Curie was Polish (Maria Salomea Skłodowska was her birth name).  She lived and worked in France many years, but was Polish by birth.  So, the French did not even make that contribution, really.

The old saw is, "We need to spend MORE on education.  Hire more teachers.  Pay our teachers more.  Pay them more.  Pay them more.  Pay them more!"  How many people here have said the same?  Fact is though, we spend more on education per pupil than any other nation in the developed world, apart from Switzerland.  .  We ...more

Do some research.  See how much Japan and China are spending on education on a per-student basis.  We easily out-spend them, yet our kids are less well educated.  Throwing money at the problem is not the answer.  We need to get parents more involved.  We need teachers to teach, instead of babysitting and trying to main...more

Everyone in my company took a 20% pay cut in 2009 when work in our industry dried up because of the recession and government intervention.  The owner of our small business took a 50% cut in pay at the same time.  In other words, management suffered along with the "rank and file"--in fact, even more than we did.  Three ...more

Four of the 10 are oil companies.  So, the Obama administration's plans to beat down the oil companies really make a lot of sense, don't they.  Let's punish the companies (and 1%ers) who are investing in America.  That should be good for the economy!

I'm no union supporter--far from it.  That said, it amazes me that liberal MSN would be touting the Japanese auto manufacturers who ASSEMBLE cars here over the American brands (Ford and GM--Chrysler is Italian now, no matter how you look at it).  Ford and GM are union, for the most part, while the Japanese companies ha...more

Not sure if anyone else has said--no time to read through all the comments--but, thank you Justin for most definitely having your heart in the right place.  That's the bottom line--a kid doing what is right for those who served long before he was born (thanking them for the freedoms they gave him).  That's a special ki...more

It is extremists like Smith that have helped bring about a high level of uncivility in the USA the past several years.   You nailed it on the head!  This country is going down because we all think we're so right that we cannot even begin to see other person's point of view.  If I don't agree with you, you ARE my enem...more

What the article does not say is that the Japanese public debt (which it acknowledges exists) came about in large part through endless government attempts to stimulate the economy with deficit spending.  They pumped billions into this project and that, all in vain attempts to stoke the economy back up.  Meanwhile, the ...more