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• Obama: Gay marriage 'doesn't weaken families, it strengthens families'

  Mon May 14, 2012
  • Amanda, if we can believe the Internet Movie Database on the matter, Brokeback Mountain cost $14 million to make and grossed $83 million. Respectable gross, awesome profit.

• Obama: Gay marriage 'doesn't weaken families, it strengthens families'

  Mon May 14, 2012
  • People, understand that Obama has made a political decision that he can profit from the gay marriage issue by changing sides. Remember that he opposed it.... up until a few weeks ago, I suppose.

• Snakes, mine shafts challenge crews battling Arizona wildfire

  Mon May 14, 2012
  • mon90 wrote: I don't understand how people can be so blind and not think that terrorist and drug cartel won't come up our borders.

• Clyburn seeks 'national policy' legalizing same-sex marriages

  Mon May 14, 2012
  • A National policy makes sense.... but, alas, the Constitution clearly left it up to the states. If we care about the Constitution, and I do, we'd need a Constitutional amendment. Better yet, get government out of the marriage business altogether and treat it as a contract....

• Facebook co-founder renounces U.S. citizenship

  Fri May 11, 2012
  • Skup, unemployment was never at 21% during the Carter years. You are probably thinking of his "misery index", which talking point arguably unseated both him and his predecessor, Ford.

• Facebook co-founder renounces U.S. citizenship

  Fri May 11, 2012
  • Jack, FYI, the US is one of the few countries which taxes all your income regardless of where you earn it. As long as you are a US citizen, the feds want a piece of it.

• Bernanke: Even worthy borrowers can't get mortgages

  Thu May 10, 2012
  • john, housing at "astronomical" lows? "Astronomical" usually means large, but assuming you mean that housing is dirt cheap.... I'm skeptical. Median prices are still high in many places when compared to median wages.... and that assumes that folks are actually employed. You also wrote:

• Obama who? Gay marriage foes seek to extend gains

  Thu May 10, 2012
  • NCC wrote: Jesus himself was/is a LIBERAL .... and a Republican until the mid-1950s, when he changed to.... Democrat? Seriously, leave that WWJB stuff to the ditzes.

• Obama who? Gay marriage foes seek to extend gains

  Thu May 10, 2012
  • kat wrote: I am proud of our President Don't be. He decided that he could benefit politically from this. There's nothing more to it than that. I'm happy however that he has finally joined me on the right side of this, but he's been AWOL far too long.

• Judge: Texas can't ban Planned Parenthood from health program

  Mon Apr 30, 2012
  • Mike, thanks for the thoughtful post. I agree with much of it. Here's a statistic I have trouble getting past though: 98-1. That was the vote in the Senate approving the Patriot Act. The answer to the obvious question is Russ Feingold and he was defeated for reelection some years ago.