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I just can't understand the NRA's reasoning. They say more guns makes our country safer. We have at least one gun for every man, woman and child in the United States and we have the highest assault rate in the world. It's just mind-boggling.

Who would have guessed, a week before New Year's when people are going to be traveling, the crooks at the oil companies raise the prices by 20 cents a gallon. They have to be the crookedest people besides our elected officials that take advantage of the working class.

The welfare rolls need to be purged, because there are a lot of people receiving welfare benefits who should not be receiving them. People evidently know how to work the system. The requirements ought to be tightened up a lot.

If Capito wants to help the miners, then she should compose a mining bill, not send a bucket of coal to the White House. We are sick of the games and gimmicks. We want adults in Congress who problem-solve and compromise.

I worked for Appalachian Power Co. in the coal mines. I also worked for Eastern Associated Coal Co. and Peabody Coal Co. Now they've transferred me to Patriot Coal Co. in my retirement and are threatening to take my benefits away. This is not only unfair, it's fraud.

Joe Manchin is racing for a shot at the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee lickety-split.

Obama was elected because 51 percent of the people are on some kind of government handout and dole. If 56 percent, or 51, were working, he never would have been elected.

The Health Department is supposed to back up the smoking regulations. Here in Elkins they're still lighting them up after 5 p.m. and weekends in the service clubs.

Mayor of St. Albans, the tree limbs are hanging over where we approach the bridge from the St. Albans side. That is a dangerous situation, and I think you should have taken care of that a long time ago.

Moose lodges internationally advertise themselves as family fraternities. Every Thursday night at the Moose lodge in Beckley, they raffle off a semiautomatic handgun or something similar. Police are taking guns off the street every day and the Moose lodge in Beckley is raffling one off every Thursday.

The one thing I will say to President Obama and any Democrat in Washington is this: Joe Manchin does not have your back; he will stab you in the back.

I say let's go over the fiscal cliff, then we can go back to tax rates that were in effect when the dearly beloved Bill Clinton was in the office and everyone thought the country was in wonderful shape. Nothing is ever said that it was a Republican, George Bush, that has been saving you so much money in your tax dollars for quite a few years.

I truly enjoyed the Christmas show that the CW had on the air Christmas Day. It was fun watching these Christmas choirs instead of having to watch the other trash on the other stations. Thank you, CW, for your show on Christmas Day.