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• FDA inspectors probe pet jerky treats in China

  Wed Apr 4, 2012
  • Why anyone would continue to feed their dogs anything made in China after the dog food scare of a few years ago is beyond me. We will not buy any food products from China, regardless of brand. It's not worth poisoning our pets or ourselves for whatever cost savings may be achieved initially.

• Citibank, 3 others fail Fed stress test; 15 pass

  Tue Mar 13, 2012
  • => "For those banks that failed, the Fed can stop them from paying stock dividends or buying back their own stock. The Fed can also force them to raise money by selling additional stock or issuing debt."

• Santorum says US 'equality' comes from Judeo-Christian ethic

  Sat Mar 3, 2012
  • "Equality" talk from someone who wants our government to discriminate against people who were born with a minority sexual orientation..." And who wants to turn the United States into a theocracy controlled by the Christian Taliban.

• Gov. Christie: I'm with Obama on gay marriage

  Thu Feb 23, 2012
  • "... the key difference between you and the president is that while you support putting the civil rights of that minority up for a public referendum, the president is not in favor of that,” Capehart said.

• Gov. Christie: I'm with Obama on gay marriage

  Thu Feb 23, 2012
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• The case for Obamacare as a plot to up car sales

  Thu Feb 16, 2012
  • "... community health centers could be funded for pennies on the penny compared to the cost of getting health care to those currently uninsured."

• Apple iPads seized by China in name dispute

  Mon Feb 13, 2012
  • This is nothing new. Foreign companies in China are discriminated against every day as the local mandarins favor and take bribes from domestic businesses. The government there is still stuck in the 19th century.

• Malaysia deports Saudi accused of prophet insult on Twitter

  Sun Feb 12, 2012
  • It is a cruel irony and an amazing act of hypocrisy by the Saudi regime to, on the one hand, criticize and seek actions against a Syrian dictator's crackdown on individual freedoms in that country, and at the same time to seek to silence one of its own citizens for exercising that same fundamental …

• Facing criticism, European bank boss turns down $1.5M bonus

  Sun Jan 29, 2012
  • I generally agree with the sentiment that bankers have historically raped and pillaged the system and been unjustly rewarded for their behavior, and that this has got to stop.

• Apple support helps iPhone thieves

  Wed Jan 25, 2012
  • What Apple is doing is being kind to the thief and cruel to the true owner. As the article states, that's the unintended consequence of having a relaxed policy on warranty exchanges.