My husband was raised in rural Wyoming when there were still many neighbors around and the mail came to a small ranch post office and the people came there to get mail, stamps, send packages etc. Mail was delivered only twice a week. They closed the post office several yeas ago and there is no way to get those services there now, but mail still only comes twice a week. They have to put a mail bag out on the road and it is taken for outgoing mail and another one left for incoming mail. There are still places where progress hasn't come.

What is absolutely amazing is that in California they are actually thinking of promoting a bill about 'gay marriage Infertility' whatever that is. The more you think about it, the funnier it gets. How could a gay marriage be fertile? Will the state have to finance sex changes so one could be fertile? Wouldn't that nullify the whole gay marriage thing? What other possibilities are there ? It boggles the mind.

And just who is to blame for the low educational achievement? Politicians? Schools? How about parents?? Dr. Carson told how his mother, who only had a 3rd grade education, would accept no excuses or failures. He was made to do all his homework and poor grades were not acceptable. Now we have over half of black children born to single parents, many on drugs and alcohol, low education, and very little ambition. We see gangs hanging around, crime rampant in ghettos, young adults living on the streets waiting in welfare lines. When will the young girls realize that the men on the street have nothing to offer them and turn their thoughts to being better than that. They are just as smart and capable as any one, if they just believed.

I taught 7th grade science which included smoking, alcohol, drugs and AIDS. I had to have parental permission for all of those subjects and when parents were going to opt their children out of those classes, I called the parents and assured them that this would NOT be a how-to class, but a why-not-to class and very few kept their students out. I gave my students real facts, real situations and knowledge on how to handle them. I think I did some good, one student on an anonymous evaluation stated she (I think from the handwriting) would not have sex until a year after she was married. A little overkill I think!

If anyone is old enough to remember the division of Israel, at the time there were both some Jews but mostly Palestinians living there. When it was officially divided the Jews asked the Palestinians to stay and work together. Most left, and their own kind, loving government put them in concentration-like camps, where they have been ever since. Israel has become a powerful country but the Palestinian's own government has done nothing to help them. Those poor people are being used as propaganda by their own government. If they were really concerned about their plight they would build homes and businesses and develop opportunities for them to progress, just as Israel did for all the poor homeless refugees that came to them.

Wait until they tax ranchers and farmers for the gas their livestock exhale. And as we are all of the same physiology just think where that one can go.

Obama is anti-racist???? He uses racism more than any other President has for a long time. His staff uses racism to smear almost any statement by anyone other than a democrat. And since when did any communist party defend and encourage democracy? Support from the communist party would not seem to be a positive thing.

What part of "Congress shall make no laws respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof". Telling the pastor of any Church he cannot invoke the name of Jesus Christ when he has been asked to lead a prayer is insane. What would he use instead-"in the name or Apollo, Zeus, Baal, Shiva, Obama" or any other would be god ? Why do we suddenly bow to dissenters?

It's amazing that in a country founded on religious liberty that a small, but very vocal, group of people who do not believe in religious liberty can cause speakers who do not agree with them to have to cancel speaking engagements or not speak their own beliefs and views. Now what would happen if a religious group tried to force an LGBT speaker to cancel his engagements? that would cause quite an uproar over freedom of speech. It seems now that many people believe in freedom of speech only if it fits their views.

Will Obama either go or send a delegation of Chavez supporters to the funeral to pay his respects?

Where in the Constitution is there anything regarding the Supreme Court being able to overturn an election in any way, be it gay marriage, taxations, veterans loans or any of the myriad of other propositions that have been either passed or not? the Supreme Court was supposed to be a part of the checks and balances between the Congress, President and the Court itself. It should not be the arbitrator of whether or not the majority of the people in a state want to pass a law in their state. If Prop 8 had not passed, should the people who believed in it gone to the courts to override it? If the losing side can go to court and overturn an election, why bother to have one at all? That wouldn't be a democracy tho", is that what we want?