IF MR. ROMNEY BECOMES THE REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE FOR THE PRESIDENCY, HIS FULL NAME, WILLARD MITT ROMNEY, SHOULD APPEAR ON THE BALLOT.

The North Carolina legislature is prepared to legalize fracking, a practice that is known to create earth tremors. The Shearon Harris nuclear plant is less than 15 miles from proposed fracking sites in Chatham County. And on January 22, 2010 officials at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced that the electrical generator from the damaged Unit 2 reactor at Three Mile Island will be used at Shearon Harris. So, not only does the NC legislature want to approve fracking near the population centers of Raleigh, Durham, Cary and Chapel Hill, it risks water contamination, methane gas pollution and destruction of roadways that will carry thousands of truckloads of chemicals and water to pump millions of gallons deep into the earth. We must stop this insanity.

The USA invaded Iraq on lies. We also invaded Afghanistan to get the 9/11 culprits but we have stayed for ten years and changed the mission repeatedly. The Afghanistan occupation is costing us about $2 billion per week. Meanwhile, we have some in Congress willing to cut from the people with no cuts from war and military.

The article in Maxim magazine about how to "cure" a feminist by turning her into "an actual girl" is highly insulting and promotes sexist actions by encouraging men to pretend they care about women's issues in order to date or objectify a woman.The photos show a "feminist" going from casual clothing to wearing underwear as "an actual girl". This mentality is harmful to both men and women as it continues to express the idea that women exist for the pleasure of men and that real issues that affect women on a daily basis have nothing to do with men. This line of thought creates and sustains an unsafe environment for women and Maxim should immediately address the irresponsibility of printing such an article.

The Republician Congress in 2006 passed a law that required the USPS to pre-fund it's pension fund for 75 years in a 5 year time frame. This outrageous law will cause the loss of over 200,000 middle class jobs, 20% of whom are vets. No tax dollars go to funding the USPS.

This will help decrease our national debt. They need to look at themselves as the ones that are causing some of the debt problems.

Religious organizations do not pay taxes because as most of us agree they are seen as doing good in the community. However, when they use their status to have influence and effect or change our political system, then they shoud be treated no different then the rest of us. If they choose to do that, then they should give up their tax exempt status.

American women should have choices. Of course they should be able to choose to stay at home and raise their families, and hopefully those who have this desire also have the economic means to do so. But American women should also be able to choose, with their doctors, to terminate a pregnancy, legally under our Constitution. American women should be able to choose to take oral contraceptives and have them covered under their insurance. An American woman should be able to choose her life partner and marry him OR her, and receive all the rights and benefits of the federal government. American women should have choices in all areas of their lives.

I'm writing this to draw awareness to anal cancer it's much needed it's on the rise, I'm a grateful survivor.

The Norquist Pledge has signatures of 90% of our republican representatives and even a few democrats have signed it. Although it has been around for a long time, the general public has not been educated as to how it really works. The Anti-Norquist Pledge has the right idea but it is not getting to the general public fast enough.

Why don't churches, synagogues, mosques etc. pay property and income taxes? I think they should as they use services and infrastructure that taxpayers pay for. I believe this would go a long way towards reducing our national debt.

If you remember the failure of the prohibition on alcohol, and consider the useless millions and the blood spent on this "war", you know these resources could be far better spent.