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• More see class conflict between rich and poor

  Wed Jan 11, 2012
  • It certainly has highlighted the different issues of those who are concerned with wealth preservation vs. others concerned about income.

• Why we hate taxes (it's not what you think)

  Tue Dec 20, 2011
  • It's a close call with complexity, but the wealthy benefit greatly from our national infrastructure. They should pay for it.

• Birds of a feather? Zoo to split up same-sex penguin pair

  Wed Nov 9, 2011
  • Hopefully at least one of them is bisexual and can help out the gene pool.

• Floating cooler key to locating 7 boaters off Fla.

  Tue Oct 11, 2011
  • I was thinking "Wow, they really should have been wearing their life vests in that kind of weather." But I read the whole article, and farther down one of the rescuers was quoted as saying: "I tried to get them to swim to the boat, but they said they didn't know how to swim,"

• Feds launch probe of Southwest power outage

  Fri Sep 9, 2011
  • I thought the article was very even-handed about saying that the outage was triggered by one person's activity, but that the problem was that the event didn't stay localized. The investigation isn't about how the worker could screw up--it's about why the system failed.

• What's your view on the dust up between Speaker Boehner and President Obama?

  Thu Sep 1, 2011
  • First they showed that they have irreconcilable differences. Now they've shown that they can't maintain even a veneer of civility.

• Gadhafi wife, 3 children reportedly flee to Algeria

  Mon Aug 29, 2011
  • What?

• Gadhafi wife, 3 children reportedly flee to Algeria

  Mon Aug 29, 2011
  • The "freedom-loving, democracy-oriented rebels have to take every town by force" because their supporters in those towns aren't the ones with guns--at least not until after the towns have been taken.

• Gadhafi wife, 3 children reportedly flee to Algeria

  Mon Aug 29, 2011
  • The former CIA officer obviously didn't have inside information...and why are we discussing this at all? It's over two months old, and the "expert's" criticism of our strategy in Libya clearly turned out differently than he predicted.

• Startup generation ready to fix economy

  Sun Aug 7, 2011
  • Well, I read through all of this particular comment thread, despite the raving ideology on both sides.