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• GOP to attack health care law 'piece by piece'

  Sun Nov 7, 2010
  • I'm looking at the costs and enrollments of my insurance company Humana, In '08 &'09 their profits rose 61% at the same time they dropped 16,800 from their rolls. The people they dropped from coverage will wind up in the ER instead of a doctor office.

• Key U.S. allies in Iraq said to be rejoining rebels

  Sat Oct 16, 2010
  • Iraq reminds me more and more of Vietnam. It's a CIA created war for the benefit of corporate greed. Again we stuck our nose into someones business for nothing but dead soldiers and enormous debt. Ike told us about this in his farewell speech.

• Pharmacy gets $75 million fine for selling meth ingredient

  Thu Oct 14, 2010
  • They both should be fined. A store has a responsibility for what they sell. But the quantity and availability of the chemical produced falls on the company. They're guilty of greed that causes harm to countless thousands of people. That should carry some jail time for lack of executive control.

• Bush: Iraq war longer, costlier than expected

  Fri Dec 5, 2008
  • Haliburton, United Defense, and KBR amoung others had it all calculated very well. The cost of this war in lives and money has crippled this country physically, financially, and in the loss of global respect. The cost of private contractors equals our deficit.

• Bush set to relax rules protecting species

  Thu Nov 20, 2008
  • President Bush doesn't understand biology or much of anyhing other than supporting his political base and getting them even richer. The world and the environment be damned. Thank God this moron will soon be a terrible memory of our history that we and the world will try to forget.

• Tech puts JFK conspiracy theories to rest

  Thu Nov 13, 2008
  • This is a very strange time to rehash the obvious. Hasthe Military Industrial Complex decided once again to continue or create another Gulf of Tonkin. The same inner turmoil is reverberating through the halls of power.

• Christian right intensifies attacks on Obama

  Sat Oct 25, 2008
  • The politics of fear are all the Christian Right can resort to. Just like "Weapons of Mass Destruction" scared everyone into a stupid war that's now bankrupting us. You can't swift boat your way around this time for a continuing of the Bush doctrine. I don't know who's less Christian, George W.

• Bush pushes offshore drilling

  Sat Sep 6, 2008
  • More "Smoke and Mirrors" from big oils spokesman to divert attention away from getting off oil. This will not help but divert resourses away from solar and wind. technologies.

• In Maine, a laptop for every middle-schooler

  Mon Aug 4, 2008
  • The use of computers and are effective when used with other types presentations in a given area. I've used computer presentations, Laser discs, and Video tapes since the mid 90's and found them very effective when used as a reward for proper completion of the basic preparation for the materials.

• In Maine, a laptop for every middle-schooler

  Mon Aug 4, 2008
  • The covering of materials in several different formats are essential to reach the different types of learners in a classroom of 25+. Lecture, discussion, reading, writing, and computer study and hands on projects as a reward worked for me.