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• Stocks start the new year with a surge of optimism

  Tue Jan 3, 2012
  • Stock prices have almost nothing to do with the real economy, which has been beaten down by the GOP campaign to bring back feudalism.

• Why we hate taxes (it's not what you think)

  Tue Dec 20, 2011
  • The wealthy do not need anything and the rest of us cannot afford to buy anything. This is badly broken. Higher taxes on the rich will help

• Romney enjoys unexpected conservative cover

  Thu Dec 15, 2011
  • Romney is the Republican John Kerry. Gingrich is just nuts--a loose cannon with looser morals. The GOP's gonna have a tough time making it to the White House with this bunch.

• How would you describe the war in Iraq?

  Thu Dec 15, 2011
  • We knew there were no WMD, we knew Hussein had nothing to do with 9/11, and we knew that toppling him would allow Iran to take over.

• Employment growth picked up speed in November; jobless rate fell to 8.6 percent

  Fri Dec 2, 2011
  • The 1-percenters have won the class war, and now the former middle class can't even afford to shop at Walmart. Welcome to the new feudalism

• Wolfgang Puck calls out Starbucks for 'terrible coffee'

  Tue Nov 29, 2011
  • Starbucks' makes their drip coffee waaaay too strong. It doesn't pack more punch, it's just sludgy.

• Cadillac, Lincoln seek to regain ground in luxury market

  Wed Nov 23, 2011
  • Audi for me. Cadillac and Mercedes need to look up "gaudy" in the dictionary and then stop doing it.

• Being too polite to your waitress may cost you money

  Thu Nov 3, 2011
  • Tipping is an incredibly poor feedback mechanism; it simply doesn't convey enough information to be instructive to anybody. A small tip could mean practically anything, from the food was cold to the waiter was rude to the customer is a cheapskate to the customer just forgot.

• Vote: Should U.S. kill citizens overseas without affording them due process?

  Fri Sep 30, 2011
  • Of course, assassination is not nearly as bad a crime as starting an unnecessary war, as W did in Iraq, but no, this was wrong.

• Is Congress coddling the super-rich, as Warren Buffett says?

  Mon Aug 15, 2011
  • The super-rich are not taking risks and creating jobs (at least not in the US). They benefit from our economy but do not improve it.