TAKE-HOME VEHICLES for policemen are not a right but a privilege. It is not a benefit that is guaranteed.

SO MAYOR RON is willing to pay for his take-home car. I would guess he can afford it, making more than underpaid police officers!

CHATTANOOGA NEEDS $1.4 million for take-home cars. Why not get a company to sponsor the program? Imagine hot doughnuts next to the police logo!

WE'RE DISCOVERING the dangers of riding in the gondola of a hot air balloon!

WHAT IS THE presidential speech to schoolchildren going to do? Offend the 30 percent that drop out?

IF THE health-care plan is so great, then why does it exempt the president, Congress and the Senate?

CURRENT U.S. health care is the moral equivalent of the Titanic's rich loading up the life boats while the poor in steerage drowned.

WHY IS IT that only the uninsurable, unemployed or underemployed understand the need for universal health care?

AMERICANS ARE dying for health care. The private system has failed for 60 years. Fix it now!

REPUBLICANS would cut off their noses to make Obama look bad. Perhaps it's better if they do keep their noses out of my business.

IT TOOK SEVEN days for USPS to deliver a Priority letter to business address in Atlanta. How long will it take once services are reduced?