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• Boehner announces deal with Reid on end to payroll tax impasse

  Thu Dec 22, 2011
  • @AP--That solvent SS trust fund is full of IOUs, not money. The payroll tax cut means that there is less money being taken to pay for the present SS recipients' benefits so more money must be borrowed to make the payments unless federal spending is cut somewhere else.

• Digging for gold, children work in harsh conditions, paid with bags of dirt

  Mon Dec 5, 2011
  • @MireV03: My first employment experience with unions was in the 1970's. Though they were getting a bit sloppy at the time, they still policed their ranks themselves making sure the people doing the job knew their craft and put in a decent day's work--at least at the place I was working.

• Final victims of Afghanistan attack named

  Mon Aug 9, 2010
  • Sully Both valid comments and good points.

• Woman in HP scandal ‘surprised and saddened’

  Sun Aug 8, 2010
  • jml19621--If I am not mistaken, the Democrats controlled Congress for six years of GWB's administration.

• With the U.S. ending major combat operations in Iraq, do you think the war has been worth the effort?

  Mon Aug 2, 2010
  • We had no legitimate reason to invade Iraq. We engaged in nation-building but have left Iraq ripe for Iranian take over. We created a monst

• Firm has powerful pipe dream

  Wed Jul 8, 2009
  • This will only be worthwhile in water pipelines flowing from sources in higher elevations to lower elevations. If a turbine is put into a pumped pipeline, it will take more pump energy to combat the increased pressure drop than the turbine will make due to the losses in the turbine.

• Should Congress pass the climate and energy bill before it?

  Fri Jun 26, 2009
  • This bill is misguided and will further decimate our economy at this time. The money given as economic stimulus should have gone into programs to optimize photovoltaic cell production and to help folks put solar shingles and solar tiles on their roofs.

• Swine flu flare-up? NYC closes three schools

  Thu May 14, 2009
  • I recall seeing a news story on 30APR or 01MAY about flights arriving into Mexico city virtually empty but leaving full because Cinco d Mayo was coming up.