How much abuse has actually been measured? Regardless of all these whining anecdotes, voter fraud is incredibly open to abuse. Go to the polls, state your name, don't show any id, just state your name and vote. If you whiners can't see the potential for abuse in that, you are wearing blinders. Whether or not it actually happens, I don't know, but none of you do either, and I notice that none of the complainers have tried to substantiate it either.

To add to that whine by pretending this is a Republican plot to disenfranchise Democratic voters is just bizarre.

It's easier to commit voter fraud than to pony up a stolen credit card. There's something wrong with those priorities.

I personally would rather have a pot of indelible ink at the polling station and no other controls. You want to vote? Dip your hand in the inkpot and vote. No citizenship checks, no voter rolls, nothing. If you can make it to any voting station, who cares where you live, you get to vote.

Lacking such a simple system, since people seem to want to allow only registered voters to vote, there needs to be some sort of check. What! You don't want the check? What a bunch of hypocrites!

Rapists get their way because they make physical threats, up to and including death, if they don't get their way. Just as with anyone who threatens to kill, it doesn't bother me much that they die. If you threaten other people, you have to expect the same in return.

I am not talking eye for an eye here. but if someone makes a credible threat to kill someone else, as far as I can see it doesn't make much difference which one dies, there will still be one dead body, and I'd rather it were the one who broke society's rules first by making the first physical threat. This applies to robbers who wave or even claim to have a gun or knife.

So no, rapists dying doesn't bother me.

It's an entirely different question as to who set up whom. But to say it is wrong for rapists to die, well, you lost me, and it puts the rest of your article in dispute too.

Like it's been said many times, polls right now are pointless since no one knows whom McCain is running against.

but aside from that, McCain is just Bush the third, and the Republicans have had seven years of incompetence and cronyism. McCain can't escape Iraq, Katrina, the economy, and the basic continual incompetence reported over the last seven years except by repudiating Bush, and he seems determined to make Bush II look like an amateur. McCain cannot win. Once the real campaigning gets started, McCain will be painting himself further and further into the corner bordered by incompetence and cronyism, and will sink further and further in the polls.

I know guns are a great vote getting tool, and that is why Democrats work so hard for gun control and Republicans work so hard to not prevent gun control -- it's a guaranteed hot button for politicians of all stripes.

But the soon to come Heller decision by the Supreme Court is going to give both sides a great excuse to drop the subject. Democrats will no longer have to pretend that gun control laws drop crime, when not only do statistics show no correlation (positive or negative) between gun control laws and crime, but they can drop the hypocrisy of claiming the slightest rise in crime is signs of the evilness of guns while drops in crime are not signs for the usefulness of guns for self-protection.

Those who really want to learn about this issue should investigate the Deacons for Defense and Justice and see how blacks used their second amendment rights to protect themselves from corrupt evil state, city, and county governments which were part and parcel of the KKK. Then look up crime statistics and see the amazing non-correlation between gun control laws and crime rates. See how Britain's violent crime rate has gone up since strict bans went into effect, and bear in mind that Britain doesn't count a killing as a homicide until there's been a successful prosecution -- see ow that skews the record. Compare DC's crime rates to when the strict gun ban went into effect (in theory but not in practice) -- watch the crime rate go up and down with no correlation. Watch Australia's suicide rate remain unchanged after a strict gun ban, with the only difference being that fewer suicides were by gun and more by knives, hanging, and other choices.

Here is your chance, Democrats. Drop the subject of gun control. Heller is going to make it real easy for you to stop wasting time pushing a divisive gun control platform which has lost you many elections. Take the hint. Stop messing with my guns, when all the stats in the world show ZERO correlation between gun control and crime, and the Deacons show every reason why government should fear its citizens rather than the other way round.

One, the video images contribute nothing to the topic -- it's about a statue, a photograph, a visual subject -- but no images of the statue, the photos, other statues -- only Alex.

Two, it cuts back and forth between closeups and farther out and you can hear the crappy audio editing. Why not just use the audio to read the script while the video shows the statue and photographs?

If this is the best you can do with videos, stick to textual entries.