Nevermind all those who think that arming everybody is a solution. Nevermind them. There were 402 homicides in Los Angeles County (where I live) last year. The national homicide rate (the majority of which are from guns) eclipses all countries in this world by many-fold, with the exception of those that are engaged in war.

Like the war on drugs, the war on the so-called "right to bear arms"... in which purchasing a gun is easier then getting a driver's license, has done nothing but maintain a most horrific national statistic of homicide. One of the guns used by the very disturbed man who killed all of those innocent people was purchased only a month before he snapped.

If we do not have a method of vetting the unstable, the criminal or the violent from purchasing at will these highly engineered machines of death, then how can we ever stop the random but persistent tragedy of gun homicide in our country?

I'm surprised that Mr. Grieve even continues to give that opiate addicted slappy headed ho Limbaugh the ink that he does.

Regarding his poor performance in front of the Senate committee CNN reported: "One prominent Republican describing the testimony this way, as 'clubbing a baby seal."

I have never heard of a baby seal that tried to subvert a branch of governement for totalitarian rule by one (very corrupt) party. So club away Senators, our democracy depends on it.

By answering "I don't know", close to a hundred times according to Schumer and precisely 84 times according to a protester at the end of the hearing, Mr. Gonzales has all but sealed his fate in ending his corrupt tenure as Attorney General. But following him to his public service grave is the who, what, why and how they planned to subvert the judiciary for Republican rule.

This issue should not die with the pathetic resignation of this lapdog to the Rove/Bush plan of totalitarianism. This is not a small matter. This is certainly not about a blow job.

Should we ever get to the bottom of how Shaha Ali Riza got her security clearance, I will bet that it was fascilitated by unqualified political hires that replaced career officers in the various points of command necessary to circumvent the law to grant her security clearance.

Everyone jumps up and down at the unsuitablity of the political hires to do the job that they were hired for. In fact, all those jumping up and down are correct. However, they were not hired to do the job that was described, proscribed by law. Instead, they, these Republican plants, were hired to do the job towards this gawd-awful masterplan of totalitarian rule by a single party, under the direction of these neo-cons.. fascists... whatever you want to call them...

If ending an illegal occupation that is the definition of Crimes Against the Peace is treason, then let us be treasonous.

If one less American soldier's death can be achieved by pulling our troops out, then treason should be worn proudly.

If our treasury can be spared having to borrow another 150 billion to fund this mother of all failed wars, then how great the crime of treason has become.

If the country that we occupy, takes to the streets and demands that we withdraw, let's abide them in the name of treason.

If our war crime of failing to keep the peace after occupying a country can begin to be resolved with our departure, then treason becomes noble.

If those who pushed us into this war on deliberately false information are brought to task, and charged with the crimes that they have committed, then there is no higher cause then treason.

If only we can begin to remove our contribution into the war that we caused and has subsequently killed over half a million people, then treason has become a moral imperative.

In truth, I am much more likely to support the charge of treason to those who continue to support, apologize and evangelize for an administration that has worked so hard to destroy our constitution and our democracy.

Scott Bloch may not be the best person for certain aspects of his job. The gay community has him on notice to be sure. However, this former labor lawyer is an expert at the Hatch Act, and has written two published papers on the subject.

We can only hope that, like many who chose to serve at the president's pleasure, he has woken up to the reality of their criminal enterprise and will do his job to uncover the scope of their malfeance under the Hatch act....

The president has received a bill in plenty of time that fully funds the troops. What he fails to understand is that congress writes the bills. He only signs them.

If he signs the bill, as it stands, the troops come home in a year and a half. If he vetos the bill (and I hope he does), then the troops could be home by July. No bill, no funding. It's that simple, and he does not have any powers to spend money that is not allocated to him. Period. So.. go ahead Mr. Bush... make my day!

Ok...let's see...leave soldiers in Iraq where they are in danger of losing their lives....or bringing them home where.... they might live to old age... yes... the President is right... playing politics with war is wrong... so PLEASE Mr. Bush... VETO THAT BILL... by doing so... you will take the politics of congress out of the picture (a bill to fully fund the troops for another year and a half) or your political slant (fund the troops indefinitely). No bill passed... no funding... no more war. VETO SIR!

Perhaps the Times is not interested in echo chamber backslapping of members of the media that failed to expose the lies that led us to an illegal war with the guest of honor being a bona fide war criminal. Then again, perhaps not.