And apparently Jimmie has suffered massive brain damage from the brutal attack.

The News of Cumberland County

Bridgeton, NJ

1/2/12

Oh the agony of it all, the silly season. The silly season begins roughly when an election is near and progressives ratchet up their attacks on people who don't agree with them.

Their media allies inundate voters 24/7 with a barrage of lies, misinformation, disinformation, half-truths, progressive spin, ad hominem rhetoric and besmirching accusations.

This all in an effort to try and silence Tea Party patriots and other conservatives while enthusiastically espousing the principles and ideology of Antonio Gramsci, Saul Alinsky, George Soros, Bill Ayers and Karl H. Marx.

Organized thugs, rioters, mobs, violent demonstrators and unruly protesters are the action arms of the progressive agenda. Citing their First Amendment rights, they conveniently ignore that part of the amendment that says "the right of the people peaceably to assemble." With the blessings of some elected officials they destroy and damage public and private property, dishonor our military, disrespect business owners, create health issues and trash parks, streets and walkways.

During this silly season, progressives will try to achieve their interpretation of "change" through in-your-face tactics, rancorous intimidation, threats of violence, violation of rights of other Americans and disruption of businesses while attempting to instill fear in the general public. And the media will continue to give aid and comfort to these rioters and mobs with positive spin coverage while savaging anyone who disagrees with or criticizes them.

So as we enter this 2012 silly season, those of us who are not progressives will see the lies and misinformation from the left increase dramatically as we near November. We can also expect to see increased suggestive and actual bullying tactics from organized thugs and disrupters in an attempt to deny voters their First Amendment rights.

However, patriots and conservatives must continue to take the high road in the face of such attacks. It won't be easy, but the ace we have is the majority of the American people who don't like or agree with "thuggery" of any kind.

So it is imperative that we get this "ace" to the polls in November to prevent another four years of progressive power in Washington. The gauntlet has been thrown down, and we must pick it up.

Jimmie L. Hollis

But is that news?

Boulder Daily Camera

Boulder, CO

12/22/11

I am an educated anti-GMO activist from Durango and have been following this story closely. I study GMOs on my own as a layperson because I think when this is said and done they will have turned out to be a huge environmental and health catastrophe.

Boulder just became a county of total hypocrites. Anyone with any knowledge knows that GMOs and conventional crops don't coexist. I love how Monsanto et al get their patents claiming these crops are "different," then market to the USDA and population that they are "substantially equivalent." GMOs cross-pollinate and contaminate everything and are creating rivers filled with Roundup and rains coming down with it, too.

There is no reason for GMOs to be planted on open space. Industry and lobbyists once again showed their ugly influence. What a terrible example the county commissioners are.

Julie C. Meadows

Which is one more reason we need Sir Newt to resuce us.

The Daily Reporter

Coldwater, MI

12/19/11

Fairness or freedom: President Obama says that government regulation is needed to guarantee equal opportunity. But, who decides what is fair?

For most of history warlords, czars and kings were sovereign over the land and the people who farmed it. In recent centuries revolutions have been fought to wrestle ownership from kings and to give power to the people; but, in fact, the politicians who control the government decide what is fair. Yet, in America, the Declaration of Independence and our Constitution recognized that "We the People" have a God given right to decide what we do with our property. However, in the last hundred years, liberal politicians have used health, safety and, now, fairness, as excuses to take decision-making from individual persons.

In the name of fairness, government has come to control 90 percent of all home, farm, factory, business and student loans; and, with passage of health, financial and food safety legislation, now controls health insurance, financial institution and food production. The next four years Barak Obama would have everyone paying for or dependent on government. Mitt Romney accepts the rationale for control and wants to manage government better. But, just changing politicians and policies is not enough; the politics and philosophy of governing has to change. Newt Gingrich reformed welfare, cut capital gains taxes and balanced the budget; and, he would transform government if he had the help of a conservative Congress and a vigilant citizenry.

Michael McCarthy

Bank of all of America was unfaithful to him.

Christian Science Monitor

Boston, MA

12/19/11

Ben Von Klemperer's commentary, "My story of divorcing ... my bank" (Nov. 28), is a tale I can relate to.

Back in 1987 I met this wonderful bank. We were introduced through the American Society of Civil Engineers. She had a marvelous credit-card arrangement, and as the years passed our relationship blossomed with the addition of several CDs.

Then, in 2006, I got a notice that my friendly bank had been seduced by someone who wanted to become the bank of all of America. Only later did I discover that my infant CDs were sent somewhere in New Hampshire even though I was living in California.

Not only that, but my visitation rights were sharply curtailed since my local branch was on an entirely separate computer system from the one where my CDs were located and the computers were not allowed to talk to each other.

Now that the CDs have grown up and matured, the divorce papers have been finalized, and I have found a much more compatible banking partner.

M. Scott MacCalden Jr.

Adel, OR

Self-destruct mechanism not engaged for fear of injuring pilot.

The Queens Gazette

Queens, NY

12/21/11

A U.S. military drone was captured by Iran. It's completely intact, which means that all of its technology will be able to be studied and ultimately used by Iran.

The military is to blame, in part. They should've equipped the drone with an explosive that could have been detonated, either manually or automatically, in the event that it went down. That seems like something that could've been managed easily enough.

Drones are unmanned. So there would be no immediate concern for the safety of pilots in equipping the unmanned spy plane with an explosive. If that wasn't feasible for some reason, other options might have been employed.

The drone is one of the United States' most sophisticated means of surveillance. Now that technology is in enemy hands due to a lack of foresight as it seems.

Ken Klinger

And a X#**#! science it is.

The Des Moines Register

Des Moines, IO

12/20/11

Swearing as pain relief is front page news ("Study Says Some People Swear By This Pain Remedy," Dec. 10)?

Only 67 people in the study?

This is science?

My opinion: X#**#+XZ#.

Hmmm. Saying that makes me feel better.

— Janet Metcalf,

Congress wants to downsize U.S. citizens' rights to a more managable Syrian level.

The Durango Herald

Durango, CO

12/20/11

he America we all believed in so worshipfully as school kids is changing rapidly for the worse. Both houses of Congress have passed legislation that will allow our government to arrest and jail U.S. citizens and others, indefinitely, and without the benefit of a trial of peers. If the U.S. government suspects that you are providing the least support for someone it deems a "terrorist," you will be jailed without a hearing and, possibly, without cause.

This is termed a "temporary" measure to be in effect until the open-ended War on Terror is completed. But this is no war in the usual sense of the word – it will never end as long as it is useful to those in power. Among other former citizens' rights, our government has used this "war" on terror to reduce our expectations of privacy in our private communications. Now that has expanded so it can arrest and imprison on a mere suspicion of wrong-doing.

I say that every senator and every representative who voted for this travesty should be removed from office immediately for violating their oaths of office. They swore to uphold the U.S. Constitution. With this proposed law, they have mangled it. For now, the president has promised to veto this hideous, anti-American legislation. That's good, but it's not enough. Only we citizens can put an end to this paranoia that threatens our democracy by responding with our brains and not our emotions. We should begin by electing representatives who believe in the strength of the institutions of our unique government. "Anti-government" elected officials are an idiocy that we can no longer afford.

Bin Laden and his ilk will have truly defeated us if we continue to abandon all of our principles in a pathetic scramble for "security."

Larry A. Bollinger