Jim DeMint calls other lawmakers wimps, yet I see no information on his website as to how he might be the tough guy he wants to portray.

No military record, no background in law enforcement, not even a won-loss record in the local tough-man contest.

Maybe he is falling back on his rough and tumble years as a marketing executive.

That is how I would describe what transpired for my then girlfriend, now wife. I guess some men may feel somewhat empty from not having their child, but to project what life would be like with what is now a terminated pregnancy is asking for emotional baggage.

I have had some thoughts of what might have been with our potential first-born, but I have also tempered those thoughts with what would have been. A real possibility that we would have spiraled into a broken family with only one of us working and at a low-paying job at that and not even living in the same city.

We were not emotionally or fiscally able to support this life. We could have brought the fetus to term and given the baby away, but having had two children afterward, I can say that would not have been an option. We would have kept the child and tried our best to make do. It is very possible that the two children we have now would not have been born or the very least only one would have. We looked at this decision with a great deal of anquish, but as things have gone, we are sure that our decision was the best for us and the health of our relationship as a family.

I cringe at the idea that we would have had to make an even harder decision if the laws concerning abortion were not as they are today.

I think these men are being done a disservice by making them relive or imagine their lives with what might have been instead of what will be.

I find my overhead full when I get to my seat, no problem.

Ask anyone in my row if their stuff is in the bin. If they say no, then I remove offending baggage and throw it into a seat.

Then the fool who placed the bags there can come get them when the flight attendent makes an announcement that the bags are in the way of the seat ticket holder.

Or better yet, upon arrival, take the bags with me and drop them off in the concourse and let the person explain to the security people why the bags were left unattended.

Just another reason I no longer live in Oklahoma.

Tornadoes can do no more damage than the stupidity of the Oklahoma government.

One question: Who pays for the ultrasound? The woman's insurance? I don't think so, not in today's declining coverage for medically unnecessary procedures.

It seems to me, that if Newt Gingrich has his way, there will be more, not less, terroristic threats. Those coming from otherwise normal citizens who have come to a point where they feel their liberties have been taken away from them and they have little recourse but to turn to violence to recoup said liberties.

I have a nice way to deter the invasive searches…

just don't shower for several days before traveling and make sure you eat as much garlic and add to it some helpings of refried beans.

Any unwanted advances near the lower extremities would be met with some rather offensive aromas and voila, you may be on your way quicker than anybody else.

What goes around, comes around.

Or as the president might say, “what goes around, get arounder.”

Imagine that, someone had the audacity to “spy” on another person's email! Welcome to the new America and now that the cows have been let out of the barn, there's no rounding them up.

The NSA isn't the only facility where peering eyes can snoop on private citizens' correspondence. I am against the email hacking, but all for compelling someone legally to turn over correspondence that pertains to legal and fair investigations.

Each day brings new heights in hypocrisy from the blowhards on the right and the fact that they can't see the irony is priceless.

1. Sarah Palin- Did not know that Africa is a continent. Still think she is a smart woman? or just plain ignorant?

2. Camille Paglia- For a career classroom teacher, you sure know how to be a general disruption. Next time try to keep the music down while trying to enlighten the newbies to Led Zeppelin.

We hanged Japanese military members who used waterboarding against us and other countries in WWII…

so why should those guilty of the same offense be treated any differently?

Don't the airlines already depend on the government for their existence?

The FAA basically protects all things airline and the airports are built for, not by airlines. So why would those companies that already get a helping hand from the government be deserving of more handouts?

Since when do we need a prayer to inaugurate our president?

I am not looking for a time frame, but a reason.

I find it really hypocritical that we have a stated separation of church and state, yet we have this invocation for the presidential inauguration.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/23/opinion/why-libya-gave-up-on-the-bomb.html?pagewanted=all

Please refer to the link and understand that, yes Mr. Bush did help in the removal of the weapons program in Libya, but it had nothing to do with Iraq.

If you keep repeating lies, then the truths you may include in your argument shall also be dismissed.

Graham and Lieberman would like to keep the dirty laundry a secret from our society…

you mean like the German government kept Dachau, Buchenwald and Bergen-Belsen secret from the general German public?