Usually when the Banner-Herald publishes one of columnist Dick Yarbrough's folksy conservative takes on life and politics, it'll garner a few comments, about evenly distributed between his true-believer fans and folks he'd almost certainly call "liberal weenies."

Not so with his latest offering, a kidding look at Democratic presidential contender Hillary Clinton blaming sleep deprivation for her recent misstatement that she and daughter Chelsea were subjected to sniper fire when they landed at a Bosnian airfield in an American military aircraft during a 1996 trip to the region.

Yarbrough's column got dozens of comments on our Web site, most of them suppportive of Clinton and expressing shock that we'd run the column. In addition, I received a number of e-mails from similarly irate folks, from all around the country.

Here's a sampling, including the state from which the e-mail was sent, if that was included: