PALIN - the people who support her will never support anything Democratic. Let's get over it and not waste time trying to win them over. For all of Obama's warm overtures, only one Republican voted for public health, and just maybe he's an illegal immigrant.

POPULIST RAGE? A lot of that problem is due to our democratic representatives who have meekly allowed the right to walk all over them. Where is their spirited defense of government? Public programs? Letting bankers get away with grand theft of public money? etc., etc., etc.

Americans know something is very wrong in government. Let's address that.

The way these people are operating, I can't help but wonder if they would support, indeed demand healthcare if Obama was against it.

Perhaps racism is really the issue.

Dumb Canadians. They should study how the US does it:

First, subsidize the cost of digging up, and processing the fuel. Never mind about health insurance for the people (read Indians) who do the mine work. Now lease the fuel to the nuclear power companies so they don't have to include the spent fuel storage costs.

Now pay for insurance, or at least cap the insurance fees. Stream line the approvals process, give huge tax breaks for the construction costs - oh - and let government pay for the cost of the design costs while you're at. Did I forget anything? There must be more govt. subsidies I forgot about. In the end, hey - Nuclear power is too cheap to meter, and there's never been an accident.

Oh yes, that's it. I forgot to mention that you lie and lie and lie about the whole process, and pay off the lobby people in DC to smooth the whole project - and get yet more money.

See how cheap nuclear power can be - in America.

Why is America flunking science? I think society neither encourages people to think for themselves, to read, or be curious.

Are you yourself guilty? Car radio on whenever you drive? IPOD in your ear with tunes and podcasts? TV on most of the night? Our society doesn't encourage thinking. Better to distract the mind. Did I mention that the US is an anti-intellectual society?

So the mysteries of life tend to be not thought about. Life becomes a constant distraction. Why study science or even have time to think about it, Now what is Paris Hilton up to now?

Not mentioned in the article are the predatory practices in the loan industry allowed by the Bush administration and the privatizing of the student loan business. Salon has had articles about this in the past.

For example, one article talks about how the student loan company would suddenly change the interest rate on the person paying off the student loan.

Sigh, yet one more example of greed unleashed by Bush and company.

Did you like the McDonald hamburger - the smell and taste are a product of modern chemistry.

Do you want the old-fashioned recipe of KFC - they discontinued that years ago. The Colonel was furious and demanded that his name and picture be removed. Yes, the chain used to be called Colonel Sanders Kentucky Fried Chicken. Seems that the people who later bought out the chain wanted a cheaper recipe.

Taco Bell - should we even call that stuff food?

When does highly processed stop being food? Do you really want that stuff in your body?

Other letter-writers are correct - let's support the small mom and pop eating places. At least they sell food.

Why is Cheney speaking out? Simple...

He's afraid that he'll be tried for war crimes.

And since the best defense is an offense...he's speaking out.

Laying out his defense before he's tried. The problem, as usual, is that he's lying. Here's hoping he's brought to justice.

I guess the author has forgotten how Bush politicians re-wrote scientific reports of govt. agencies so they hued the party line. If that isn't anti-science, I don't know what is.

While most of the investment firms that funneled money to Madoff were unaware of Madoff's treachery, they clearly neglected to perform due diligence...

Don't believe a word of that. I have a friend who worked in Wall Street over 20 years ago, and she said that even then, people knew that Madoff was a crook. They just kept quiet.

The interesting part is that my friend finally had to quit Wall Street, leaving the big bucks and all because Wall Street was so corrupt, she couldn't stand what it was doing to her personally.

So what crookedness had not been uncovered?

Watching a little of CNN, I realized that it's their BIG story. The reporter was almost breathless as he talked about the Swine Flu. He had a mask around his neck, just in case.

Anything for ratings. I just flipped the channel. Jeesh, our media is so bad these days. I mean, who watches that stuff?