team together and manufacture lies like "Obama wants socialism" or "they're gonna tax us into bankruptcy" or we're "becoming a socialist state" and the wingnuts run out and buy flags and paint signs and take time off from work and, using explicit directions from the right wing blowhards, run out and pass themselves off as the saviors of democracy and capitalism.

And, after all of this they offer not one, single intelligent idea in opposition.

Lawyers do not determine what is legal. Courts do that.

A lawyer will advise as to what the laws are. But they provide an argument, not a judgement.

Anyone with an I.Q. over 50 should know that inflicting physical or mental harm on someone is "torture" so the excuse that they were "following legal orders" does not fly.

If the Republicans ever become a majority you can bet that they will torture people because the "Administration says it is legal".

Have these idiots forgotten about WW II already?

They are the dying embers of the Republican meltdown. Let them rant all they want. They are speaking to the brain-dead who only look in their rear-view mirrors.

is a manifestation of a society that is bred to believe that violence is often necessary and justice is served when lethal force is used.

From the early days when moviegoers watched western movie heros using six-guns to right wrongs and avenge honor to present-day action films where sophisticated assault weapons are used by gangs and criminals, we have a movie industry whose main inventory of ideas center around cruelty, violence, and revenge.

This lunacy extends all the way to our government. It determined that preemptive warfare against Iraq was justified based upon irrational fear, weak intelligence, and a foregone conclusion that all-out warfare was the only solution.

With this madness can we be surprised when people turn to their guns and commit violence when they feel threatened or cheated?

We are one of the most violent western countries in the world yet we preach peace and freedom to everyone else.

It is too late to do anything about unfettered gun ownership and gun violence. Better to wear a Kevlar vest and replace your wood front door with one made of steel. Is this how we want to live?

is unfit to hold public office, in my opinion. Such people should be sentenced to cleaning elephant pens in zoos.

They just don't realize it. The arguments against gay marriage become weaker the more they are discussed. At the end of the day nobody can show where any harm has been done by the gay marriages that have been peformed so far.

Clutching the Bible in one hand and a gun in the other, the wingnuts think they are "saving America from evil", when they, in fact, are the evil ones.

I'm not gay. I do have gay friends, male and female. Most are for gay marriage and it is a very sincere desire that is based upon love and affection which, by the way, is badly needed in a world where conservative ideology tramples common sense and fosters division.

Keep it up, Neocons!

but the rest of us can fight it out with the insurance companies and the drug companies.

What kind of twisted logic puts a fetus on such a pedestal except to force one person's morality upon another? This is what the damn Republicans have been about. Their main party platform seems to be about controlling human behavior and imposing their brand of Christian morality upon everyone. Given what Christ taught, and what he did, he would probably give most Republicans a heart attack were he alive today. Tolerance is not a plank in the Republican platform.

It seems that universal healthcare represents all of the values a modern society should have. So what is the explanation for Republicans' resistance to it?

Publishing the intelligence results of torturing prisoners does not make torture legal. Cheney is a discredited asshat, a blot on American history.

Hannity is a propagandist. Anything he says is not credible, but people watch him anyway. These are the same folks that watch professional wrestling, believing that it is real.

I refuse to worship with people that judge others. I refuse to worship with anyone fostering intolerance and misunderstanding.

Your comments are beneath contempt.

It must be nice to live in a simple-minded world where everything is Clinton's fault. We were fed up with this garbage during the Bush presidency and you bring it up while you refuse to assign any blame or responsibility to Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, et al.

What you Bush apologists refuse to understand is that we had no business in Iraq in the first place. Instead, you wrap yourself in the Flag and refuse to see the writing on the wall.

So here is a little primer for idiots. Iraq had no WMD and we used questionable intelligence to lie ourselves into a useless war. We used shameful interrogation techniques that angered the world and helped the terrorists' cause. We brought terrorism and religious warfare into Iraq.

That asshole Dick Cheney repeated lies about Iraqi WMD, aluminum tubes, and biological weapons trailers long after all of that stuff was disproven.

Thanks to people like you, we, as a country espousing democracy and human respect are in a position where we are having to defend our despicable policies or apologize for them.

Stop talking about what Clinton did 10 years ago and remember the Nuremberg trials and the promise of "never again" and think about the fact that it, indeed, may have happened again. Whether its is 6 million, 60 million, or a few dozen does not change the law. Torture is torture.

is today's shabby chic. I guess it is harmless enough but I'm leery of people spending huge sums for stuff that is pushed in home fashion magazines.

It suggests that we are, indeed, a very shallow culture where materialism is the dominant theme.

Perhaps now folks will learn a new respect for money, and a distaste for wasting it.