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andrew-q-lam's picture
Aug.23.2012
  SAN FRANCISCO--When I was young, I used to eat food taken from a supermarket's garbage bin. We first came to America from Vietnam in the mid 70s as refugees, and my eldest brother got a job working in a supermarket across from our crowded, ramshackle apartment. Among his many chores he...
roscoe-herring's picture
Aug.23.2011
Re-set...increase consumer credit scores by "X" number of points. Many people are not buying because they can't get anything approved. Much of this has to do with bad banking and mortgage deals that went bad at no fault of the consumer. Congress should determine the number (X) perhaps based on an...
ron-nesler's picture
Jan.15.2011
The largest bureaucracy in our US government is the Department of Defense or DOD. The second largest bureaucracy in our government is the US Department of Veteran Affairs which is actually a wholely owned subsidiary of the DOD. These two bureaucracies are where the tax money goes in America....
edmund-jenks's picture
Apr.02.2010
Bubbles - Image Credit: ventrella.com Bubble, Bubble, who has the Bubble ... now? Our cultural lexicon has been inundated with the concept and effects of the "Bubble" these last few years. A Bubble is an artificially modified sustaining of an activity which has been created to...
edmund-jenks's picture
Mar.16.2010
NRCC Code Red header logo - Image Credit: NRCC.org Code Red: A call to action to save a nation Now is the time for people who wish to maintain the right to make decisions about the care used to keep healthy and alive ... to maintain one's quality of life ... to stand up, take action, and...
edmund-jenks's picture
Mar.02.2010
Barack Obama should not only try harder to kick his smoking habit, his team of doctors warned, but they also recommended 'moderation of alcohol intake'. Image Credit: Beer Conspiracy President Barack Obama is a drunk That's right - President Barack Obama is drunk on power, the power of the...
edmund-jenks's picture
Jan.21.2010
"Obama has cut the remembering-what-we-don't-like-about-Democrats stage of this process down from two to four years to about 10 months. Folks, I'm convinced that if we all work really hard, we can get it down to three months." - Ann Coulter, from "That Old Obama Magic Is Back...
edmund-jenks's picture
Jan.06.2010
Eric Odom, a conservative online organizer who played a key role in sparking the original Tea Party movement this spring, is unveiling Liberty First PAC. The goal, said Odom in an interview with TPMmuckraker, is to raise $1 million to defeat incumbents who supported health-care reform -- which he...
edmund-jenks's picture
Dec.22.2009
Sunspots and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations - There appears to be acorrelation between the rise and fall of civilizations with the riseand fall of radiation from the sun. The graph shows a long-termenvelope of sunspot activity derived from the center graph of Carbon14. More carbon 14 is...
john-braun's picture
Jul.09.2009
Is there anybody else who can't believe the words 'Second Stimulus' have been uttered by the government? Let me pose a scenario to you: You're a parent. One day, your child comes home and says, "Mom, Dad, I have this permission slip I need you to sign, but it's an emergency so I need it right...