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Republicans have Tea Party fanatics driving people to the Democrats. But there is balance. We have anti-gun fanatics driving people to the Republicans.

To the reader saying 'no gays in the BSA.' Maybe you missed it but there have always been gays in the Boy Scouts, just like there have always been gays in every group you could possibly name. From doctors to football heroes to lawyers to our Congress and on and on.

Not only are the states with the highest divorce rates Republican states, but the states with the highest rates of sexually transmitted diseases are Republican states. Looks like the only reason most people are Republican is that they are self-centered like most others in the party.

I hear the St. Albans Shoney's will be converted to yet another Mexican place. There are six already within a 15-minute drive. Don't we have enough of these already? Bring back good old-fashioned American food.

Dick Cheney knows second-rate. He sees it in the mirror every morning.

Eric Eyre deserves an award for his dogged reporting on "Router-Gate" and Jimmy Gianato needs to be shown a route out of town.

If you watched "Fox News Sunday" and the interview with Nancy Pelosi, you know the reason our country is well on its way to even further distress. The stuttering evasiveness that she used is indicative of the way Congress is addressing our woes by kicking them down the road.

All the religions say their way is the only true way to God. Every religious person reading this believes their religion is the only true one. If so, then there are a lot of religious people who are wrong.

Seriously, those skinny jeans do not make you skinny. Turn around and look in the mirror. It is still there and now it looks gross.

I certainly understand Mr. Raese wanting another look at the contract. The language used by Drew Payne was very insulting to any West Virginian. He showed no class at all. Why change when Raese's company has been so successful?

Yes, the question is whether you've accepted Jesus as your personal savior. And if you have, the Holy Spirit will give you a deep desire to keep his commandments, one of which is to rest on the Sabbath.

Manti Te'o must love Valentine's Day. Imaginary roses are pretty cheap.

Obama is not really coming for your guns. If you think about it, what would the government do with warehouse after warehouse full of guns that had to be taken from people and then disposed of in an environmentally safe fashion? More likely, they're looking for a way to eventually get full registering and then charge annual fees for licensing.

Photo ID for gun permits is unnecessary. Yet Sheriff Rutherford wants to try to force the issue by his solitary fiat command. What about a public hearing? When does a cop ever ask for a concealed carry permit without asking for your driver's license too?

Prosecutor Plants: I know we do not know any of the reasons (since you won't tell us), however, if firing a long-time outstanding prosecutor like Ms. Akers, whom you have personally recently praised, is how you are going to do the people's business, you have lost my vote.

Our [U.S.] Postal Service stuck us with junk mail as a means to finance the system. All it did was fill up our landfills and break down our trash trucks with all those worthless catalogs.

After several years of working without a raise, I made $156 more in 2012. In the meantime, the county has raised my taxes $200. AEP wants me to pay for them to trim trees not on my property, and most of the utilities have increased except for natural gas. Where will I find the money for all these increases?

Although she is not running for any office, a Karl Rove PAC is running an ad in Kentucky against actress Ashley Judd (whose only obvious fault is being a University of Kentucky basketball fan), saying she is a "Hollywood liberal." Ms. Judd should answer this by saying, "Of course I'm a liberal. I have a brain."

I watched "Schindler's List" last night. How can anybody oppose universal gun ownership after watching stories about the Holocaust?

So violent video games make you a mass murderer yourself? Interesting, especially since I've played most of the usual suspects of "violent inspiration" (Doom, Mortal Kombat, Grand Theft Auto) and have never touched a gun in my life, let alone brought a gun to school and started shooting everything up.

Lie! The Affordable Health Care Act (Obamacare) will not cost a family of four $16,000 per year! Where did you get those numbers? What is your source of false information?

The Gazette's usually supportive of public education, so I'm a little baffled by your encouraging of the Legislature to open the door to Teach for America volunteers. How is saddling kids in difficult-to-staff schools with "volunteers" who need not even have degrees in the fields they teach an improvement over professional educators with years of study in their academic disciplines?

The million they are spending on Holly River could be used to fix up many other parks. I wonder how many 100-year-old wonderful full-sized trees will hit the sawmill because of this grand renovation. Generators or solar would go a long way.

Just love the new TV ad saying your right to sue for mismanagement of your loved ones in Kentucky nursing homes is frivolousness. The scoundrels pushing this nonsense amongst other things are roaming freely around West Virginia.

Nowhere in the book of Genesis does it say to rest on Sunday. It clearly states the seventh day. Several religions believe Saturday to be the seventh day, thereby being the Sabbath. For anyone to presume that their religion and their day of worship is the only correct day is arrogant, biased and judgmental.