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1. about 8 hours ago on bacon

   Topper!

2. 2 days ago on Mike Luckovich

   Twisty. Apparently, in your alternate universe, supposition and imagination replace medical science and fact. Protecting against dangerous diseases is not quite the same as “But, since we don’t know….”

3. 3 days ago on Mike Luckovich

   Oops. This is NOT a federal versus states rights issue. It is a human rights issue. Neither the federal government nor any state government has any constitutional authority to interfere in personal decisions that are really nobody’s business but the citizen who makes the decision.

4. 3 days ago on Luann

   For some of us, this makes sense. Even though you once labeled the boxes, they no longer contain what’s labelled. After the holidays, the decorations expand so that what comes out of the boxes never fits back in(that’s why they are mislabelled). Brad’s plan simplifies all this and allows the neighbors to “just imagine how magnificently the house is decorated.”

5. 4 days ago on Clay Bennett

   You illuminated my point exactly. “The people” have rights that though not specifically granted in the Constitution or its Amendments are never the less as protected as those enumerated in the first eight amendments. And note that only after individual rights “retained by the people” are state rights mentioned. I am pretty sure that personal decisions that are not covered by Article I, section 8 would be allowed under the ninth amendment,

6. 4 days ago on Clay Bennett

   Whatever happened to the Ninth Amendment?

7. 4 days ago on Pickles

   And if there were two(or more)? That’s why you had a “Big Box O’Xmas Lights.”

8. 7 days ago on Mike Luckovich

   And defend those wives in court when a state brings criminal charges. Before Roe, some states which outlawed abortion attempted to prosecute women regardless of where they went for abortion.

9. 8 days ago on WuMo

   Parents with a contempt for “book larnin’” pass that on. And parents with genetically inherited traits which inhibit learning(or, at least, make learning difficult) also pass that on.

10. 9 days ago on Steve Benson

    I’m pretty sure “right-wing populists” is an oxymoron. I think that “Grand Old Party of nincompoops” is an example of redundancy. Though not of your party, I am saddened that Progressive Republicans are being shouted down by a very small cabal far-right, naysayer conservatives.