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• From Pa. to Ga., health protests intensify

  Wed Aug 12, 2009
  • It is more important to have television coverage with people who have actual questions that other Americans might have than the mud-slinging opposition. It is not a meeting developed for the purpose of showing Americans how colorful American people's vocabulary can be.

• From Pa. to Ga., health protests intensify

  Wed Aug 12, 2009
  • What I haven't read on this entire page is some criticism of the actual changes they are attempting to make. Obama is right about doing nothing being the worst thing. We ought to be ashamed of ourselves for allowing health care to have sunk so far.

• Should the military ban smoking by service members?

  Tue Jul 14, 2009
  • Smoking is a quick and relatively easy way to deal with stress, in combat and in the rear. Take it away and then you've got to deal with the stress problems, which are already a problem. Take one problem away and you have to deal with another.

• Should the military ban smoking by service members?

  Tue Jul 14, 2009
  • I was in Iraq and it would have been terrible if I couldn't smoke.

• Sotomayor's jackpot win, court rulings revealed

  Wed Jun 3, 2009
  • Blind justice? There is no such thing. Our decisions are always colored by our experiences. There is no true freedom from bias. We all see through our racial/ethnic/religious colored glasses. What I resent is the implication that this woman is going to be the START of that.

• U.S. military: Heavily armed and medicated

  Tue May 19, 2009
  • I was a Marine in Iraq. There were people who lived in my hooch telling us they were bipolar and taking all kinds of pills. I don't even remember the names of all the medications. Then everyone else started chiming in about what they were taking.

• Vaccine-wary parents spark public health worry

  Fri Aug 22, 2008
  • Oh absolutely YH&S, damn all those healthy free-thinking people. What a bunch of nutjobs.

• Vaccine-wary parents spark public health worry

  Fri Aug 22, 2008
  • Because the vaccine does not prevent an adult from getting any of those diseases. Shingles from chicken pox? My mother-in-law has it and she was fully vaccinated. The vaccines do not prevent adults from getting those illnesses. My husband and I just had measles.

• Vaccine-wary parents spark public health worry

  Fri Aug 22, 2008
  • Are you comparing diseases like measles to autism? One is a mild childhood illness that usually doesn't require a doctor or medicine, presenting danger only to those with severely compromised immune systems, and the other is a lifetime affliction which affects the brain.

• Vaccine-wary parents spark public health worry

  Fri Aug 22, 2008
  • Kristi, "died from a disease that I could have prevented"?