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• 'If you had a pulse, we gave you a loan'

  Tue Jan 26, 2010
  • Things went wrong at so many levels here.

• 'If you had a pulse, we gave you a loan'

  Tue Jan 26, 2010
  • Consumer protection laws are built around the idea that a transaction is assumed to be beneficial to the consumer as long as there is no fraud. In other words, as long as the consumer knows all of the details, and those details are followed.

• Police chief decapitated in northern Mexico town

  Fri Mar 26, 2010
  • Marijuana is part of the story. It does provide a good chunk of funding for the cartels. The legalization of marijuana seems like a matter of timing at this point, but I think very few would support the legalization of hard drugs.

• Kansas City wants to close half its public schools

  Sun Mar 7, 2010
  • When a system designed to serve 75,000 students is serving only 18,000, it is definitely time to close some schools.

• Lufthansa nixes 800 flights as pilots strike

  Mon Feb 22, 2010
  • I feel sorry for the airlines and the passengers. The airlines are losing billions, but at the first sign of trying to cut costs some union or other goes on strike, causing them to lose even more. Then they have to cut costs even more, causing all the other unions to strike.

• Do you think a virtual fence is an effective way to patrol our border with Mexico?

  Wed Feb 3, 2010
  • The reason Americans don't want to do those jobs is because they pay $4 an hour. The reason those jobs pay $4 an hour is because there are so many illegal immigrants trying to get those jobs that they have bid down the price of unskilled labor.

• Do you think a virtual fence is an effective way to patrol our border with Mexico?

  Wed Feb 3, 2010
  • Yes, it is true that many from Mexico would like to come here. A poll conducted in Mexico about a year ago reported that a little more than half of the people there would like to move to the U.S.

• Kids make gains in reading, math test scores

  Tue Apr 28, 2009
  • I'm certainly glad that our schools are making progress, who wouldn't be.  But this article seems to demonstrate once again the bias of msnbc.  If NCLB had been Obama's program this article would have made the headlines with reporters falling over themselves to remind us that we …

• Best PC games of 2008

  Mon Dec 8, 2008
  • I liked the list but I have a suggestion.  Many computers these days will run all of the games out there but some will not.  My computer is two years old and has integrated graphics so I can't run Far Cry 2 or Call of Duty.  In a review that seems aimed at non-hardcore …

• American, Delta drop out of safety program

  Fri Dec 5, 2008
  • "We will not accept any process that labels our pilots as reckless, and discipline for inadvertent safety events must stop," union official Kevin Cornwell said at the time.