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As you probably know, one billion dollars has nearly been depleted for the Cash For Clunkers program. Congress is getting ready to approve 2 billion more. The sudden purchase of automobiles will, in all likelyhood, increase production at auto plants, creating opportunities to haul J.I.T.freight...

Bill Clinton shows up unannounced to see Kim Jong Il and gets 2 journalists not only freed, but pardoned. My man. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32277010/ns/world_news-asiapacific/?GT1=43001

You know him... We all do. Like all of us who have perused or passed through these hallowed threads, Dougster Travels has had to do his share of deflecting those who attack his opinions as well as attack those opinions which differ or diminish in some way his own outlook. As all of you know...

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The planet is on overload. There isn't enough food to go around. Zero population growth is but a theory. World population is expected to explode to nearly 1 1/2 times what it is now within 40 years! Is the flu merely God's way of saying "keep it in your pants or else?"

The Obama administration announced this past week it would not re-open NAFTA for review. After Hillary Clinton said during the campaign that if elected she would open NAFTA for review, Obama said he would do the same. Now he has come out saying it isn't going to happen. Senator Sherrod Brown of...

It's about time somebody did this.... Cruise ship fends off pirate attack with gunfire

Obama shook hands with Hugo Chavez at the Summit for the Americas in Trinidad. This oughta be good...O.K., let 'er rip!

In 1986, a retired auto worker from my old neighborhood in Northeast Ohio was stripped of his american citizenship and deported to Israel on suspicion of being a sadistic death camp guard at Auschwitz during WWII. He was subsequently tried, convicted and sentenced to death in an Israeli court...

Years ago I had a summer job at a city park. The place was very nice and the lawns there were beautiful. One of my tasks at this job was to spread new grass seed once a week on these very beautiful lawns. The reason for this was puzzling to me so one day I asked the maintainence chief why they...

My macroeconomic learning was too many brain cells ago too have a solid answer for this question , so here goes: The T.A.R.P. deal has not worked. The banks got the money and seem to be just sitting on it. They refuse to loan it. People need to buy stuff. They can't buy stuff if the bank won't...

Greg, Please come back. This forum is floundering without you. Your boundless, yet abrasive, wisdom is desperately needed now. The dumbing down of America has unfortunately reached the soapbox. The inmates are running the asylum. I hardly ever agree with you but at least your educated opinions...

How is it that huge oil companies can merge and the deal goes right through, Rupert Murdoch can totally hijack the entire news business, airlines can merge almost at will, and 2 fledgling satellite providers who basically need each other to survive long term are still having to face...