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• Bailed Out Insurance Co. Considers Joining $25B Suit Against U.S Gov’t, Unhappy With Bailout Terms

  January 8, 2013 at 4:59pm

  In reply to TDrury.

  Hey JROOK – you might be right on this. Maybe this means that we should have a very limited government that should not be handing out food stamps, loans, etc. that are costing us all money? Maybe if the government wasn’t spending so much money we could all lead better, more free lives.

• What’s All This Talk About a $1 Trillion-Dollar Platinum Coin? We Explain

  January 8, 2013 at 8:55am

  Why stop at minting 1? Why not mint one of these for each person in the US – just think of the stimulus that would provide if we each had $1 trillion to spend in our economy? It would be well worth the amount of platinum we would have to buy. We could make them from aluminum and just get them platinum plated!

• Voters Pass Ballot Measures to Legalize Recreational Marijuana Use in Two States, Initial Counts Show

  November 7, 2012 at 8:15am

  In reply to richard bensen.

  If you are buying an American made car, they most likely already have built it.

• CA City Bans Smoking Inside Multi-Family Homes, Condos & Apartments

  October 17, 2012 at 12:50pm

  In reply to Dismayed Veteran.

  Rose-Ellen – you are insane. We have rights that are given to us by God, not the government. If government can give us rights they can also take them away. Profs make too much $ because the federal government keeps increasing financial aid to students – the colleges would be stupid not to take the money and run. Cut back on student aid and tuition’s will fall – they will have to or the colleges will go out of business. Doctors make as much as they do because of all of the time they have to put in for training, not to mention it is a highly skilled profession that not everyone is capable of doing. How would you guarantee a living wage to someone? What should it be? $10/hour? $15/hour? $100/hour? Who determines it? The government cannot get anything else right, what makes you think they are smart enough to figure out what employers can afford to pay? If you are offered a job, you either accept the salary or move on to another opportunity. If the employer is not offering a wage that is acceptable to employees they will not get employees. The free market actually does work, assuming the government stays out of the way.

• D’oh! Debt-Ridden Post Office Loses $1.2 M After Printing a Billion ‘Simpsons’ Stamps

  August 22, 2012 at 1:15pm

  In reply to JUSTANOTHEROPINION.

  How about only having 1 design for your stamp? No additional setup charges, design fees, etc. Makes it easy – need more stamps, place an order. They are used to send mail, we don’t need 20 different designs to choose from!

• Decrepit: Four Years After Hosting the Beijing Olympics, This Is What China’s $40B Investment Looks Like

  July 13, 2012 at 8:35am

  In reply to jamesalm.

  I don’t know that we are being “lied to”, but I think the writer is certainly exaggerating the conditions. The pictures really don’t look that bad – just empty and unused. Ever been to a large stadium, swimming pool, etc. when they are not in use? Maybe a drained pool that is left empty for a while? Doesn’t really seem like a big deal to me.

• 12-Year-Old Sustains Gruesome Injury After Playing Dangerous ‘Salt and Ice Challenge’ Internet Fad (GRAPHIC PHOTO)

  July 2, 2012 at 8:08am

  In reply to The-Monk.

  What do you think we should ban? Salt or Ice? Maybe both – this type of danger should not exist in our homes.

• Supreme Court: ‘Obamacare’ Constitutional

  June 28, 2012 at 10:25am

  Constitutional Convention time. Whats next, I must buy a new home to keep our construction industry working???

• Portland State University Offering ‘Revolutionary Marxism’ Course — And Wait Until You See the Syllabus

  April 11, 2012 at 12:42pm

  I wonder if joining the local tea party would be an approved group?

• Load of Crap? Obama Admin Invests $5M in Cow Manure

  April 11, 2012 at 11:16am

  What about the emissions from burning manure? Isn’t burning dung a huge source of pollution in China? Seems like we are stepping backwards