The hottest global temperature in the last 20 years was in 1998. It has not risen since then. And the avetage temp in 1934 was even higher, though temps began a long FALL for 40 years, even as World War II and the expansion of industry added tremendously to CO2. Only in 1975 did the fall in temps reverse and become a gradual rise, with no apparent specific cause. The temp pattern of the last 100 years shows no direct correlation between rising CO2 levels, present during the entire period, and the rise-fall-rise-flat pattern of actual temps.

Science is supposed to workby making an hypothesis about causeand effect, making apredictionbasedon that hypothesis thatcan be tested, and then testing the hypothesisby comparing the prediction with real world data. If the prediction matches reality, then the hypothesis is seen as more reliable, although it is possible a more clever test may prove an exception, in tbe way Special Relativity is an exception to Newton's Laws of motion. The manmade global warming hypotheses claimed that there is a direct, even exponential positive correlation between CO2 levels in the air and the rate of global warming. But NONE of the warming models predicted that warming would level out for a decade or more, as it has done since 1998!

If it were my daughter's dorm bathroom that he was invading, I would consider giving him some sex change surgery, no charge.

During the 1850s and 1860s, there was a lot of violence along the Kansas-Missouri border over whether Kansas Territory would be admitted to the Union as a free or slave state. Before the Civil War, some 60 people were killed by either side, and during the war, a Union General ordered all Missouri counties adjoining Kansas to be evacuated. In August 1863, a Confederate militia named Quantrill's Raiders attacked Lawrence, Kansas, burning down buildings and killing an estimated 150 to 200 civilians. Since Quantrill's men were natives of the area, it is quite possible that some of the folks next door in the Arkansas county that was visited in the story may be descended from one or more of the participants in that massacre.

Thank you for pointing out that the purpose of an election is to persuade voters who are NOT already committed to your views that they should support the candidate from your party, who is committed to making your views a reality. The simple fact is that the "very conservative" voters are not even the majority in most states let alone across the nation. Taking the attitude that you want nothing to do with anyone who is not your ideal candidate, who is like you in every way, is a sure course to losing any general election. And labeling a candidate "evil" because he only agrees with you on 75% of your views is immature and irrational.

The Supreme Court endorsement of "diversity" is supposed to be about the added value of having diverse viewpoints in a university student body. Yet thebselection of students by race is actually intended to accomplish LACK of diversity, to exclude people from poorer white families who don't do so well on the SAT that they are excluded from being displaced by chosen minorities--which somehow don't include Asians.

Do you afdress the Alien and Sedition Acts? How about wartime speech testrictions during the Fitst and Second World Wars?

The criminalization of speech is actually the most acute point of conflict with the First Amendment, and is directly related to religious speech, such as restrictions on proselyting, and restrictions on religioys expression in schools and other public venues such as memorial crosses on public highway rights of way. It also affects the right of churches to prosecute trespasses onto their property of persons attacking the owner churches. A case involving land purchased by the Mormon Church from Salt Lake City seemed to key on retention of rights of way by the city.

Romney knows he is not going to persuade an audience to change its views about any religion during a discussion with a reporter. When Stephanopoulos asked a debate question about contraceptives, obviously carrying out a mission from Obama, Romney refused to take the bait, unlike the unfortunate Rick Santorum, whose response turned it from a non-issue into a real issue. Liberal reporters want to goad politicians into revealing themselves as.hypocritical Christian troglodytes. The best response in most cases is not rise to the bait. If it comes down to an attack on Christianity per se, Romney can hold.his own. He was a missionary in a very secular France for two years and dealt with much.more difficult questions than those.

There have been Mormons in Congress for 110 years, who have represented not only Utah but also Idaho, Oregon, Nevada, California, Oklahoma, Florida, Colorado, Arizona, and American Samoa. Mormons have headed Federal agencies including Agriculture, Treasury, Interior, Housing and Urban Development (George Romney), Education, Health and Human Services, Environmental Protection Agency, Coast Guard, and Bureau of Indian Affairs (Larry Echo Hawk, a Pawnee Indian and former Attorney General of Idaho who ran as the Democrat candidate for governor, and taught at BYU Law School until his appointment by Obama).