What could we possibly do to prevent such attacks? Treat every such event like a presidential visit? Bomb-sniffing dogs everywhere? Police swarming the area? All buildings on the route thoroughly searched? Every spectator searched?

We live in a free country; stuff like this is the price we pay. What is the alternative? A police state?

Terrorists can't destroy a country, they can only scare a country into destroying itself.

Don't think you can eat a lot of fish to get your Omega 3s. Most fish nowadays is contaminated with mercury.

There is a myth that the Democrats and Republicans are on the ends of some primitive spectrum, and that "moderates" are somewhere in between. This is false. Check out Glenn Greenwald's piece on Obama (http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/dec/27/vote-obama-centrist-republican), one of the many commentators pointing out that Obama is a Republican in almost all ways. The "real" Republicans have to go off the edge in order to distance themselves from Obama. I almost feel sorry for them. Almost.

I want decent healthcare reform, an end to foreign wars, everyone paying their fair share of taxes, a level playing field in the business world so capitalism can do what it does best. Neither the D's nor the R's support this.

There is no political party in America that represents my beliefs.

What better symbolism of a new year, a new beginning, than the longest night of the year, followed by new days that become slightly longer than the day before? The pagans really had it right.

Sorry about your father dying so suddenly.

Bennett Haselton is an expert in this kind of stuff, so he's sharing his expertise. Let the weapons experts share their expertise in that area. Nothing skewed about this.

Why not help people in other countries who are trying to get free speech? Would you have told those uppity American colonialists "This land is ruled by Great Britain. If you don't like it, move."?