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• Was the Arizona school strip search of the 13-year-old justified?

  Tue Apr 21, 2009
  • Ibuprofin is an OTC drug, hardly heroin or crack. School officials are not police. This kind of search needs to be done by police with either a search warrant or the consent of an attorney or parent representing the student. This is a school administration out of control.

• The owners of the World Trade Center site in New York have ditched the name 'Freedom Tower' for the new building replacing the Twin Towers. What do you think of the decision?

  Fri Mar 27, 2009
  • One World Trade Center shows that we can rebuild and move on. Pearl Harbor is still Pearl Harbor. Using the original name shows our defiance as much as Freedom Tower. It also minimizes the the value of the attack to those who oppose freedom.

• What are your favorite old-school Atari games?

  Thu Oct 23, 2008
  • Star Raiders, by far, for the 400. I got a trackball specifically for Centipede. Ms. Pacman and some tape shooter were my brother's favorites, and he was a software engineer for the real lunar lander, shuttle and space station. I never had my own 2600.

• Simpson goes to trial in Vegas, dogged by his past

  Thu Sep 4, 2008
  • I remember 'good' guy 'the Juice' and his 'bad' counterpart, 'the Greatest.' Boy, did I ever screw up on that one!!!!

• Natural gas cars: Clean, green, going nowhere

  Thu Aug 28, 2008
  • The new Tesla electric car gets about 220 miles/charge, has the acceleration of a Ferrari, and is almost totally silent.

• NATO-chartered chopper in Afghan crash

  Sun Aug 24, 2008
  • This is an area of Afghanistan where the Taliban and the civilian population are inextricably linked. The Afghan commander and the Taliban leader may be the same person using different names.

• NATO-chartered chopper in Afghan crash

  Sun Aug 24, 2008
  • This is an area of Afghanistan where the mix of civilian and Taliban is inextricably linked. The Taliban and AlQaida have shown that they are willing to feed false information to the coalition in order to get us to attack honest civilian targets.

• Bernanke's firefighter role to be debated at forum

  Wed Aug 20, 2008
  • Alan Greenspan's failure to crack down on the dubious lending practices not only GUARANTEED the problems we are having, they violated the basic responsibility that he had as Fed chariman. If Mr.

• Windmills split town and families

  Sat Aug 16, 2008
  • I live near another set of wind turbines in central New York, probably the same company. A friend who knows the farmers say they are quite happy with the arrangement. I have walked by the turbines on the road. I find them quite relaxing to watch.

• Bloomberg wants to tap wind for power in NYC

  Wed Aug 20, 2008
  • There are a number of ways to tap renewable energy in a city. There is one current project tapping the East River with a water turbine. Another company, Aerotecture, which is making helical wind turbines for Chicago buildings. These turbines are quiet and bird-friendly.