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The opportunity to create a better, stronger, and more affordable health-care system is a dream come true for many Americans; however, I am dismayed by the travesty the Senate has created instead. Watching politicians trade items on the bill like cards in a game has left the average person in a worse position and resulted […]

We prefer the single-payer option. Make it Medicare for everybody. Medicare works very well for us. We need, at the very least, a public option. Without competition, health-care costs will just continue to escalate and break the plan. We do not want restrictions on women’s health care. Tax the wealthier citizens. If this cannot be […]

Global warming is inevitable whether we think it’s caused by human activity as the greenies believe or not. It is one of the many changes constantly taking place on our planet. Instead of spending billions on reducing greenhouse gasses and asking poor countries to not use fossil fuels—and thereby have millions of people die of […]

Leaving New York City in my adult life has brought me great appreciation for the Earth’s natural resources, and also the distressing realization of their rapid disappearance. Along interstates across the United States, strip malls and tract homes have paved over fertile farmland and wilderness, in the process displacing or killing plants and animals who […]

I make no apology for accusing liberals of being wrong-headed. They ignore the facts, defy logic, and display little common sense. One Obamacare supporter writes, “With government already providing health care access to our elderly, veterans, children, destitute, and Native Americans, providing access to those remaining could not be properly be called a government takeover.” […]

Your article on Walmart (“Lompoc activists look to block Walmart expansion,” Dec. 24) is another case of one-sided journalism. You should have sought other opinions instead of one-sided NPR journalism. I want to rebut the comments of that union “weenie” Bob Cuthbert. No one objected when Vons and Albertsons expanded by 50 percent years ago […]