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• What part did the NPR guy get wrong? The Tea Party is racist, and too many Americans are uneducated.

  Wed Mar 9, 2011
  • Who says NPR is closing and going away? They do not need the public funding - something Schiller admitted. So stop sending them money and put it to more productive use.

• Bank that funded Scott Walker, Now Closed -- Firefighters and others withdraw all deposits.

  Fri Mar 11, 2011
  • "Closed for the afternoon" isn't quite the "closed" that is implied in the title - is that intentional misrepresentation?

• What part did the NPR guy get wrong? The Tea Party is racist, and too many Americans are uneducated.

  Wed Mar 9, 2011
  • Tea Party racist? Last I checked, budget and government intrusion were the primary driving forces and they want each to be a LOT smaller. I suspect that would - of necessity - include changes to Social Security and MedicAid that a sizeable portion of the group collect.

• Wis. governor officially cuts collective bargaining

  Wed Mar 9, 2011
  • Hmmm . . . 'bout time, really. After thirty-four years of being union - 25 in the public sector - I have seen and experienced (quite in-depth) how public unionism works: it works for the Union.

• Firearms from U.S. being used in Mexico drug violence

  Mon Dec 13, 2010
  •  Since it has already been shown numerous times that the weapons simply are not the sort you buy for personal use nor generally get from your neighborhood gun shop, where is the real reason this is coming up again?

• Firearms from U.S. being used in Mexico drug violence

  Mon Dec 13, 2010
  •  Since it has already been shown numerous times that the weapons simply are not the sort you buy for personal use nor generally get from your neighborhood gun shop, where is the real reason this is coming up again?

• (A) My response to a teabagger on Facebook

  Sat Oct 30, 2010
  • Just for fun: So you win. Taxes are gone. No taxes in the USA. You win. The federal government and all the evils that go with it are gone forever. Assuming the federal government goes entirely – but it started one heck of a lot smaller and less intrusive – and it survived.

• Obama says most job losses occurred before his economic policies took hold [Truth-o-Meter says: TRUE]

  Fri Oct 29, 2010
  • Outsourcing and the erosion of the middle class has existed for a generation - through GOP and DEM alike. Watch where the significant increases are and it will coincide with raised government and union demands, making the product uncompetitive.

• Krugman: "This is going to be terrible. In fact, future historians will probably look back at the 2010 election as a catastrophe for America, one that condemned the nation to years of political chaos and economic weakness."

  Fri Oct 29, 2010
  • Overall, I think (Bill included) that a high IQ doesn't preclude doing something dumb, or being - wrong. As for opinions and what they are like; thank you for sharing yours.

• Krugman: "This is going to be terrible. In fact, future historians will probably look back at the 2010 election as a catastrophe for America, one that condemned the nation to years of political chaos and economic weakness."

  Fri Oct 29, 2010
  • But this time, the economy will suffer more ruination at their hands Really? Things are going so well, too. Actually, it might work out that an abrupt switch at this point might work in lieu of the war that worked last time we were in this situation.