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• Senate negotiators reach deal on payroll tax cut extension

  Fri Dec 16, 2011
  • A note about #17 above: The USPS is not supported by taxes. The USPS has been losing about $5 billion per year AND USPS has to pre-fund retiree benefits out to 2081 at a cost of about $5 billion per year.

• New York City is Due for a Hurricane

  Sat Jul 17, 2010
  • When did NYC last experience a hurricane?

• Rhode Island grad: ‘It’s not the teachers’ fault’

  Wed Feb 24, 2010
  • Education can only happen when ALL of the participants are fully engaged toward the best education for students. It requires: parents, students, teachers, principals, board members, legislators and the entire cultural milleaux. Lacking any one of those, the educational enterprise collapses.

• Senate report: Bin Laden was 'within our grasp'

  Sun Nov 29, 2009
  • George W. Bush, the fool, was told by Cheney et. al. that he could be the George Washington of the Middle East AND bring on the Second Coming of Christ in one go by invading Iraq. So Colin Powell predicted correctly that we could/would end up with a Terrorist-Industrial Complex.

• Would you teach middle-school kids in New York City for $125,000 a year?

  Fri Jun 5, 2009
  • Yes, if I could teach in my strongest area of expertise.

• Amid queries, CIA worries about future

  Tue May 19, 2009
  • Torture is ineffective. Torture is immoral and illegal. Torture entirely supports the agenda of people who would do US harm. If we are to reclaim a position of world leadership it will be from high ground. High ground does not include torture or biblical contexts for illegal invasions.

• Lincoln ranked best president by historians

  Mon Feb 16, 2009
  • It will take a very long time to fathom the depth and breadth of the "W" administration's depravity. Mr. Bush was right in saying that his administration will be debated for centuries. One reason: he has locked down much of his presidential record.

• Obama slams Wall Street on bonuses

  Thu Jan 29, 2009
  • Our wonderful "conservatives" who shamelessly preach "conservative values," have dramatically demonstrated that we are all, in fact, connected to one another ("socialism").

• Obama hosting pricey party in a dicey economy

  Sat Jan 17, 2009
  • Until I heard Mr. Obama, I never gave any politician more than my vote. The contrast between Mr. Obama and the small-minded, ideololgically thoughtless,  incompetence of the last 8 years is too much to grasp.

• Do you agree with Gov. Sarah Palin that she was unfairly treated by the media during the presidential election campaign?

  Fri Jan 9, 2009
  • "An educated populace is the foundation of Democracy." The "conservative" resistance to supporting Public Education, favoring instead their "you're on your own" approach to education reveals their fondness for candidates like Quayle, "W" and Palin. No wonder they idolize Reagan.