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• Tobacco health labels violate free speech, judge rules

  Wed Feb 29, 2012
  • Pvblis: I agree that corporations should not be considered people. However, the decision-makers within a corporation are people (if only just.) Ultimately we are talking about the free speech of the "drivers" of the corporation.

• Tobacco health labels violate free speech, judge rules

  Wed Feb 29, 2012
  • Pvblis: I agree that corporations should not be considered people. However, the decision-makers within a corporation are people (if only just.) Ultimately we are talking about the free speech of the "drivers" of the corporation.

• Are you working 11 hours a day? How depressing!

  Fri Feb 17, 2012
  • In 2004, the Bush Administration changed the rules as to which employees could be considered exempt from overtime regulations. The result is what you see here. High unemployment and salaried worker burnout from having more work dumped on them.

• GM ending traditional pension for white-collar workers

  Wed Feb 15, 2012
  • Let's call this what it is: A further transfer of wealth away from working people to the "investor class." America is in trouble because people who don't produce anything think they're entitled to as much as they can get. That applies to the "Old Money Class" and the "Welfare Class" alike.

• Some blacks insist: 'I'm not African-American'

  Sun Feb 5, 2012
  • Our society continually pits poor black people against poor white people in a battle over rich peoples' scraps. Americans need to set the racial labels aside, and seek economic fairness and opportunity for everyone.

• As home prices fall, more borrowers walk away

  Mon Jan 9, 2012
  • If you don't pay your mortgage, you lose your home and your credit rating takes a hit. That's the deal you made with the bank. The bank feels no "moral obligation" beyond the contract, neither should you.

• 'Iraq War Ledger': The conflict by the numbers

  Sat Dec 17, 2011
  • With the U.S. out of the picture, it's just a matter of time until Iran begins to exert their influence over Iraq. Iran doesn't have to send soldiers halfway across the globe. Once we've lost interest, they can make their move.

• Iran claims to have downed US drone; experts question authenticity

  Thu Dec 8, 2011
  • Foreign governments get their hands on American military technology, making it necessary for defense contractors to develop newer technology at taxpayer expense. Funny how that works. The military-industrial complex marches on!

• 85-year-old woman: I was strip searched at JFK

  Sat Dec 3, 2011
  • 84 years old and strip-searched at JFK??? At her age, she's old enough to have been strip-searched by JFK.

• 40 years later, new evidence emerges in D.B. Cooper case

  Wed Nov 23, 2011
  • D.B. Cooper got away with $200,000 and we've spent millions of taxpayer dollars trying to find him. Gee, I wish the cops put this kind of effort into finding my bike.