Islam is banned in Angola. The The now banned religion of Islam is practiced by a very small percentage of the 18.5 million inhabitants of Angola. Only about 80,000-90,000 Angolans practice Islam. Freedom of religion is recognized by all civilized nations. The world community must pressure Angola to recognize Islam and reopen mosques for prayers.

Reno Gazette Journal should stop publishing letters that deny climate change.

Many members of my family and many of my friend's family members can not afford basic medical insurance plans. Texas' elected officials, especially governor Rick Perry and SenatorTed Cruz are denying over a million Texans (more individuals than any other State in the country) access to basic health care by refusing to accept Federal funds to expand Medicaid coverage for Texas. The health and welfare of their constituents should be a top priority; not their celebrity status with the extreme right wing of the Republican Party. I urge them to implement the Medicaid expansion immediately.

We live in a Republic and laws are to be for the entire U.S.A.and all of it's Citizens and governmental entities.

Citizens Coalition for a Safe Community, 501c3, has been actively engaged since 2008 in the fight against the expansion of the Inglewood oil field in the Baldwin Hills having discovered documents that indicated hydraulic fracturing had been being used since 2002 to exploit oil and gas reserves from multiple depths at 3000 to 10,000 feet. The communities adjacent to the oil field in the Baldwin Hills and Culver City have seen the negative impacts of this expansion in drilling with structural damage to homes along with serious negative health effects such as asthma, different cancers and immune system diseases. Hydraulic fracturing will increase emissions of toxic gases by twelve fold and increase damaging seismicity and ground movement. A moratorium is needed now, "Do no more harm".

I am of the generation who remember bomb drills in elementary school, when students innocently hid under their desks. Spending billions of tax dollars on Cold War era nuclear weapons in hopes of security is just as absurd, especially at a time when Congress is cutting the federal budget. Unless we change our course, nuclear weapons and their associated costs are projected to cost U.S. citizens $640 billion during the next 10 years. I'm dead tired of seeing my tax dollars, paid by the work I do everyday as a teacher, high-jacked for weapons that have the capacity to destroy - many times over - everything I love and value. NUKES ARE NUTS! Need more food for thought and action.The declassified video included with the first article is surreal reality check! http://swampland.time.com/2013/10/31/debating-nuclear-deterrence/ http://www.wand.org/2013/11/22/a-look-into-gold-plated-waste-our-briefing-on-the-hill/ http://blogs.fas.org/security/2013/09/b61-12holland/

The Affordable Care Act is a good thing....it supports the 48 million people who can't afford or have been blocked out of health insurance. The 4 million insured who could potentially lose their current policy have the option to get another, more robust plan.

Student loan debt is a big burden for those on fixed income.Some have co-signed for children and grandchildren. debt like this put seniors in risk of extreme poverty

I have a wine shop in Manchester. I do not want to sell mass market wines. What happened to slow food, buy individual family farms, help individuals as opposed to conglomerates.

Obamacare - we need to speed up its implementation.

Very dear friends have found affordable health insurance through the Marketplace. They were "uninsurable" before. Now they are covered in spite of pre-existing conditions. It has taken a huge worry off their shoulders--the fear of losing everything they have to pay medical costs. I will gladly pay more for my health insurance premiums if it means affordable care is available to everyone. That's a "no-brainer!"

Newspapers need to stop publishing letters that deny climate change.