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• US priests reportedly behind Vatican crackdown on nuns

  Thu May 10, 2012
  • There are so many things wrong with the Vatican's response that it's hard figure out where to start.

• US taxpayers get off easy, compared to some others

  Fri Apr 27, 2012
  • Of course, we should be paying more to get more. There are things that Americans don't get, and healthcare is near the top of that list.

• Young women want it all, perhaps more than young men

  Thu Apr 19, 2012
  • Balance, balance, balance.

• 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?