annual report in a column published today: http://www.jpattitude.com/130112.php Great minds think alike, Kathryn.

The trouble with big city conservative pundits is that they eventually lose touch with the base. Even you, Ann. Yes, Romney is a nice guy. Yes, he holds many conservative principles. But nobody is mentioning the elephant in the room: out here in the hinterland we still take our relationship with God seriously, more seriously than our interest in politics. It isn't politically correct to mention Romney's religion, but if you want to see what effect it had, read what Devin from North Dakota said about the voters in his family - it'll open your eyes: http://www.jpattitude.com/121107.php#11 Fact is, Romney was a non-Christian running against a non-Christian and that's a contest guaranteed to leave the Republican base unenthused.

"or else everything that happened will become a sweet story that will grow poisonous as bright berries that hang low on trees." Whatever else we know, we know the writer is bad at his craft.

I've tried to catalogue election fraud in the U.S.: http://www.jpattitude.com/ElectionFraud.php It's an impossoble job because prosecutors would rather visit the dentist than prosecute vote fraud, so the stories seldom become national news stories. Even so, I've got quite a list for people to use whenever Democrats say the problem doesn't exist.

Right on, Mr. Hawkins. I've been trying to keep a list of election fraud incidents - http://www.jpattitude.com/ElectionFraud.php - and it's not easy. There are way more incidents than Democrats want to admit.

Allowing everybody to immigrate may have worked well before the 20th century because we had a frontier. Suggesting that it would still be a viable alternative now, in the 21st century, when we no longer have endless empty land to fill and even the poorest peasant from the farthest country can hop on a plane and get to the U.S., tells me that Jacoby didn't really put any serious thought into this column. If we opened the borders completely we would be buried in people.