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• • 29 Oct 09
  • 2:08 pm

  I think this says it all regarding the value of the Nobel Prize. "I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize." Steven Wright, comedian

  Posted to Should President Barack Obama have received the Nobel Peace Prize?

• • 02 Oct 09
  • 9:30 am

  It is the private lending which is the only proper way to go. They will only lend to those with the ability to pay. (Think co-signer.) Government loans to education are a bad idea. There is no collateral — how do you repo an education? We have been receiving letters and phone calls since the early 1980s due to some student deadbeat who gave our address. I guess this also means there is no verification before lending. An additional downside is that colleges and universities have no incentive to hold down costs, since the taxpayers will pay regardless. While education is …

  Posted to The House has passed a bill that would cut private lenders out of the federal student loan system, m

• • 07 Jul 09
  • 3:08 pm

  I don't think Palin was ever a serious party candidate. Republicans knew they didn't stand a chance and McCain-Palin was a filler team with the idea of gathering a few PC points adding a woman to the ticket. The John McCain who defied the torturers in Viet Nam and who was so outspoken in the previous campaign was AWOL this time around. His claims the economy wasn't so bad, we will retrain people were repeated in the same manner as all of Bush's cookie cuttter remarks. The Democrats have caused more pain by holding fast to the bank protection Paulson set …

  Posted to Republicans: A Threat to the Republic?

• • 07 Jul 09
  • 2:56 pm

  When I wrote to the AFL/CIO in 1993 to warn that NAFTA would cost us far more than the "low-end" jobs there reply was essentially, "You mind your business and we'll mind ours." Well, my last good client left in 2004 and I was retired a few years earlier than I wanted. Now it has caught up with them. Union leadership has only cared about their own jobs — workers are on their own and had better realize it.

  Posted to Can a Union Divided Stand?

• • 01 Jul 09
  • 5:17 pm

  Cap and Trade is how Al Gore manages to keep his house operating to suit his lifestyle while he stumps for a cleaner world. This is totally stupid! Like a dieter starving himself all week and then saying, "On the weekend calories don't count."

  Posted to The House on Friday passed an energy bill that includes a carbon cap and trade system and incentives