I have always been appalled the hubris expressed & displayed by President Bush. This now further confirms that supercilious attitude in defiance of reason, history and fact.

This is journalism because it describes three roadblocks that the conservatives are thinking about erecting so as to gut Universal Health Care.

What can I say that hasn’t already been said many times before now? Ignorance, excuse me, abstinence based programs are simply absurd when confronted by age appropriate, comprehensive, empirically proven sex education. This comment or opinion on the hypocrisy of Sarah Palin’s mother and on the quality of the thinking process of religious right wingers is cogent when considering the abuse religious nuts heap on us, the people of America who just want what works best for our families.

It's a gloss-over; a shiny positive look at the very few places where Bush would be missed. In all, it was a easy but boring read.

This article is superb journalism because it does a great job of summarizing the argument of both sides of the gay marriage issue. It also does a great job of destroying the Christian right’s argument against gay marriage by using common sense judgments of side by side comparisons. The so-called truths that are passed down to us from history show a world-view so removed from us in custom, law, rights and freedom of conscience that there can be no possibility of the bible being the only guide to today’s moral issues. Thusly, the Christian right’s argument fails to establish any grounds that can be used as justification for their disparagement of gay marriage.

This article is journalism at its finest. It is written with wit, truth, well balanced reasoning and finely tuned & exacting declarations of the verbal positions of both sides of this controversy. I would be proud to nominate this writer for Secretary of Health in Obama’s cabinet.

This is a very short article; apparently written to introduce one to many other articles written from various points of view about the legalization of marijuana cultivation, decriminalizing its use, ending the illogical incarceration of its users and the many other apparent advantages that can be derived from its production. Yes it’s an opinion piece based on truth, yes it’s somewhat shallow (it doesn’t have to explain everything, just point the way to the explanations) and yes I can find no reason to disagree with any of its claims or conclusions.

This is succinctly constructed without using any superfluous verbiage or pointless tangents. It is, therefore, a powerfully constructed equation which broaches questions that demand immediate answers. As voters, we need to know!

There were a few snippets of info in this that I had not gleaned from other articles. Most of this article seemed to be a rehash of stories I had already read and this very much coincides with them. The parts that I find scary are the idea that she might become the default president and that she believes in teaching the controversy broached by creationists about evolution. We simple can’t have another anti-education president and expect a healthy future for America.

This article taught me some truths I didn’t know and informed several others that I heard whispered on the fringes of legality or I had surmised because the lies didn’t match with what I had learned to be true. The sad thing is, when it comes to truth; lies backed by the bully called big money frequently wins.

The Chinese people are just as concerned about the sufferers of a catastrophe in their country as any other nation would be. Charity is often the emotional response to disaster; but transparency is what makes a charity legitimate in the eyes of the givers. One must know that one’s money is not going to end up in the pocket of an executive or finance a huge bureaucracy, in stead of taking care of the victims of said disaster. Chinese government control and/or lack of appropriate laws, appears to make transparency impossible. Because of this, one wonders exactly where the money is going.

This article is a rude awakening to the evolution of infectious diseases because of the overuse of antibiotics. Makes one think twice before going to a hospital or even shacking the hand of a friend.

To be practical, the author must follow her conscience and appose anything involving China. To be practical, Obama must be seen & heard often to win the election. Unfortunately the ethical higher self must sometimes yield to one’s baser need to get things done in the most practical way possible. It’s a balancing act that happens frequently in everyone’s lives and here it is again.

This goes hand in hand with the malfeasance at the executive level of our government. Crime tolerated in government quickly descends the power and/or economic levels all the way to the bottom of the barrel. And, it distorts every truth en rout.

WoW! Thanks for the info. Since I have no reason to dispute this article; I have to fall back on the old maxim: ‘Don’t dish it if you can’t take it.’ Looks like Cindy spoke a little too soon. Gotta think about your own past before you open your mouth Cindy.

You have to respect the MDC party's Secretary General Tendai Biti & the presumptive president of Zimbabwe, Morgan Tsvangirai for standing up against a despot who has ruined the nation’s economy, outlived his usefulness & is now applying Stalin’s tactic of starving his country into submission. I salute their bravery & pray that they oust this dictator from his illicit grandeur.

These claims by Fox News would be uproariously funny if it weren’t for the fact that there actually are people who want to believe this drivel. Yaah -- it is quite sobering to realize that people can be so rude & find succor in the telling of lies. And, while they doing so, they are truly lusting to be remembered for the hatred, bigotry, intolerance & the instability of their putrid souls. Yes folks, Fox News is a trash heap of network megalomania and a veritable font of media shame.

Yah, this is a must read! This is journalism at its best; describing the corrupt friend that the condescending & pandering aristocrat McCain wants to place in power if elected. It provides a look at one more hole in McCain’s bucket of bad jokes to be used as reasons for his candidacy. There are now so many holes in that bucket that it is looking like a sieve. There is no chance that that bucket will would enough water to quench his thirst for power. If elected, the joke will be on us.

This article scared me and I may not live long enough to watch it happen. Civilizations love to gamble and eventually loose. I’d say the odds are about 50/50 or even worse. Do you want to gamble with the future of your progeny? If not, read this article and find out the odds that may be stacked against humanity. Like every other civilization man has produced our present one may also become a victim of its own success. After reading the article; do something constructive. Your future is in your hands - NOW!

Although this is not a great example of journalism; there is no reason to dispute the action that it describes. The new evangelistic fervor that has been instilled via our military boot camps, to the exclusion of all other religions leads one to believe that our military has been corrupted by fundamentalism into betraying their sworn duty to uphold the constitution of the U.S.A and its freedom of religion clause in the Bill of Rights. They have become soldier missionaries for Christ as their proselytizing evangelical chaplains have declared they should be. To complete the picture, the upper echelon of military power have acquiesced or is actively pushing this unconstitutional stance; so I have no trouble associating this ... More »

This is about a book describing the opinions of the author. I quote from the article: “The subordinate task of managed democracy is to keep the citizenry preoccupied with peripheral and/or private conditions of human life so that they fail to focus on the widespread corruption and betrayal of the public trust.” That sounds rather accurate to me. The rest of the article was also rational and worth the one’s time.

WoW! This article is rational, dignified & easy to read and that says nothing about being meaningful, reasonable & absolutely correct. It also points out that Bush’s ‘President's Council on Bioethics’ is a stacked deck in favor of the blurring of the line of Separation between Church and State. What they’re talking about is the subversion of the Constitution. That’s a scandalously seditious thing for a president to do.

This is an intelligent revelation about the health issues that are missing from the ‘Better Health Agenda for the Americas.’ I wish it were not so; but these are shameful omissions for any supposed health improvement statement to leave out. The reality is that this article was written in an insightful, meaningful & realistic way that portrays life & health exactly as it is & describes useful ways to improve both.

This opinion piece not only has some merit, it calls in a lot of historical facts that help sharpen his point and then jabs it into the Bush bubble. Splat - one more bubble dispensed with!

This is fascinating & even titillating at times but most of all, it helps explain the differences between male & female sexual response and what sorts of things occur: before, during & after climax in both males & females.

Here is my bias: extremes of wealth and poverty cannot be reconciled with genuinely democratic politics. I've recently come to see Moyers for what he is: truly prophetic, in that he connects the dots by using truth, realistic perspective & superb rhetorical construction. Can one ask for a better journalistic performance? over the short time that I been listening to his arguments; I have never heard anything that he has said that is disagreeable to me.

This is an opinion piece with plenty of facts and videos to prove its central thesis. That being said, I’ll say: Giant corporations, including Media, own the Republican Party. So why wouldn’t AP toe the GOP line. I mean that would be like cutting the strings to your puppets.

This is an opinion piece by a deli chef, with superbly stale ingredients and only a pinch of poison. Bon apatite!

This is journalism in the sence that it offers cogent information with interesting counterpoint and does so in an abbreviated form; thus making it an easy read. Although it strays into another argument; it does so as a way of illuminating the first one very well.

This article offers many hitherto unknown aspects of the possible new uses of DNA and their potential consequences in the fostering, challenging, changing and manipulation of laws both criminal and health related.

This is not journalism, it is opinion couched in humor, irony, straight talk and superb wit. Thank goodness for Dick Cavett. He threw a wonderful curve ball at some crooked straight men and hit the correct objects of deadly inanity. He is a breath of fresh air in our national outhouse of officious language, obfuscation and deceit. I enjoyed every word of it.

This article clearly describes the history of, meaning of, colonial disruptions of and modern day reasons for the desire to return to the remembered rule of justice created under Shariah law. On the plus side it is clean, concise and comprehensive.

This article clearly differentiates between trafficking and prostitution. It also describes what is needed in the way of laws and enforcement to bring an end to trafficking and the reasons for legalizing the world’s oldest profession. I am in whole hearted agreement with every opinion in this article.

This is a well constructed multi-faceted scientific look and the mind of animals as compared to man in the realms of intelligence, memory and creativeness. As such, it is a fascinating & delightful story. It was well worth my time and I will also add it to my bookmarked del.icio.us stories.

Two of the things we need for prosperity are financial transparency in banking and regulators who know what they are doing. Well, banks have made clarity impossible and regulators are just not able to regulate because of the opaqueness of derivatives and collateralized debt obligations (CDOs). Looks to me that we better button down the hatches, a huge depression is coming and it’s going to be raining for years. Pun intended.

This is a must read. Certainly the most thought provoking & broadest overview of the world of today and the near future. The amount of information presented the clarity of the writing style and the inter-weaving of facts with highly probable emergent possibilities is remarkable for its chutzpah, foresight & reasonable thought processes.

I'm sick and tired of Neo-con, lap-dog Republicans who have defended and aided administration officials who openly champion views of governance so un-American they border on neo-fascism.

David Swanson has a commanding knowledge of the Constitutional Separation of Powers. I applaud this article.

I quote from the article: “Eugenie Scott disagrees. "There is nothing fair about teaching kids about bad science. There is nothing fair about giving kids nineteenth-century science in a twenty-first-century classroom." “