Too many of our young are coming back hurt and receiving nothing. Without civilian skills, they get lost. We need real change in our transitional programs for our separating veterans.

I vote for compulsory service for those who wish to vote. If you don't like the military, try helping out the elderly, In a hospice, or cleaning up our national parks, or building roads and bridges. -Something hard and demanding, then maybe a vote would mean something more than it does now, maybe the voters would actua...more

Most of your food, real goods, petroleum, etc... come from those states.

Don't worry folks... Virtually all of your sustenance and produced energy and refined petroleum products come from those 'wacky' folks in those ignorant red states. It doesn't take a mental giant to figure out who needs whom...

How amazing is it that we are having this conversation? Even though Mr. Berr goes out of his way to ridicule these protestors he seems to take their proposed secession seriously. Why else would he propose a series of quasi punishments for their leaving the union, but never addressing the root malaise that has caused th...more

OK. Let me think about this... You quit your job and went to school and obtained a BA in rhetoric and writing... ???   I am sorry, it may be a really desirable degree, but I don't understand the career path aspirations of a person who majors in rhetoric and writing. It may be a passion and there are jobs out there fo...more

And how is this different, in terms of the display technology, from the Sony HMZ-T1?

When all of the gold and silver retailers, etc... have sold you everything they can at the most inflated prices ever and then folded up their little sideshow tents and went home with your cash, then you will be even poorer than you were after the mortgage meltdown.   I get tired of listening to people only speaking...more

I am normally tolerant of ideas that run counter to my own thinking, but I am startled byt the statement, "I don't think (gold's rally) is just a dead-cat bounce. People are very much concerned about a deflationary environment."   I can understand the attractiveness of gold versus fiat currency in an inflationary ...more