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Meanwhile the president of the AFL-CIO, Richard Trumka, released a statement calling the closure "a microcosm of what's wrong with America, as Bain-style Wall Street vultures make themselves rich by making America poor." Bain Capital is the asset management company founded by former Republican...

Gun club takes a stance....the push back... Police barred from Vermont gun range over proposed semi-automatic rifle ban | Fox News

ok, we were talking "carb" rules in another thread...about states that make rules that effect the rest of country via interstate commerce... Manufacturers of brake pads are gearing up to meet a first-in-the-nation Washington state law requiring they phase out the use of copper and other heavy...

Read some of the comments...Like...... Give away free stuff to some people in order to get free money from other people. Excellent... NH Airport Offers $12 Flights | ABC News - Yahoo! Just in time for the end of the busy holiday season, Cape Air and a regional airport in New Hampshire...

An unarmed utopia: Japanese gun control a model for America? - San Francisco Expatriate Travel | Examiner.com Japan is a robber’s playground--if robbers actually existed. As a predominately cash-based society with an unparalleled consumerism that makes even Americans look like conservative...

U.S. election: Romney held in disdain in his home state - thestar.com The Olympic Gold reference is pretty funny....:p What loyal Democrats elsewhere call Romney’s political flip-flops, she considers triple-axel political pirouettes worthy of Olympic gold. “Long before Romney had his...

Who Owns America As the U.S. continues to rack up more than $1 trillion of new debt every year, Americans are beginning to worry about who we owe this money to and how much power our creditors have over us. According to Barry P. Bosworth, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, our two...

Here ya all go....seems police brutality is of some concern... BBC News - Apps that protect you from police brutality

Religion = childish superstitions....Love it...LOL Einstein Letter Expressing Views of God to Be Auctioned on EBay - Bloomberg Einstein Letter Expressing Views of God to Be Auctioned on EBay By Gwen Ackerman - Oct 4, 2012 4:48 AM ET Albert Einstein’s musings about God and religion...

Thousands of Millionaires Collect Unemployment - Yahoo! News While they DID pay into the fund.....something just seems wrong...can't put my finger on it... A new report shows that some 2,400 millionaires received unemployment insurance benefits during the economic downturn, a number...

Are Americans opposed to privatization of state and federal services? Being from Canada and Ontario....a whack of government workers are no more...thru privatization...postal workers, DOT, waste collection.

This is Obama's promise of transparency??? Obama Cabinet Flunks Disclosure Test With 19 in 20 Ignoring Law - Bloomberg

Face It: 2013 Is Gonna Be a Bummer - Businessweek Whether it’s Barack Obama or Mitt Romney taking the presidential oath of office in January, someone will have the misfortune of overseeing an economy that looks a lot like the one we have today: low growth, persistently high unemployment, and...

Romneys lack of foreign policy knowledge To get a sense of how tone-deaf Romney’s news conference was, consider that former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, Fox News political analyst Liz Cheney and William Kristol, the editor of the Weekly Standard, were just about the only Republicans to echo...

The only thing that matters now is to be re elected....even the GOP and T party gave in.... Uncontested Spending Bill Shows Debt Ceiling Sham - Bloomberg A year ago, Republicans cast the debt-ceiling fight as a principled economic response to unsustainable borrowing and the only way to avoid a...

Thursday, September 6, 2012, 9:11 AM EDT Rep. Steve King, who also serves as the vice chair for the House Immigration Subcommittee, has extended his support to a group of 10 ICE agents who filed a lawsuit against DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano and ICE Director John Morton over the issue of...

LOL...what is Iran going to "retailate" with?.....Canada does not need any oil....Idiots DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran accused Canada on Saturday of "hostile behavior" under Israeli and British influence after Ottawa cut diplomatic relations, and it raised the prospect of swift retaliation...

Judge Orders Ft. Hood Shooter Shaved Col. Gregory Gross, the judge presiding over Major Nidal Hasan's court-marshal, has ordered Hasan be taken from the court room and shaved. Gross had decided to have Hasan forcibly shaved last month, when the Court of Appeals stepped in and prevented...

I'll throw this one out there.....is it true or not....?? Fact Check: First Lady's False Fairy Tale of Struggle First Lady Michelle Obama’s pitch to voters last night relied on the premise that she and her husband understand what it is to struggle to make ends meet. She spoke movingly...

IMO...this cash should have been used to pay down the debt?.... Obama Releases $473 Million in Transport Funding to States | Journal of Commerce Money was set aside for appropriations between fiscal 2003 and 2006 The Obama administration on Friday made $473 million in funding originally...