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Hollywood is mourning the passing of Bill McKinney, the Deliverance mountain man character who immortalized the phrase, "Squeal like a pig," in his amorous pursuit of Ned Beatty. Many of us Appalachians remain convinced this movie did more harm to the virtuous image of mountain folk than all...

It's not part of American culture to eat horse meat, except for cases like the Donner Party. I heard some mention on the radio recently about legislation condoning the slaughter of horses for human consumption. I always felt horses should enjoy the same protection as cats and dogs in the...

Greg...you're really hopeless. Obama had solid Democrat majorities for the first two years after taking office. Otherwise, government takeover through socialized medicine would never have come to pass. Obama used every last bit of goodwill he might have accrued to push his signature...

Greg... you underestimate our level of disgust with Obama. We have never had a President who proved to be so divisive and so indifferent to the will of the people. Look at how Obama forced the socialized healthcare down our throats. At his direction, several wavering Senators were brazenly...

Newt reminds me of Richard Nixon. Oversized brain. Mean, nasty, tough. Imperfect, but imminently competent. Definitely right-of-center. Carries more personal baggage than a Barney Frank concubine. Some conservatives are giddy for Newt. We haven't had a real meanie in the White House since...

I have a suspicion that many of the OWS crowd are coddled children(now coddled young adults) who have come to the realization that life is hard. They will have to work hard, struggle and compete just like everyone else. Many are shocked and angered to learn their sense of entitlement was a...

I admit I do not understand the Occupy Wall Street movement. Is anyone suggesting the Occupiers should be taken seriously? Let's get to the crux of the matter. What do they want? What do they really, really want?

Proven is an adjective only. "Proven to be" is corrupted mumbo jumbo. "Proved to be" would be correct usage. Example: Dale's mastery of the English language proved to be valuable. Example: Dale's proven mastery of the English language was valuable. More to the point, "proven"...

Hope to dodge a bullet on this one... would the "smartest and best informed" use the adjective PROVEN as a verb? Is a gun fetish the prerequisite for inclusion in this manly brotherhood of bravado? Which is the greater force for good, the correct use of language or guns? Is there an inverse...

Cheri... rather than making your comments personal, why not stay on topic? The topic of this thread can be found in the first post.

A deliberately provocative hit piece purposefully timed to take a public whiz on Thanksgiving. What an awful life Eric Sharp must live as all hatred is rooted in self-loathing.

Greg... we as a nation had better learn to make peace with the immigration troubles in this country. There are perhaps 10 million people in the United States, right now, who entered illegally. They aren't leaving and we are not going to round them up. They are human beings. It is in our long...

Newt's latest approach to the immigration problem seems reasonable. Reality dictates a pathway to legal status must be found for those individuals and families who have been living in the USA for 20 or 30 years, regardless of where they came from or how they got here. By and large, at least...

Is there a surprise candidate in the GOP field? It's getting a little late to build momentum as voting in Iowa starts in less than six weeks. After Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina come quickly. Some conservative, very likely Newt, will pose as the most serious threat to Romney's ascension.

I was able to watch about 90% of last night's debate and it seemed all the candidates acquitted themselves fairly well. Surprisingly, Wolf Blitzer didn't hijack the debate with his own bias. As things stand now, it appears Mitt Romney is still slightly favored to win the GOP nomination. I...

Obama doesn't make himself available to unscripted interviews. Give him a difficult question and he would be wailing like a sinner on his first day in Hell.

At 8pm tonight, CNN will televise the latest GOP debate. I, for one, hope Newt Gingrich lights in on CNN's Wolf Blitzer like a Roman candle. Too many candidates take abuse and innuendo from these so-called debate moderators. Wolf Blitzer may be in for a surprise if he tries his junk with Newt.

With my Fords I never really experienced any wear and tear issues until after 200K miles. Somewhere between 200-300k, the serpentine belt is easily compromised, so I replace belts about every 100k miles. Ford's alternators often burn out around every 150k miles, so I generally replace...

Egypt is not a safe place for Americans to be at this time. Don't have any way of knowing whether these young men actually committed any crimes, but just being there places them in real peril. At a minimum, they were in the wrong place at the wrong time. Studying abroad probably doesn't seem...

Enough of the protesters already. Do they actually fancy themselves to be some reincarnation of the Tiananmen Square movement? A crackdown is imminent, albeit a little late. Police on horseback, truncheons, water cannon, tear gas, rubber bullets.... who knows? One thing is certain, these...