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• U.S., Poland sign missile shield pact

  Sat Jul 3, 2010
  • Secretary Clinton has a big blind spot: we are one of those countries who are cracking down on lawful, peaceful dissent.

• Why aren't Democrats 'fired up and ready to go'?

  Fri Jun 18, 2010
  • the media are as usual simplifying things. Maybe the democrats are not euphoric because they realize that the election of a democratic president and Congress hasn't changed the power dynamics of our country.

• What do you think about the DOT's proposed rules?

  Wed Jun 2, 2010
  • It's about time that citizens get priority over the wealthy powerful corporations. They won't do anything voluntarily that cuts profits.

• Americans' wealth up for 3rd straight quarter

  Thu Mar 11, 2010
  • The article is stupid. The writer accepted the wireservice feed without any analysis. but those commenting have noticed the obvious: that the same ones who caused our financiala problems are the ones benefitting from it.

• Letterman is target of kind of jokes he tells

  Sat Oct 3, 2009
  • yawn. do I really care whether Letterman has had an affair? No. Is this going to be one more of those celebrity fluff stories that the media inflict on us in lieu of doing some real journalism?

• Unemployment rate expected to rise

  Fri Oct 2, 2009
  • What recovery? unemployment double digit and nobody hiring. bankruptcies up 41%. Everything in the media is written from the standpoint of management, not labor. All newspapers have a "Business" section--I have never heard of one that had a "Labor" section.

• Obama to push for greater Wall St. regulation

  Mon Sep 14, 2009
  • I hope that Obama has something besides words when he confronts the financial industry. Harangues aren't going to do a blessed thing, as we have already seen. As long as the bad system is intact, we are going to get more of the same.

• Dems may scale back health care ambitions

  Thu Aug 20, 2009
  • Since when have we been accepting industry propaganda as news? "Dems may scale back health care ambitions"? By an industry boilerplate factory? Don't they wish??!! and having the gall to say that the town hall demonstrations have affected the outcome! Another piece of wishful thinking.

• Do you think the United States needs health care reform?

  Tue Aug 18, 2009
  • Those who think we DON"T need health care reform are either lucky (Congress?) to have a good plan, or they profit from the current system.

• From Pa. to Ga., health protests intensify

  Wed Aug 12, 2009
  • Claire McCaskill and the following media interview with her was either incredibly naive or dishonest--or both.