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• Is President Obama engaging in 'class warfare'?

  Mon Sep 19, 2011
  • It wouldn't be class warfare if there was an adustment based on cost of living (e.g. $250K in DC, NYC, SF, LA is a very different thing thatn $250K in St.

• GOP candidates vow to carry Tea Party banner

  Mon Sep 5, 2011
  • The problem is that the TEA (Taxed Enough Already) Party banner came about out of a return to the fiscal conservatism that defined the GOP for decades (Goldwater, Rockfeller, Reagan, Kemp, Dole, Nixon, Ford, etc.) and then got corrupted by an extremely vocal minority of religious zealots that want …

• After jobs speech dust-up, Obama agrees to change date

  Wed Aug 31, 2011
  • This is the speach that ought to have been given January 21, 2009, finally getting around to it and everything leaking out is it seeks to create more low wage and union jobs (from private investment in a government sponsored bank which seems unlikely) to appease the democratic base while doing …

• What should Obama propose to get the economy going again?

  Wed Aug 17, 2011
  •  Where was this plan January 21, 2009?   Where has it been since then?  Is it going to cost another 1.6Trillion just to create low wage blue collar jobs to replace the high wage white collar ones that have been lost since Election Day 2008?   More Americans are …

• Obama begins political counteroffensive this week

  Sun Aug 14, 2011
  •  In stead of turning everything into politics how about giving us the change we were promised 3 years ago and actually fixing the economy, eliminating the debt entirely within 10 years and creating some white collar jobs with a living wage?   After the downgrade an honoralble man …

• Report: US preps subpoenas for News Corp.

  Thu Jul 21, 2011
  • Imagine that all journalists are unethical scum, shocked 

• Obama opens bid for new term, no longer outsider

  Mon Apr 4, 2011
  •  We've added almost 6 Trillion to the national debt with 8.9Trillion more projected over the next 10 years, 10s of millions of Americans have lost their jobs, more Americans are unemployeed then EVER in history, housing values continue to be in the toilet oh and we're now fighting a war against …

• Fearful, frigid night on Chicago's Lake Shore Drive

  Wed Feb 2, 2011
  •  While the storm is horrific, even in this the mildest winter, by far, in US History, and with only 40% of the snow accumulation of last winter, it also begs many quesitons.

• Postal Service may close thousands of offices

  Mon Jan 24, 2011
  • Freeze the pension plan at the end of 2010 and all the postal services costs instantly go under control

• Italy's top bishop slams Berlusconi for scandal

  Mon Jan 24, 2011
  •  Isn't Italys top bishop The Bishop of Rome, who also has the title of Pope?  If the Pope slammed Italys PM then why didn't it get reported that way?