By all accounts, they did not just die, evaporate.....they died being after being terrorized, fearing for their lives, and vainly hoping for rescue.

"why not use the money to invest in economic development opportunities in Mexico?" I thought that was one of the aims of NAFTA. No?

http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/10/did-nafta-actually-help-mex...

@ProudSoutherner:...my guess that Hillary and Obama will skate as usual. Let's hope the questioners will hone in and not grandstand...as Joe Friday said:"just the facts mam."

"Wag the Dog?"

And then there is the most recent "peaceful" May Day display in Seattle. http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/violence-mars-day-rally-seattle-19089...

"several dozen protesters, some covering their faces with bandanas, began pelting police with rocks and bottles. "

In 2008, he told us it was coming: …"when you spread the wealth around it’s good for everybody."

@Logical: and you think this: " Dipsh**s, " helps make your case?

To many of us of draft age, the Vietnam war was a meat grinder. Those of us who questioned it were not all unpatriotic, peaceniks. This wonderful country has and does make tragic mistakes....Not sorry for having questioned and opposed it, still very sorry for those who lost loved ones and those prosecuted and persecuted for their outspoke concerns.

@Jerry NeSmith: Come on Jerry, with a pen stroke, the President could even it out. A great PR coup for him. I do not see the need to explain it away or compare how well women at the White House do relative to women elsewhere. In that venue, they are not paid as well as men. Obama decries the inequality at rallies yet allows it to continue under his watch. The White House would be a great place to remove the glass ceiling. As far as I am concerned, this not a partisan issue. Would it be ok if Hillary were elected and made less that Obama or Bush?

@Used2baFreeCountry: "Qu'ils mangent de la brioche",....let THEM eat cake.

Come on Jerry, with a pen stroke, the President could even it out. A great PR coup for him. I do not see the need to explain it away or compare how well women at the White House do relative to women elsewhere. In that venue, they are not paid as well as men. Obama decries the inequality at rallies yet allows it to continue under his watch. The White House would be a great place to remove the glass ceiling. As far as I am concerned, this not a partisan issue. Would it be ok if Hillary were elected and made less that Obama or Bush?

"Obama White House pays women less than men, records show"

http://freebeacon.com/hostile-workplace/ http://swampland.time.com/2011/09/21/the-white-house-boys-club-president...

I suppose on political matters, i.e. not matters of rational thought or science, we all really just have our points of views/opinions. A profit motive does not necessarily negate the veracity of a point of view. I'm guessing that most of us here have varying backgrounds and motives...including editors.

“An expert is a fella from out of town.” -- Mark Twain

I guess the concept of buying local does not apply to "art." Athens/Georgia has enormous depth of talented artists from which to choose for these projects.

@Bellehowell: DARE....dare to keep cops off donuts:))))

The Brookings Institution whittled down a lot of analysis into three simple rules. You can avoid poverty by: 1. Graduating from high school. 2. Waiting to get married until after 21 and do not have children till after being married. 3. Having a full-time job. If you do all those three things, your chance of falling into poverty is just 2 percent. Meanwhile, you’ll have a 74 percent chance of being in the middle class.

Read more at Jacksonville.com: http://jacksonville.com/opinion/editorials/2012-01-27/story/three-rules-...

Gavin de Becker has written extensively regarding protecting ourselves and children from predators.(Protecting the Gift: Keeping Children and Teenagers Safe (and Parents Sane) http://www.amazon.com/Protecting-Gift-Keeping-Children-Teenagers/dp/0440...

Right arm!

@catman: Best candidate in 9,000 years!

That's why many of us rubes live out in the woods.

Is he saying he would not give up any information if someone squeezed him a little hard? Don't know how long I could hold out. How 'bout you? Check out the book from the man in charge of the CIA at the time: http://www.amazon.com/Hard-Measures-Aggressive-Actions-American/dp/14516...

Meanwhile, a global perspective: While some government officials were busy planning how to disarm Americans, other officials were negotiating the transfer of F-16s and Abrams tanks to Muslim Brotherhood, a terrorist group whose motto is, “The Koran is our constitution, the Prophet is our leader, Jihad is our path and death in the name of Allah is our goal."

Obama is unwilling to trust Americans with an AR-15, but is willing to trust a genocidal terrorist group with Abrams tanks and F-16 jets. (http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/disarming-americans-arming-terr...)

@keepitsimple: Being under the influence and speeding on public roads makes it everyone's business...right? Plus...he is 18. "Athens-Clarke police charged James Pentlarge Barrow, 18, with driving under the influence of drugs, possession of less than an ounce of marijuana and speeding, all misdemeanors."

Stop Dave "Just what do you think you're doing, Dave? Dave, I really think I’m entitled to an answer to that question. I know everything hasn’t been quite right with me, but I can assure you now very confidently that it’s going...