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• US drones provoke outrage in Iraq

  Mon Jan 30, 2012
  • Hmmmm. Let me get this straight. We got our troops out of Iraq and replaced them with what are essentially soldiers of fortune... cowboys with no chain of command and no loyalties except to their very large paychecks and to their personal twisted enjoyment of mayhem.

• Geologists say Ohio quakes directly tied to fracking

  Fri Jan 6, 2012
  • ...and Texans and Oklahomans WILL continue to worship at the altar of their almight god, Big Oil.

• Geologists say Ohio quakes directly tied to fracking

  Fri Jan 6, 2012
  • Yes, because if we have learned nothing else in the last 20 years, we can be confident that all businesses, big and small, always do the right things and never ever ever do anything that would hurt the public at large.

• Geologists say Ohio quakes directly tied to fracking

  Fri Jan 6, 2012
  • When you say you support treatment of fracking water, are you referring to ALL fracking water or just the half that is retrieved and collected. What about the rest that remains underground.

• Geologists say Ohio quakes directly tied to fracking

  Fri Jan 6, 2012
  • ...and you know this because you have a PHD in plate tectonics, right? ...and you also have a PHD in biological science so you KNOW that the contamination of the water supply is also just a B.S. excuse for Al Gore to keep getting paid, right?

• Geologists say Ohio quakes directly tied to fracking

  Fri Jan 6, 2012
  • They are glossing over this fact, but the earthquakes in Central Oklahoma in November caused real and relatively major damage. Yes, it was over a small area, but people's homes were destroyed and/or made uninhabitable.

• Iraq blasts kill at least 72, raise specter of civil war

  Thu Jan 5, 2012
  • Lest we forget, thousands.... THOUSANDS... of American kids died in Iraq. Thousands more were permanently maimed there. Yet, as predicted by most real experts (and, yes, I mean BEFORE the 2003 invasion), Iraq is already devolving into civil war barely two weeks after American troops pulled out.

• Red-eye flight with toddler...and the chairman of the Federal Reserve

  Tue Nov 22, 2011
  • Just because this particular trip worked out and just because Ben Bernanke was a much nicer person than he had any reason to be given the pressure he was under, it does NOT make it right to subject an entire plane full of people trying desperately to survive a miserable red eye flight to your small …

• Stranded JetBlue pilot pleaded for help from Conn. airport

  Mon Oct 31, 2011
  • I realize that safety rules dictate that airlines can't simply unload a plane in the middle of a busy airport tarmac whenever the mood hits them.

• Stranded JetBlue pilot pleaded for help from Conn. airport

  Mon Oct 31, 2011
  • After a similarly horrific incident in Detroit several years ago, at least one person sued the airline for "kidnapping". Basically, the person claimed that he (or she... I forget if it was a man or woman) had been deprived of life and liberty by the airline.