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• Supreme Court expresses skepticism over constitutionality of health care mandate

  Tue Mar 27, 2012
  • It is amazing to listen to the arguments. No matter what side you are on, the lawyers and the justices are incredibly smart and capable people. The arguments and questions are brilliant give and take, very unlike the congressional and candidate debate on the issue.

• Who'll get hit by a falling satellite?

  Fri Sep 9, 2011
  • The odds of getting hit are 50%. Either you get hit or you don't.

• Scientists balk at telescope bailout

  Fri Sep 9, 2011
  • Science and learning who we are and where we came from goes beyond dollars and cents. With the end of the shuttle, we transition to unmanned exploration. This project is important. By all means, hold the spenders to account, but do not kill the project.

• Cliff Robertson remembered

  Sat Sep 10, 2011
  • "Charly"is a movie that stays with me over 40 years after first viewing it. Robertson was class incarnate as both the mentally disable Charly and as the genius he briefly became. A loss to the film industry.

• At CIA, Petraeus taking up top spy post

  Tue Sep 6, 2011
  • Good luck to a fine American.

• Romney jobs plan: cut taxes, slap China, drill oil

  Tue Sep 6, 2011
  • Not much in the way of new or bold ideas here.........

• Working-age poor population highest since '60s

  Tue Sep 6, 2011
  • Poverty is not a matter of ideology. Someone who makes $11,000 is poor, plain and simple. regardless of whether they have a freezer or a color TV. It is a national shame when we seek to blame or forget those who are truly needy.

• BofA reorganization leaves two top execs out

  Tue Sep 6, 2011
  • A firm that owns Merrill Lynch needs no Wealth Management Head, other than the head of MLPF&S. Banks have huge and expensive management layers. The status quo will not do.

• Why Albert Pujols Isn't Worth the Richest Baseball Contract Ever

  Fri Feb 18, 2011
  • An individual is worth what the market is willing to pay for his or her services.

• Barbour walks back comments on civil rights era

  Tue Dec 21, 2010
  • It is most unfortunate that the Cat had to be Walked Back in the first place. Gov. Barbour, like Trent Lott during the Strom Thurmond dinner, made careless comments that are insensitive to the suffering and hardships faced by African Americans in a very troubled time in American history.