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• Fed cracks down on gift card abuses

  Tue Mar 23, 2010
  • So... most of you think it's okay for a company to collect your money and give you nothing in return?

• Calling all Viners....take the latest Pew test on general knowledge and lets see if we can beat the national average.

  Wed Feb 10, 2010
  • All 12, but I had to guess on the Christmas Bomber question and never would have gotten Yemen without multiple choice, and it took me a long time to remember that the Court has 2 female justices, not 3, because O'Conner retired from Sotomayer's current seat. Everything else I knew pretty well.

• Sarah Palin doubles down on 'death panels'

  Thu Aug 13, 2009
  • Why not both?

• Should the 22nd amendment (presidential term limit) be axed? (Poll)

  Thu Aug 13, 2009
  • Okay, how the hell are we discussing FDR's legacy without one mention of World War Two? Eisenhower might have actually ended it, but FDR was a true leader in WWII, rallying the nation and managing not to screw up the war.

• House leaders drop their plans to buy fancy jets

  Mon Aug 10, 2009
  • Does anyone know if Obama's official disaproval got the plans to build more Fighter Jets against the advice of the Pentagon scuttled? We may actually be cutting some gov't waste here.

• Pelosi, Hoyer: Protesters' behavior 'un-American'

  Mon Aug 10, 2009
  • It is a deeply American thing to do to dissent, to argue, and to debate. What is being called un-American here isn't debate but "drowning out opposing views," purposefully destroying any hope at debate or intelligent dissent and dragging our national politics down to the level of a shouting match.

• Official: Closing Gitmo prison can be done by Jan.

  Sun Aug 9, 2009
  • If the administration pulls this off by their own January deadline, it will be a major campaign promise kept. I hope they listen to themselves and get it done.

• Large Hadron Collider Fizzles - Bad Wiring May Prevent It From Ever Operating At Full Speed

  Tue Aug 4, 2009
  • Arrrrrrrrrrrrgggghhhhh!!!!!

• Clinton, 2 journalists depart NKorea for US

  Tue Aug 4, 2009
  • How did Bill Clinton do that? What did he do, walk across the border, tell Kim il-Jung he was taking two imprisoned Americans home, and walk out?

• Text of H.R. 3247: To establish a social and behavioral sciences research program at the Department of Energy, and...

  Fri Jul 31, 2009
  • Eh? How is a position to figure out how to convince people to adopt environmentally friendly technologies Orwellian? The tech doesn't do anything if people don't use it for one reason or another, figuring out those reasons and confronting them is important if improved technology is going to help …