There were six coin tosses, and somehow Bernie managed to lose ALL of them. What are the odds on that? This primary was a tie, and the delegates should be divided equally, not one candidate getting super-delegates, which should be eliminated from the system anyway. But the system will do anything to maintain the status quo, which means keeping Hillary.

This is what happens when a government attempts to run itself as if it were a business. The idea of running a government as if it were a business is pure nonsense. The purpose of government is to SERVE the public good. To serve. The purpose of business is to make a profit. They are the opposite of each other. We need both and we need business to be controlled by government and not the other way around. The government makes the rules under which businesses operate. However, when the government becomes involved in a PUBLIC UTILITY, the purpose of government is to SERVE the public good, not to make a profit. The moment that the "administrator" decided that he found a way to lower the cost, he should have realized that he was making a mistake. You do not sacrifice safety and health by lowering the cost of drinking water. I wonder where the "administrator" lived, was he drinking the water he provided for the people of Flint Michigan. The Governor and all his people ought to be investigated by the FBI. I smell corruption.

I smell a Rat someplace on the Clinton side.

Looks like "DISASTER CAPITALISM " has reared its ugly head in Michigan via Governor Snyder!

My reply is to both you and the caller who is very frustrated because he doesn't understand why God lets children die in war or by starvation and other dire conditions.

My response as the former Tucson Liberal Christian Examiner is this: it does not require divine intervention to put a stop to these things. God does not need to overrule human conditions when WE CAN STOP THESE THINGS OURSELVES.

The problem is not God: it is simple human priorities. Should God make food rain down from the sky when WE can do that with helicopters full of food?
We need to do our job as human beings.

Another issue is this: in question form, do we live lives of consequence? In other words, do we matter? Does what we do matter? I think obviously it does, and otherwise, if God just steps in to end one thing, BUT NOT ANOTHER, does that make us puppets?

Let's say that God makes magical food appear to feed children in Africa. But then why doesn't he cure AIDS? Why doesn't he just make everyone in the Islamic State die from a heart attack? And...why didn't he do that to keep Hitler from doing what he did?

Obviously this is a slippery slope. Christians believe that human freedom is absolute, only to be restrained by our own civil law. So if your caller would like to do something about hunger, he ought to adopt a child through a rescue organization, or donate to his local food pantry. (In an interesting turn of events, many churches in every city have food pantry giveaway programs.)

We need to elect people who put human need in priority. It's that simple.

Tony, Germany long ago adopted a mandatory course on recognizing any regulatory changes that lean toward a re-emergence of national Fascism, that course is taught in all of their public schools.

At one time we had a semi-mandated course in public schools that covered various subjects such as how our government is organized, the free election process, and the individual rights and responsibilities that our Constitution assigns to each citizen. That course was called Civics and it was eliminated in the sixties and replaced with subjects like adopting racial tolerance ! Racial tolerance is something that should have been installed in all of us by our parents and by our various religious institutions, it's clear from the ongoing struggle of Black Americans, fifty years after the signing of the equal rights amendment, that equality can not be achieved solely through government legislation and mandated propaganda in public schools. I agree with you that America is better than this because I'm old enough to remember when it really was !

The Bible doesn’t support the extreme-Right’s so-called-“Christianity’s” politics. Believers-in-Christ are to advise individuals about the Gospel {about Christ before-during-after the Cross, and currently and into eternity}. The Evangelical Right’s politicking ESTRANGES people from the truths which Believers are to spread.

Cable box fees

On Monday's show Thom mentioned monthly fees being charged by cable companies for set-top boxes; and proposals that would allow boxes to be sold by other companies rather paying a fee to the cable company. The proposal is unnecessary and doesn't really address the real problem which is cable companies ---and some ISPs--- intentionally make their equipment proprietary/encrypt signals so as to make renting one of their boxes, modems, etc.; the only game in town. And cable companies under the guise of switching to all-digital channels; claimed that their set-top boxes would be necessary because of the switch. It's nonsense; VCRs, TVs, DVRs, etc. with digital tuners; could already receive digital channels and set-top boxes were not necessary --- until the cable company encrypted their signals. Congress and the FCC could have blocked the encryption, but I'm guessing the cable companies and ISPs have them in their back pocket.

Dan, San Diego

In any society the most dangerous citizens are the ones who are allowed to amass wealth to a point where they have more power than the government itself. The will of the moneyed class/Fascists Trumps the will of the people.

The second most dangerous, and much more numerous, are those who think God is on their side regardless of how delusional and wacked out they are, ISIS being a great example.

The founders of our country recognized that throughout history this second group tended to be obsessive about forcing their beliefs on others often in a violent manner, and thus we have the the First Amendment and separation of church and state. It doesn't get anymore un-american than the impostion of ones religious belief on our government, but then again the Teapublican Party is already un-american, they support all out Fascism. What a dangerous partnership brewing.

As long as our poorly educated population maintains it inability to comprehend anything other than simple logical threads, the obvious and almost perfect parallel of today's GOP to pre WW 2 Germany remains invisible.

Fascism, taken as a filthy and scary word by our popular tabloids and media, has never been integrated, taught or understood publically.Most are afraid to use it anyway.

America is better than this but it's use of classic denial has altered Sartre's Nausea stage and will soon need more than antiemetics.

Since President Obama was elected, all the hate-mongers have felt empowered and have come out from under their rocks. We need to dis-empower them and push them back under their rocks, with crushing force.

God save America from the hate-mongers!

I agree with all you've said here, Thom. Cruz is one of the most self-serving and destructive individuals I've ever seen in "public" service. God help us if he's elected, and before we ask for God's help in that vein, let's make sure he isn't!!