Sgt. Bowe Berdahl has been a P.O.W. in Afghanistan since June 2009. The war is over. He needs to come home to his family and begin the hard process of recovery.

At what point do Americans stop being cowboys and start saying "We need to lay down our weapons and start acting like civilized people?" The Second Amendment needs to evolve. No other "First World" nation allows their citizens to be endangered by one special interest group, such as the NRA. Ban assault weapons and get all gun sales off the internet.

forcing people to use Facebook to enter online drawings and contests. Yes, I am affected, because I do not want to use Facebook. When advertisers hold a drawing, they are required by law to include persons, regardless of purchase and by USPS as well as emails. Yet advertisers are now requiring persons to use Facebook if they want to enter contests -- from ads sent via emails! It is time to recognize the people they email, who do NOT use Facebook -- and require they allow emails to enter too. If they can use email to send the contest information, they can also allow us to use email for our entries.

american food has so much harmful things in it. please fix it. like moldy berries,

Frequently, My family and I patronize our neighborhood McDonald's Restaurant located at 18350 NE 18th Dr., NMB, FL., which persistently broadcast FOX NEWS TV in the family dining room. On several occasions, most recently 07.19.2012, I asked the store managers to broadcast a station that is neutral, non-bias and, especially, nonpolitical. I explained to them that the atmosphere should be "family friendly" for all families; in that, it should be entertaining and not politicized. Mr. Don Thompson, CEO of McDonald's Corporation, can change policies that ensure McDonald's be free of politics in the dining rooms. We are calling on him to require franchises to maintain nonpolitical practices in the dining rooms.

Yes. A bike helmet saved my life coming down city creek canyon on a bicycle and I hit an unmarked hole in the road and got launched. I flipped three times and hit my head each time.

I want States, in my case Colorado, to offer an amnesty period for Home Owners who have had improvements made on their homes without obtaining a permit to go to their city and county offices and apply for a permit retroactively. With the housing market and economy problems many people had to stay in their homes even though they would have considered moving. Because they stayed many made improvements but due to lack of money or knowledge did not obtain the proper permits. An amnesty period would allow homeowners to become compliant and include the improvements when refinancing or selling and it would also allow states to generate revenue by collecting the permit fees from sources they very likely would not be able to collect from otherwise.

We need to make sure that we get out and relect President Obama. Also Congressman Larry Kissel.

The Aurora masacre is the latest domestic terror incident-including the Columbine killings, the Virginia Tech massacre, and the Fort Hood killings-that have terrorized and affected thousands of Americans directly and indirectly. Our nation has spent billions to combat foreign terror and its perpetrators. We should focus on domestic terror and take approptiate steps to eliminate it and reduce its effects on our people.

I was horrified to learn that anyone can legally purchase military type weapons. No one needs assault weapons to defend themselves. Regardless of our right to own guns there are some things that people should not be able to buy. The 2nd amendment was never intended to preserve the rights of those whose only purpose is violence. What's next, nuclear bombs at the corner market? Stop the madness!!

In the 108th Congress, Representative Carolyn McCarthy, Democrat of New York, introduced H.R. 2038, the Assault Weapons Ban and Law Enforcement Protection Act of 2003, on May 8, 2003, before the assault weapons ban expired. It had 111 cosponsors. The bill would have renewed the assault weapons ban for an additional ten years and revise the definition of "semiautomatic assault weapon." The bill never got out of committee to come up for a floor vote and died at the end of the 108th Congress.

Aurora killings.