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• Facebook co-founder renounces U.S. citizenship

  Fri May 11, 2012
  • This is a classic case as to why "taxing the rich" isn't always an effective strategy. They don't have to stay here! If you're a billionaire, you can live wherever you want.

• Ex-New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson wins Libertarian presidential nomination

  Sat May 5, 2012
  • John, "real Libertarians" want to end regulation of the banks and turn that sort of activity into business as usual. Alan, not true. Real Libertarians are for protecting consumers against fraud. Plenty of regulations already exist but the SEC doesn't bother to enforce many of them.

• Ex-New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson wins Libertarian presidential nomination

  Sat May 5, 2012
  • Unfortunately, Gary Johnson isn't a real Libertarian. He claims that there were no laws broken by bank executives during the mortgage crisis. This is completely opposite to what Libertarians have been shouting at the tops of their lungs for the past 4 years.

• Plastic trash in oceans 'vastly' underestimated

  Fri Apr 27, 2012
  • I wonder if this could cause ocean temperature variations.

• Plastic trash in oceans 'vastly' underestimated

  Fri Apr 27, 2012
  • If plastic trash in the oceans are a factor of 27 times higher than current estimates, I'd be curious if a scientific study could find out if this is a major reason ocean temps are rising. I would think a lot of that plastic would just act like a huge solar blanket.

• Obama wants to target oil market manipulation

  Tue Apr 17, 2012
  • If gas is 73% more today than it was on Obama's inauguration day: 1.89 x .73 = 1.35 ---> This is the amount (in dollars of course) gas has increased since Obama's inauguration day. 1.89+1.35 = 3.20 ---> Is the price of gas if it's 73% higher than it was on inauguration day.

• Obama wants to target oil market manipulation

  Tue Apr 17, 2012
  • sheeze people: it is really simple - Jan 20, 2009 1.89 Apr 18, 2012 3.98 So let's do some quick math for the slow-minded... If gas is 73% more today than it was on Obama's inauguration day:

• Obama wants to target oil market manipulation

  Tue Apr 17, 2012
  • I'm thinking the American middle class has been taking it in the shorts steadily since 1980, when trickle-ON supply-side became the economic soup du jour during Reagan's reign.

• Study: 21 percent of New Yorkers are living in poverty

  Tue Apr 17, 2012
  • And Bush is a right winged moron that crashed the economy. NUF SAID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If Bush crashed the economy, it was due to running up deficits to finance the Iraq war. Clinton had a strong hand in crashing the economy as well. He signed the bill to dissolve Glass-Stegall.

• 'Jesus ... do not take me yet,' Hugo Chavez weeps

  Fri Apr 6, 2012
  • According to the evangelists, faith alone will save him. So he's allowed to be a socialist dictator and all is well.