Is Yahoo intentionally making it difficult for some folks to comment on Yahoo news articles?

Yes, and judging by this site, we are not alone. Yahoo has to be aware of the problem. I have been using yahoo for many years and I'm going to stop using it if it isn't fixed soon.

Yahoo is just like all of the uber-cowardly ultra-leftist media: They do not want to hear comments adverse to their views, and they especially find sickening the idea that they allow opposing views to be aired. They have realized that they are an intrinsic part of a fringe leftist minority that is under the torrential assault of all common sense institutions such as the Saudi and Egyptian governments and most Americans, and others who do not consider Obama a holly deity, and disagree with Yahoo's adored friends in ISIS and Iran with whom we are at war (i.e. Obama is allowing pinprick airstrikes and US training of a very small number Iraqi troops, which he hopes will fail. Yahoo is an institution which utterly hates the system that affords their own grotesquely wealthy ultra-capitalist monetary success, that is capitalism and the US Constitution. Yahoo strongly believes in elitism and uber-wealth for commie insiders and staunchly opposes freedom of speech with which they disagree and are ultimately of staunch Communist ideology, in which only the elitist inner sanctum of government connected politburo members and their other Yahoo-like benefactors are allowed to benefit, or even air opinion.

Started 3 years ago, still the same old left-leaning yahoo.

IF IT AIN'T BROKE, FIX IT TIL IT IS.

"Freedom of Speech" (if we let you)

LOL