I would like to nominate the Cedar Hills golf course for a beehive. As I was driving back to my house on Memorial Day, I noticed that they had replaced all of their golf flags with American flags to honor our veterans.

• Ian Pierce,

Alpine

Yes, I am outraged to learn from Citizens Against Government Waste that our nation is plunging into debt at the rate of a million dollars a minute, and worse, the interest on the $9.1 trillion debt is $457 billion this year. Congress has lost sight of the need to serve their voters and the country. Their approval rating shows their disregard and selfishness.

Once again Chris Cannon is trying to blame others for his and other Republicans' failure to get anything done. The other night on TV he blamed the Democratically controlled Congress for our economic, gas and national debt problems. He is slow to remember he has served in Congress 12 years, of which 10 were under Republican control and six of those were under a Republican President and Republican Congress.

Re: "Orem scarier than Iraq for bicyclist." Perhaps Maj. Black should be aware that it is illegal to ride a bicycle on the sidewalk. Sidewalks are reserved for pedestrians. Bicycles are vehicles. Drivers of cars do not expect vehicular traffic to come driving off of a sidewalk. He might be safer in the future if he would obey the law and not try to blame others for his close encounters.

•Bruce L. Gross,

Pleasant Grove

As a lifelong conservative I am extremely disappointed with the Republican Party and their lack of moral governing. The Democratic Party has been out of touch with the "silent majority" since the LBJ Administration. The Democrats love of high taxes, government control of business, ardent support of immorality, and the expansion of the welfare state has been well documented.

Gas prices continue to rise and rise and rise as gas companies rake in billions in profits. The gas company monopoly rolls along crying peak oil is forcing up the prices. BS! The only thing rolling up prices is greed in conjunction with Bush doing his usual tap dance around the issue.

I think that Mike Leavitt, U.S. secretary of health and human services, is right in that shoring-up Medicare could be "the ugliest political issue the country will face." However, I think he focused too much on the political 'spin' of when the Medicare trust fund goes insolvent and on hypothetical projections of it coming apart from "inertia." Whoa. Whoa. If funding is allocated and it if is not tampered with or diverted for politicians' pet pork-barrel projects, Medicare will survive. Our country needs to have a sound monetary policy which fosters a strong and stable dollar.

Stacy Taylor states that "the science that has established the fact that the earth's climate is changing for the worse is irrefutable, making anything less than an all-out effort to slow and reverse these effects unacceptable." While the first part of this sentence is correct, the second half is misleading and naive.