The writer's mistake, basic to many of his points, is that Obama is in some way responsible for the crash of 2008, or at the least of its consequences.

If it was salary, he'd pay a rate of 35 percent.

We citizens need a choice between the ones now in office who care not at all for most of us, and those who will really consider the needs of all of us.

Generalities are meaningless. We must insist that candidates give us specifics as to all they would cut, and how much money that would save.

The Republican threat is still there - this time putting national security and defense spending into hock.

The alternative is to use that method to dispose of all the plutonium.

How odd that the blame is being affixed to the guy who came along after, with the proverbial wheelbarrow, trying to clean up the mess.

The local newspapers can do a great service in clarifying this important issue by each printing the secession document of their states.

What is ironic is that the medication is intended to reduce the risk of fractures, not increase it.

Zero growth should now be our country's goal. A shorter work week is inevitable, and this may be the time to make that step.

These are the ones a lot of hard-working Americans just voted for. Repent at leisure.

The only explanation I can come up with for the election results is that the GOP and the super-rich spread misinformation before the election.

There appears to be a sharp divide among us. The debate over health care is a good example of this divide.

Are the voters stupid enough to reward the party that brags about doing nothing other than reducing taxes on the well-off as their solution to recovery?

We will face a greater change than any other society when, not if, the world runs out of oil. We need to get started.

Other than the very well-off, who of us can be sure we will not, ourselves, hit a really rough spot and need a hand?

The indiscriminate killing by a nuke makes them totally unacceptable in today's world, except to deter first use by another.

After a hundred years of trying, we have now made health care fully available to almost all Americans. This is the first and a necessary step to achieving the kind of savings so ...

Whether deliberate or just plain stupid, Republican fiscal irresponsibility has put our nation at risk.

Your statement "bringing about a day when the country has a disastrous single payer system like Canada" is ridiculous. Victor Reilly, Aiken, S.C.