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• Americans hit the brakes on health care spending

  Mon Jan 9, 2012
  • Two years ago my employer redid our health insurance such that the deductible went from $250/yr to $3000/yr. I cancelled it since it became (and still is) too expensive to use.

• As home prices fall, more borrowers walk away

  Mon Jan 9, 2012
  • Several years ago (before the housing market crashed), I was out of work for about a year and a half. During that time I managed to keep making my car payments to Wells Fargo. I was late a few times, but overall I kept up my payments.

• 11/11/11: How Friday Is Tied to the Mayan Apocalypse

  Fri Nov 11, 2011
  • Bah! The world ended on October 21, 2011, just as predicted by Harold Camping. You people just weren't paying attention. You are all dead and don't even know it. :-P

• White House: There's no sign of E.T. or UFO cover-up

  Sat Nov 5, 2011
  • Ancient Aliens may provide "tons of facts" but none of them have anything to do with aliens except for the leap of faith from "we don't know how or why" to "it must have been aliens." Every episode is the same people repeating the same leap of faith over and over.

• Judge blocks Fla.'s new welfare drug testing law

  Mon Oct 24, 2011
  • JP, you really do fail to realize that the Constitution is a document which specifies what the GOVERNMENT can and cannot do. It does not extend to private parties, individuals or business.

• Science fiction-style sabotage a fear in new hacks

  Sun Oct 23, 2011
  • You're right, Steve.

• Is gruesome no longer taboo?

  Fri Oct 21, 2011
  • This was my first thought. However, don't forget that Hollywood makes, and remakes, movies and movie genres because WE buy them. Similarly, the fact that these images are "available on the internet" is not nearly as significant as the fact that we access them once they are available.

• Cain: My 9-9-9 plan will raise taxes on some in US

  Sun Oct 16, 2011
  • 9% tax on new items, 0% tax on used will encourage people to buy used. This should have a significant effect upon jobs, shouldn't it? Instead of buying a new car, buy a used one ... from a classified ad, for example ...

• Neutrinos spark wild scientific leaps

  Fri Oct 7, 2011
  • I'm going to stick my neck out and suggest that if neutrinos do travel faster than light, then perhaps Occam's razor suggests that Einstein was incorrect only in labeling "c" as the speed of light rather than as the speed of neutrinos.

• Can U.S. legally kill a citizen overseas without due process?

  Fri Sep 30, 2011
  • Gary, I agree with everything you said in the above comment. However, you left out the part where you acknowledge that when you "fight as a free man" you also expect your opponent to fight back and possibly kill you.