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Little Sympathy for Bernie Madoff's Family
Tweet Share on Facebook October 31, 2011 Comment (3)Surely, it's been a difficult time for the wife and son of Bernie Madoff, the man now serving a 150-year prison sentence for running a $65 billion Ponzi scheme and bilking investors out of their life savings. The couple's other son, Mark Madoff, committed suicide, hanging himself with a black dog leash while his two-year-old son slept nearby. Ruth Madoff, Bernie's wife, says she knew nothing about her husband's crimes while they were happening, but must endure the harassment, shame, and upsetting newspaper headlines that have come as a result of the scandal. And Andrew Madoff, the other son, feels betrayed.
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An Efficient Metaphor for What's Wrong With Congress
Tweet Share on Facebook October 28, 2011 Comment (17)We know Congress isn't getting along. But that's no good reason to spend less time together.
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Why GOP's 'Birther' Attacks on Obama Will Backfire
Tweet Share on Facebook October 27, 2011 Comment (5)Just when you thought the ridiculous "birther" movement had died down, GOP primary contender Rick Perry has brought it back. In separate interviews, Texas governor Perry indicated he wasn't completely convinced that President Obama was born in the United States. In an interview with Parade, Perry said he had recently dined with Donald Trump (a fact Perry, remarkably, volunteered to the magazine) and that Trump still did not believe that Obama's long-form birth certificate was real. Perry wouldn't go that far, but nor would he say that he was sure Obama is an American citizen.
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Why Do Automakers Enable Idiotic Texting While Driving?
Tweet Share on Facebook October 25, 2011 Comment (8)Technology, again, is at war with law enforcement and just basic common sense. Hence, we have automakers fashioning cars so that drivers can have their text messages spoken to them. The idea is to circumvent laws that rightly ban texting while driving. The laws themselves are almost laughable, since the practice is so objectively dangerous and stupid, one wonders why anyone has to be told not to do it. It's right up there with those signs at the U.S. Post Office warning people that they are not allowed to mail bleach. Who mails bleach? If you're even thinking about mailing bleach, you have bigger problems than the U.S. Post Office is medically qualified to solve.
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Illegal Immigrants Not to Blame for Unemployment
Tweet Share on Facebook October 24, 2011 Comment (33)Memo to Alabama: George W. Bush was right.
The former president, making a too-late push for what could have been a game-changing, bipartisan immigration reform law, noted that immigrants now here illegally make an important contribution to the economy. They do the jobs Americans can’t or won’t do.
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Debate Roughhousing Aside, is Romney Serious about Illegals?
Tweet Share on Facebook October 20, 2011 Comment (1)Former Gov. Mitt Romney has made news recently because of his demeanor at the most recent of the slew of GOP primary debates. The normally unflappable (in public, anyway) Romney lost it a little bit when foe Gov. Rick Perry accused the former Massachusetts governor of using illegal immigrants to tend his lawn.
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GOP Is Obama's Best Asset With Latinos
Tweet Share on Facebook October 20, 2011 Comment (3)President Obama has been warned in the media and elsewhere that he is in trouble with his base. African-Americans are disappointed. Students aren't willing to give up a few hours of study time to go door-to-door for him. And Latinos, too, we are told, are frustrated that nothing has been done about immigration reform, even in the first two years, when Obama enjoyed Democratic majorities in both chambers of Congress.
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Who Will Protect Students From Bullying Teachers?
Tweet Share on Facebook October 18, 2011 Comment (13)In suburban Buffalo, a gay 14-yer-old boy was so taunted at school and online that he took his own life. In New Jersey, a school declaration of October as gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender month for students was belittled on a Facebook page, with the writer calling homosexuality "a sin" that "breeds like cancer." And in Mobile, Ala., a second-grade special education student was mocked on Facebook by someone who donned the helmet the small child needs to wear for protection during seizures.
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Herman Cain Is Not a Serious Candidate for President
Tweet Share on Facebook October 17, 2011 Comment (28)Will someone please just give Herman Cain a chat show?
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Stars Going Out in the NFL, Which Is Good
Tweet Share on Facebook October 14, 2011 Comment (1)Among corporate motivational phrases, it's one of the most hackneyed, and the most mocked: "There is no 'I' in 'Team.'" Of course, this is technically true in literal terms, and even true in an ideal workplace, but the star system in business, politics, sports and entertainment has become so pervasive that it's amazing those
