Sorry, I'm a little confused. How can industry claims be debunked if they are untested? Thanks.

Just a brief query to all the participants on this thread. Have any of you considered the impact of eliminating meter readers on the people who actually read the meters? Do you keep in mind that...

That someone so profoundly ignorant is even running for President is quite scary. His ignorance approaches, but does not exceed, that of Donald Trump.

Yesterday Governor Brown signed into law AB1066 which ends overtime discrimination against farm workers. Congratulations to the United Farm Workers whose long term struggle for equality with other...

No. It's not OK that cops have been assassinated. Also, it is not OK that Philando Castile and Alton Sterling were assassinated. It is not OK that 9 people were assassinated in their church in...

I watched a good part of the Democrat debate tonight. I was impressed by Sanders unwillingness to accept incremental change at this point. He put it in terms of repairing the infrastructure of the...

I think the people who support Sanders understand that this is not a "horse race". It is less important that Sanders win the nomination than it is that his messages be widely heard, that the people...

In a world filled with horror and pain, death and destruction, sometimes beautiful things still happen.

I fully understand what you're saying, and experiencing and all of it in service of this paragraph from Whitehead's article:

More Fascism: "As a Princeton University survey indicates, our elected...

Sorry, Shandi. My comment was meant to be sarcastic. Obviously, I didn't do it very well.

On the lighter side....

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2015/11/22/1453171/-American-Fascism-Trump-Praises-Crowd-for-Beating-Up-Protester-the-new-Brownshirts

I don't know where you're getting this. The videos I've seen show lots of women and men, old and young, and many, many children. Some children traveling alone. When you say: "the refugees are...

I fully agree with this quote from Greenwald.

https://www.timemaps.com/history/middle-east-1914a

This might be a good place to start.

How about we nominate that young woman for Vice President. She seems a lot brighter and better spoken than most of the politicians running around loose.

Besides being hilariously funny, can't these people entrusted with ensuring public safety find something useful to do? Thanks for the chuckles.

What else is simply a description of what they do. Neither condoning nor condemning. Certainly not "excusing and ignoring."

Yes, you are correct. My initial message to you was over the top and ill-deserved. I apologize for having written impulsively and erroneously. Obviously, no good can come of such unskilled...

It's quite surprising to me that a small passage that was meant to be descriptive of an existing process is getting so much response. I don't think writing about how politicians and people relate to...

I don't consider these items "lies". People running for elected office say things they shouldn't say. They promise things over which they have little or no control. They don't know what conditions...

American Citizens in Chicago, to be precise. Definitely not a good thing. Interview about this on PBS earlier today.

Maybe you should check the weather reports for high, gusty winds up to 50+ mph overnight. It was forecast and then, amazingly, it actually happened. It was very noisy, branches fell out of the trees...

Enough is never enough. Rather, the word "enough" has no meaning in this context. As long as there is the possibility of increasing "market share" or profit, corporations will continue to expand...

What's the worst? What's the best?

Fleas that survive the flea killer application breed, they pass on their resistance to the poison to their offspring. So any individual does not develop immunity, the species gradually evolves to be...

Not only preserve slavery, they also wanted to expand it. When California petitioned for admission to the United States in 1849, one of the major issues was; should California be a slave or free...

Dixon, have you spoken with Sonic about this? It may be possible to retain your sonic.net e-mail even though you end your internet account with them. Also, if you have a web pager with them, you...

"CSPOA makes claim that they are being adherent to the U.S. Constitution and that first, last, and foremost, it is the local sheriffs and community police officers who have final law and protection...

Just to be clear: The hateful things that Richard Dawkins is saying is him reading e-mail messages that he received from those who hate him. It is not him expressing his own opinions. An important...

If you really want to know something about the Rothschild family, I suggest that you start with the Wikipedia entry that can be found at:...

Now, this Stephenson Billings is one scary dude!!!

Try Cheap Smog Test in Santa Rosa. It's at 1205 Petaluma Hill Road. I've been taking my cars there for 5 years now and have always been treated professionally and courteously. They charge $45 + $8...

Peacetown Jonathan. Thanks for the recognition. My attention was simply drawn to the matter of ex post facto laws, the US Constitution and applicability to lower jurisdictions. Not being a resident...

I suppose you're asking if it is fair for governments to change the laws and have the changes be effective at some point in the past. My personal opinion is that it is not fair. I would not want...

The ban on these "assault rifles" is an iffy thing in terms of whether it can be accomplished and how much good it will do. I don't believe that any program to confiscate guns will be at all...

Seems to me that the primary issue is that the dogs are being neglected, therefore they are barking to try to get the attention of whomever can change their situation. Personally, I am willing to...

While I agree with you, I know that this is not going to happen now. Not as long as the people of the United States live in fear of each other. The culture of violence is based on fear. Fear of...

Handguns are the weapon of choice in most gun-involved killings. However, high capacity magazines, or clips, are made for handguns as well as for rifles. These allow the user to expend a large...

I appreciate your article, but I want to present a differing point of view:

The NRA is not about protecting the 2nd Amendment. It is purely about promoting and protecting the business of...