I must go back to the one man who in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds turned this country around and not only got us back on our feet but redeemed us and put our nation back into the perspective which it should have been and always should be "A Shining Beackon of Freedom and Hope". When you are again tempted to spend your time trying to tear down instead of trying to make a positive effort you should step back and ask yourself one simple question. "What would Reagan Do"

Are you talking about the same Reagan who damaged the economy, who made mentally ill people homeless, who slashed college funds, who attacked those who were on welfare, who sold weapons to Iran for the purpose of aiding the contras, who helped the training of El Salvadoran death squads, and whose response to the AIDS crisis was disastrous? And you consider those "positive" efforts?

You need to close your picture books, son, and get to know the real Ronald Reagan, as well as the real George W. Bush.

Are you for real? A fetus doesn't even know what "life" is, nor does it have any concept of what is going on outside of the mother's body, or even what is going on while it is in the mother's body. It doesn't even understand that the place it's in is his mother's body.

So you want a child to be raised by a mother who didn't want the child and knows that it wasn't wanted?

Go to hell.

I liked what one poster said some time ago, that Chris Matthews was nothing but a jocksniffer. He'll eagerly prance around for guys he thinks are "real men," like McCain, George Jr., Arnold, DeLay, Don Imus, etc., in the futile hope that he'll absorb those "manly" qualities.

Sorry Matthews, but these guys are not real men or even real human beings. You are, quite correctly however, an insecure little boy.

"But I'm the decider, and I decide what is best."

How old is Bush? Five years old?

"No, they'll just quip. Reciting quip after quip as if the secret of the show really turns out to be that they are all, in reality, dead, and they now must go through eternity trapped in a hellish prision of compulsive quipiness forever and ever world without end."

I just had to see that again. LOL!

Does anyone know what Hoyer's voting record has been like, especially with Bush Jr. in office? I'm betting that he's supported every move that the boy king has thrown at Congress.

Another Roadside Attraction is one of my favorite books. FYI, in the 1970's there were plans to adapt the book into a movie; I knew through a friend one of the production team members. Unfortunately the movie never happened.

I wasn't aware that 14-year-olds on probation could write to Salon. Isn't your phys ed teacher looking for you, wondering why you ditched class simply because the other boys constantly make fun of you?

I keep hearing references to "Bush is using the fear of war" to do this or that. Are you people blind!? We already are at war!!! We were attacked on 9/11. 3,000 civilians died!

We were not attacked by Iraq on 9/11. That has been proven over and over. The likely culprit, Osama bin Laden, has been forgotten about by the Bush administration. Bush was also planning to invade Iraq before 9/11 ever happened. That has also been proven over and over.

Marriage, as these family values folks describe it, is definitely the "tie that binds." And while bondage can be exciting sometimes, I wonder why we need a national referendum on an event to which private invitations are extended, private relationships are honored, and for which private funds are expended. Basically what the hell are these people doing making laws about our parties?

Angela, I loved your response. I'm definitely sending this to all my friends.

for your response to a guy about the separation of church and state. What I want to know from a guy is, even if what you said was true, that this separation was not in the Constitution, do you not want there to be a separation between church and state? If so, why? Any time church is entangled with government it always ends up badly.

Andrew Sullivan is emblematic of all those others who work in the so-called news media who ignored the facts that were being stated emphatically by reputable experts before this miserable war and invasion were ever started. Those experts who stated that there were no WMD's, that there was no relationship between Saddam and Osama Bin Laden, and that Saddam had nothing to do with 9/11. Either FAIR or Media Matters did a study which showed that of all of the guests who were on the different news shows talking about Iraq, only about five people were anti-war. Why were the experts who knew otherwise never invited on these shows?

It's not only Sullivan who should apologize, but also Wolf Blitzer, Candy Crowley, Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, David Broder, etc., who should apologize. But they won't because they're too insecure and dishonest to do so.

If you believe this, "I don't agree with her politics, but as a professor of critical thinking I've rarely found liberals to be good thinkers or knowledgeable and honest about history and current events" then there's no need to listen to anything else you have to say. In fact, you're quite stupid if you really do believe this. I have never found conservatives to be logical thinkers or knowledgeable and honest about history and current events. Conservatives never get the facts right and they lie consistently. They tie together events that have no relation to each other or they completely overlook events that do have a relation because such interrelationships interfere with their ideology.