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• Casino plans sprout in US as states seek revenue

  Sun Jan 15, 2012
  • These deals with casinos are dishonorable and won't work. Casinos siphon local money away to other areas or even to foreign countries---money that will never be spent on local goods and services.

• How to get a cosmos from nothing

  Mon Jan 9, 2012
  • I too wonder about how everything came into being. It's hair-raising. But the crucial problem with assuming the need for a "creator" is that the mere fact of creation would say absolutely nothing about the moral character of the creator.

• Giffords: Won't return to Congress till 'better'

  Mon Nov 14, 2011
  • She is an incredibly strong woman and has my total admiration. Background checks for gun purchases do need to become much more extensive. They also need to go beyond criminal checks, because Jared Loughner did not have a criminal record at the time he purchased his handgun.

• Cain on Libya: 'I got all this stuff twirling around in my head'

  Mon Nov 14, 2011
  • Partisan carping aside, Mr Cain does not appear to be well-informed on substantive issues of foreign policy. Only someone who didn't care about the country would dismiss this as unimportant. Mr Perry stumbled. Mr Cain fell flat on his face here.

• Opinion: Vatican push for adult stem cells can't neglect good science

  Sun Nov 13, 2011
  • The Catholic Church's opposition to embryonic stem cell research is incomprehensible given their own doctrine that every unbaptized baby (or embryo) that dies goes to an eternal state of "perfect natural happiness" (though unfortunately not to Heaven), whereas a vast number of those babies who …

• 'Modern Warfare 3' courts controversy with child death

  Mon Nov 7, 2011
  • We ought to be far more disturbed about innocent children and adults REALLY being killed all over the world. Not just in terrorist attacks, but by foreign powers who don't call what they're doing terrorism.

• Paper yanks essay saying the devil makes people gay

  Fri Nov 4, 2011
  • Holly LaFrance, I have a Catholic catechism, purchased in our local Catholic supply store. It very clearly states what I said, in the section on 'Mortal Sins'. It's also a mortal sin to play around with a Ouija board, or to leave the Catholic Church to join another Christian denomination.

• Paper yanks essay saying the devil makes people gay

  Fri Nov 4, 2011
  • The Catholic Church believes that teenagers can be tortured forever in Hell because they had a single sexual fantasy, or touched their bodies and liked it. Yes, these healthy, normal parts of growing up are "mortal sins" in the RC Church.

• How to predict if your marriage will last (unless it's for TV ratings)

  Wed Nov 2, 2011
  • Blame, disrespect, negativity, and personal attacks make for a very unhappy marriage. But I don't think these characteristics are "inborn".

• Do you think a woman can be single and happy?

  Tue Oct 11, 2011
  • Women who don't wish to be married in our society are free to remain single. That's good for them, especially if they're sincerely happy.