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• Cops: Dad dies after shielding son, 8, from barrage of bullets

  Sat Apr 7, 2012
  • Excuse me quenavere, but you ought to educate yourself before making such ridiculous claims. Since President Obama took office your gun rights have been expanded, not curtailed. So have many of the so-called Stand Your Ground laws, eg. Florida's. The gun laws in the U.S.

• Malaysia deports Saudi accused of prophet insult on Twitter

  Sun Feb 12, 2012
  • MSNBC's reporters or contributors, dateline Kuala Lumpur, won't even repeat the "blasphemy" apparently for fear of being prosecuted themselves. That is the truly scary part to me.

• US, Australian filmmakers for National Geographic die in helicopter crash

  Sun Feb 5, 2012
  • Most of us do as Thoreau described, leading "lives of quiet desperation." I suspect that these two men were doing what they loved. I hope that their families can find solace in that, especially their children. Most of us learn to late that every day counts, tomorrow could be our last.

• Police officer shot, killed by fellow officer trying to arrest him

  Sat Jan 28, 2012
  • Dear Urban Cowpie,

• Tucson survivor: Giffords 'makes me want to vomit'

  Tue Jan 10, 2012
  • Dear George,

• Blame Arctic refrigerator for mild winter so far

  Tue Dec 27, 2011
  • Yes, Wally, 1.4 degrees is a big deal. Look, I would like CC/GW to be nothing more than the normal fluctuations of an evolving planet. But, there is too much evidence that it isn't that simple. Have the climate scientists sometimes overstated the case? Probably.

• Blame Arctic refrigerator for mild winter so far

  Tue Dec 27, 2011
  • Global warming refers to the rising average temperature of Earth's atmosphere and oceans and its projected continuation.

• Blame Arctic refrigerator for mild winter so far

  Tue Dec 27, 2011
  • Ignorance is bliss. The weather extremes and unusual patterns that we have been experiencing are examples of what a warming earth will produce. Denying the existence of global warming doesn't make the science of it any less true.

• Serial killer? 3 Detroit victims worked as escorts, police say

  Tue Dec 27, 2011
  • Dear I Hate Illegal Scum and Lorah11,

• Internet scams trick vacationers with fake rentals

  Sat Dec 24, 2011
  • I've used VRBO numerous times without a hitch. If this were a VRBO listing the people would have been insured against their loss as long as they made the transaction through the site and registered it with VRBO.