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Editor, Times-Union:

You're sure missing something, Mrs. Wheeler.

Again, that photo was not taken during the Pledge of Allegiance - it was taken during the singing of the Star Spangled Banner.

Actual video footage: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVyZpP4DZ0c&feature=related

If the patriotic police still want to arrest people, good luck you'll be busy.

The debt was 10.7 trillion without exception as of December 2008 (Wikipedia). It's not tripled?

We're a nation of all religions. Just like it says in the Constitution. Freedom of religion. Doesn't matter if they worship God, Allah, Santa Claus, Harry Potter or even Glenn Beck.

When the founders wrote the nation's constitution, they specified that "no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States." The words "Jesus Christ, Christianity, Bible, and God" are never mentioned in the Constitution, not once. The 1796 treaty with Tripoli states that the United States was "in no sense founded on the Christian religion." This treaty was written under the presidency of George Washington and signed under the presidency of John Adams. If the Christian Right extremists wish to return this country to its beginnings, so be it. It was a climate of free thought.

Check your insurance policy, Toni. Many insurance companies cover an abortion procedure, Indiana included. Protest them, they supply the money. Or maybe you should direct your attention to Republican Mitch Daniels.

America is not perfect. We've made mistakes (Bush). The Bushes are aristocrats. Fat, powdered trust-fund babies who ring little silver bells to summon their moral betters to rub their soft uncalloused feet. If you think that is apology, so be it.

It's called Kyoto Protocol. It's a protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, aimed at combating global warming, not a one-world government. Do you even know what solar flares are? What in the world does the Constitution have to do with it?

Unless you're full-blooded Indian, like my ancestors were, no one has any room to talk about immigrants.

National bankruptcy, Halliburton's revenue has increased 284 percent in war profits. The definition of treason: Dick Cheney.

Bush broke Medicare by doing nothing, he broke our economy by doing nothing, he created two wars (one justified), 10 trillion debt, he gave tax credits for the wealthy to the tune of 1.7 trillion dollars, need I go on? He broke America, now the ignorant blame Obama. Amazing how anything can become "true" through repetition.

Does the Republican policy take any responsibility for the mess we are in? Didn't think so.

The rest is not worth an intelligent response.

Problem we have in keeping a truth squad, every falsehood we correct, insurance industry and the Republicans come up with 100 more.

Stop confusing the angry Republicans with facts. Prove them wrong, they'll have to watch Fox or Limbaugh to find out how to spin it.

Please get your facts straight because some of us grow tired.

Sixteen hundred out of 6 million people at a state tea rally. Nothing to think about.

Happy Holidays.

Anthony Burchette

Warsaw, via e-mail