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Cancer Up Close
Tweet Share on Facebook November 20, 2008 Comment (7)My two young sons and I spent months walking by the poster-size U.S.News & World Report magazine covers declaring Johns Hopkins as the best hospital while my husband was being treated there for malignant chondrosarcoma in 2004. Despite the efforts of the "best" doctors, Saúl Murcia died in 2005 when our sons were 8 and 9. A year later, the mother of two boys the same age in our small, rural Pennsylvania church also died of cancer. I wept when I read the cover story "Breaking Cancers Code" [November 3-10]. I was happy for Louise Cooper and her good fortune in being able to hike in Antarctica thanks to state-of-the-art breast cancer treatment that saved her life. But I'm tired of reading of the rah-rah tone of coverage of the progress in cancer treatment. Cancer still kills a lot of people who remain anonymous amid the cheerleading.
Rebecca Thatcher Murcia, Akron, Pa.
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Prop 8 Controversy Continues
Tweet Share on Facebook November 19, 2008 Comment (24)The major problem I see with this push to the courts is that it comes AFTER the vote ["Same-Sex Marriage Likely Headed to Courts in California," usnews.com]. If the whole idea of the vote was wrong, then why not challenge the process BEFORE it came to vote? In addition, I don't agree with demonstrations and threats of vandalism or violence in the first place. The whole thing seems like a sore loser's reaction to me. If you really are trying to encourage acceptance and equal rights, why act like 5 year olds who lost a game of kickball? Pick yourselves up and move on. Better yet, challenge the rules of the game before you start playing or at least during the game and not after.
Comment by Sebastian Patterson of AZ
Religion is separate from government for a reason. The framers of the Constitution did not want to have religion overseeing government authority. This becomes evident when the [state] Supreme Court overturned the ban on gay marriage, and they went around the ruling by putting it on the ballot. Our government cannot let this stand. It is disrespectful to the decisions they make on behalf of the Constitution. If I were the judges on the Supreme Court, I would be very concerned.
Comment by Cindy Souza of CA
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Reader Comment of the Day
Tweet Share on Facebook November 19, 2008 Comment (2)The GOP should adopt a few of the tactics that helped Obama succeed in the election. He embraced the youth of this country in numerous ways, including the use of online engagement to encourage them to get out and vote.
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Reader Comment of the Day
Tweet Share on Facebook November 19, 2008 Comment (2)The press, amateur bloggers, etc. may control that pendulum between educating and informed feedback, or spinning and misled opinion, because the politicians only control the messages they send; the press, and increasingly the amateur Internet communicators, control what we "hear."
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American Auto Industry Crisis
Tweet Share on Facebook November 18, 2008 Comment (18)I'm not sure why you initially blamed this on "aging factories, inflexible unions, and shoddy quality" ["10 Cars That Sank Detroit," usnews.com]. These are symptoms of bad management. I don't know who American car makers are trying to market to, but over the last 25 years it sure hasn't been me. Even today, small, fuel-efficient American cars seem to be marketed primarily to college students and other first-time buyers. The rest of the small-car market is completely ignored.
Comment by James of CO
Bankruptcy will not result in the elimination of GM. It will result in a complete restructuring of the company. In the end, they will be a smaller and more effective company. The difference between bankruptcy and bailout is that in a bankruptcy, it is the owners, venders, creditors, and employees that "pay the price." In a bailout, it is the taxpayers that "pay the price." Another difference—bankruptcy may solve the problem, and a bailout will postpone the problem.
Comment by Richard Greer of IA
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Reader Comment of the Day
Tweet Share on Facebook November 17, 2008 Comment (2)This disgusting Wall Street situation has destroyed all of our concepts of retirement, investing for the future, and damaged most of our assumptions regarding the integrity of all financial institutions. This election was a rejection of the Free Enterprise system as we have come to know it, and a signal that we want any remnant of laissez faire destroyed.
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Reader Comment of the Day
Tweet Share on Facebook November 14, 2008 Comment (3)It is definitely a good sign that he [President-elect Obama] is not all in the camera. He is actually BUSY. I hope that translates into the sort of policies that we need to rebuild this country's integrity and make it strong again.
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Reader Comment of the Day
Tweet Share on Facebook November 14, 2008 CommentIt is definitely a good sign that he [President-elect Obama] is not all in the camera. He is actually BUSY. I hope that translates into the sort of policies that we need to rebuild this country's integrity and make it strong again.
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Debating Obama's Road Ahead
Tweet Share on Facebook November 14, 2008 Comment (5)I agree with [James] Pethokoukis 100 percent ["Why Obama Looks Like a One Termer," usnews.com]. This is specifically why I think it was in the best interest of the Republican Party to lose this election in order to gain congressional seats in 2010 and then the White House in 2012. I believe that McCain lost on purpose. Think about it. Could [John] McCain have run such a bad campaign by accident? With pros out there like [Dick] Morris and [Karl] Rove to help, why would McCain listen to a bunch of knuckleheads? Why not go after Obama's associations, record, economic plan, job creation plan? When the campaign was surprisingly energized by [Sarah] Palin, McCain put it on hold to back a bailout that everyone hated. Joe the Plumber helped at the end, but Palin's wardrobe (leaked by a McCain insider) helped muddy the waters. We will gain some seats in 2010 and some more in 2012. We'll also have a conservative Republican in the White House in 2012, not a Reagan Democrat that likes to reach across the aisle.
Comment by Jim C. of DE
My fellow Republicans: I'm not a huge Obama fan, but many of your responses to this article, regardless of their merit, are proof positive of the intellectual laziness that has become commonplace in our party. Do you really think the "MSM" can hide the state of the economy from the American people? Do you really think we will have a Marxist dictatorship in power within the next 4 years? This stuff reeks of paranoia and irrationality. Man up and face—or better yet read—facts instead of showing just how crazy our lunatic fringe is. This is the kind of behavior I used to associate with the Democrats.
Comment by Tom of IN
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Two Terms to a Turnaround
Tweet Share on Facebook November 14, 2008 CommentIt will take a generation—maybe two—to repair the damage to America caused by the Bush administration and its unfettered application of failed Republican philosophies ["Barack Obama a 1-Term President? Not So Fast," usnews.com]. From the economy to foreign policy to trade agreements to energy policy to the environment...complete disasters...as was entirely predictable based on past Republican administrations and Bush/Cheney's loyalties and lack of intelligence. At least the ruined reputation of the United States among the peoples of the world has already been improved 1,000 percent by Obama's election, and that makes us much safer than we were two weeks ago. President Obama will merely begin the long climb back to greatness. It will take him two terms. Then it will take two more eight-year Democratic administrations to complete the job. By then, if Americans are lucky, the failed GOP will be long extinct and deservedly dumped into the dustbin of history.
Comment by Jack of CA
When George Bush came to office in 2001, he inherited a strong economy. The United States basically knew respect from other countries. Two terms later, the world knows the verdict on this political fraud. Thousands of Americans and Iraqis are dead because of this man and his tinhorn friends. The American economy is in shambles. The American reputation for leadership and fair play in world politics—-developed because of good Democratic and Republican policies—-is a distant memory. This is what President-elect Obama has inherited. One term only, Mr. Pethokoukis? President Obama is going to need two terms just to start the rebuilding project for our international reputation because of the damage done by the rank amateur from Texas.
Comment by Will Snyder of MI
