Why isn't it out more? Consider who would not want to make this an issue - the oil companies, and the republicans who need the fever over gas prices to feed their campaign.

But the word IS getting out - and WILL be noted when the GOP has dug a deep enough hole...

Right now, most of the news is the GOP squabbles - it's what people are tuned into right now. once the conventions happen, and the real campaign starts, facts like this will be used to best effect. Playing politics? Of course it is. That's the name of the game. And Obama knows how to play the game as well as any of the republicans. And a large part of the game is timing. Let them use up their money, make their statements, and stumble on occasion - it's just the soup before the main course.

Is that the law? I don't think so - and that's still not an issue of the cameras, it's an issue of proper enforcement of the laws.

If it is 3 seconds, than less than 3 seconds is not enough and they should get the ticket. It doesn't matter if this is seen by a cop or the camera, it is either a violation, or it isn't. The camera is simply a tool - just more evidential than the observation by a cop from a distance and angle that may not lead to the clearest view of what actually happened.

You can always tell how deep the hole they have dug is by watching how far they are willing to reach to blame someone else for whatever they see as wrong.

The price of gas is (so we are told) tied to the price of a barrel of oil - and the price of oil is not something that any President has been able to control. If it were, wouldn't it make more sense for Obama to keep the price lower than $2 a gallon?

All Romney is doing is trying to add to the illusion that he could actually bring back $2 gas...no President can do that.

What MIGHT be done to lower the price at the pump would be to do something to reduce the amount of fuel that is shipped OUT of the US by the oil companies. In 2011, the export of fuel from the US was the largest US export. Not only does that reduce the stock of gas for OUR pumps, but it ties up refineries in the US that SHOULD be producing gas for the US markets.

The facts are that the production of oil from US wells has increased under Obama. Following the needed shutdown of the Gulf, the production has increased - hopefully with more attention to safety - and new production is in the works in other non-ME areas that will lessen the impact of a risk to oil supplies from belligerent nations.

In short, if we had kept what we had when Bush was in office, we would have been in far worse shape than we are now.

You really don't see the implicit insult in this practice? ESPECIALLY for people who were murdered because of their religion?

And sometimes it is necessary to expose mindless actions.

"More sons and daughters would require a higher number of people in the military. That would have nothing to do with the TYPE of people that enter the military. "

Following the invasion of Iraq, the military had trouble meeting it's quotas - and in many cases had to lower standards to meet them. Many of our military - including a record number of National Guard troops - were placed in rotating deployments, with resulting stresses on the individual and their families that many will not easily recover from. Having more troops available would have spread this burden.

In addition, while many of those who joined the military did so to serve the country for the best reasons - but a substantial number of young people enlisted because there were no other jobs available, and many did so to get the large educational bonuses.

And, having enlisted in the 1960's, I met a lot of draftees, many of whom were of high character and intelligence and added to the value of my time in the Army. So I don't see a real threat to the makeup of the military as long as standards are kept at a rational level.

But, if more people's sons & daughters were subject to being in harm's way, they might be less eager to start wars on a whim, dragged into it by some crusader's rhetoric.

Dog ate your homework again?

One pint too far?

That...or just another deranged reactionary conservative...

Hey, it's still a free country - you choose.

Actually, judging by some of the right wing comments on this forum, 30/State sounds a bit low...