BS Joel.  If you examine drunk driving statistics, it's not the .05 or .08 or even .10 drivers that are getting into crashes and killing people.  No, it's the .18 and much higher ones.  A B/A count of .05 is FAR from being too impaired to drive.  I hope the hospitality industry fights this nonsense hard !

Seriously, if the wording of this scholarship said it can only be awarded to an "African-American", would Columbia have ANY problem with it??????????????????? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, of course not.  They'd be patting themselves on the back each and every time they awarded funds from it.   I'm so sick and tired of racis...more

Excellent post whatstars !  Exactly what I am thinking too.

Oh for crying out loud.  Their is the "United Negro College Fund" that is alive and well, and the Obamas even contribute to it.  Why can't their be scholarships for white people, esp. since they make up the MAJORITY of the population?  The woman who established this was not racist in the least.  Uber liberal Columbia h...more

This is just so scary.  A sizable chunk of Americans don't even have a quarter of a million dollars saved for their total retirement, yet alone that much to spend just for medical expenses not covered by Medicare.  Remember, this figure does not include what you need for dental, nor any assisted living or nursing home ...more

Gawd, this Aimee Picchi  MSN writer can't pen a single article ever without major errors!!!  In paragraph two, it reads "...$74.6 million in spending".  It should be $74.6 BILLION !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Yes, that's BILLION with a B Aimee.

Unless you had a husband that died, you are not single by choice.

I know a woman with 3 kids (from 3 different daddies of course) who gets $700.00 a month in SNAP (the politically correct term for the federal food stamp program now) PLUS another $275.00 from our bluer than blue state!!!  It's just nuts.  Of course they don't need that much.  She sells much of it.   You can literally ...more

I know a woman with 3 kids (from 3 different daddies of course) who gets $700.00 a month in SNAP (the politically correct term for the federal food stamp program now) PLUS another $275.00 from our bluer than blue state!!!  It's just nuts.  Of course they don't need that much.  She sells much of it.   You can literally ...more