Editor, Times-Union:A new strain of swine flu has this metropolis of 20 million people ...

- Xmas Greek? - Scalping Xmas Greek? Editor, Times-Union: I always thought that "Xmas" had more to do with Greek than with trying to rid Christmas of anything having to do with Jesus.I thought the X represented part of the Greek spelling/symbol for Christ.Just a thought ...I'm absolutely not trying to start a big Christmas "throw-down.

Editor, Times-Union:I am not opposed to "capitalism" which has made America a great nation.

Editor, Times-Union:For the record, my home is outside the city limits of Warsaw.

Editor, Times-Union:I would like to tell you how proud I am of my parents, Ron and Mary England.

Editor, Times-Union:I take exception to your opinion on the proposed mosque on the 9/11 site.

- License To Sin - Awesome Moment - Dental Solutions - Take Responsibility - Honest Businessmen License To Sin Editor, Times-Union: Liberals like to say Jesus Christ never condemned homosexual acts …

Editor, Times-Union:With the help of the Northern Indiana Community Foundation, a memorial fund has been established in memory of Nick Patterson.

Editor, Times-Union:Robert Rector of the Heritage Foundation has just finished a study that makes the White House plan for big increases in low-skill labor sound like a plot to bankrupt America. The study looked at households headed by high-school drop-outs. It found high school drop-outs accounted for about:

Let's get rid of all political parties. No more Republicans, no more Democrats, no more Libertarians. What I'm proposing is not a new concept. In fact, the first president of the United States, George Washington, advised in the beginning that political parties would only hurt the patriotism of this country. According to the 1992 Almanac biography on him, Washington feared that allegiance to "factions" would someday eclipse the guiding light of patriotism.After refusing a third term to be president in 1796, he warned in his farewell address against party spirit. Imagine that -Êa politician advising against political parties in an effort to put the country first. Political parties have overtaken American policies to such an extent, though, that the right thing is whatever will advance the party, not the country.If they can't help their own party, politicians make their decisions based on how they can hurt the other party.

Editor, Times-Union:My son drove down to southern Louisiana to spend some weeks helping clean up and repair some homes.

- Cost Of War - Thanks For Honor - France - Junk Mail - People In Need - No Democracy - Thanks To EMS - Voter Education Cost Of War Editor, Times-Union: Regarding recent article on Cost of War by Abigail A.Fuller. I yet mourn the loss of about 3,000 innocents on 9/11/01.We must never forget that assault on innocents. The loss of our revenue on the day far exceeded the money spent in the war with Iraq.If we are going to spend $151 billion dollars in prosecuting this war, it will save 10 times that amount; because evil terrorists will continue attacking our infrastructures if we do not respond forcefully.

Editor, Times-Union:Faye Miller calls homosexuals "homos," and calls Mallory confused - quite the contrary as her letter was very well written and lacked any malice.

Editor, Times-Union:February is National Library Lover's Month at Warsaw Community Public Library.

Editor, Times-Union:Nearly a month after Al-Qaeda launches attacks on four U.S. embassies, Obama thumps his chest, at a fundraiser in San Francisco, and declares once again: “Al-Qaeda is on its’ heels, and Bin Laden is no more.” It is a most concerning punctuation mark to  a long-running narrative, exposing a president in denial regarding his own performance, and an escalating threat of terror, nuclear war and radical Islam.

Editor, Times-Union: Be careful about entrusting your senior-citizen family members to the local hospital.  “The system” might just run away with them.

Editor, Times-Union:From their first meeting on the lawn of the Kosciusko County Court House on April 15, 2009, this group of fellow citizens have shown how you can make a difference.

Editor, Times-Union:Please, whoever is using their loud speakers to play Christmas music, as late as past midnight and very early in the morning, I beg you to turn it off, at least by 10 p.m.

Editor, Times-Union:I hadn't even "looked" at the comics for ages, but since the TV's in repair, at 5 a.m. on Dec. 28, I finally perused Wednesday's - it was hilarious!

Editor, Times-Union:Dear Senior and Parent/Guardian,As you know, we have had an unusual winter that has caused our school corporation to cancel six days of school ...

Editor, Times-Union:Attention all Big 10 football fans!As a Purdue alumni and fan, I'd like to see as many of their games as I can.

Editor, Times-Union:A little treatise.

Editor, Times-Union: Big thank you to Marjorie Vance and the concerned citizens of Kosciusko County for your steadfast work in keeping our county clean.

Editor, Times-Union:I ran across this prayer in an old Ideals magazine, and thought how appropriate it is still for today.

I've never done an in-depth study on my family background. You know, the kind of in-depth study where I find out who my great-great-great-great-grandparents were and whose theirs were and so forth and so on back down the line. In fact, I know very little about where the Slone family comes from, or for that matter, where the Collins family stems from.Collins is my mother's maiden name. I know that a twig of the Slone branch of my family tree, the twig that I stem off from, are descendants of Native Americans.At least, that's what I've been told all my life.I think the last 100 percent Native American in our family was my dad's grandmother or something along those lines. Anyhow, Slone itself is a Slavic name.It means "soldier."There are a couple of countries that almost have "Slone" in them.Slovenia and Slovakia are the closest examples.Slovenia is geographically squeezed in between Italy, Croatia and Austria.