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It's just more of the same. Hand out taxpayer money to your pals. http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2011/11/13/how-obama-s-alternative-energy-programs-became-green-graft.html In March 2011, for example, the GAO examined the first 18 loans that were approved and found that none were...

I played a lot of baseball growing up, so I was thinking about trading in terms of knowing that if I got my at-bats, I would get my share of hits. I hated it when I struck out or even if I hit one on the button that just turned out to be a long out. But I also knew my hits would come over time...

About a year ago a local newspaper ran a story on a local business that 20 years ago had 40 employees and had grown to 60 employees since then. The most surprising part of the article was that the company's revenues had grown by almost 500% during that time (while only increasing employees by...

I've been trading for a living for almost 21 years. I can't see how being a sociopath would make me a better trader. My trading edge is in my analysis/statistical approach to trading, not in my personality. My trading psychology is based upon knowledge and discipline, not upon being an...

So-called "gun control" is just an incremental way of getting to the end game -- total gun confiscation. It's no secret. Everybody knows it on both sides of the issue. Honest people are willing to come out and say it.

The wishful thinking is entirely on your part. There's nothing, not a shred of evidence, that any type of civil war is even possible, much less imminent. You're just salivating over the opportunity to kill people (via the military) who disagree with you politically. It's not going to happen.

My children go to a school with metal detectors and armed security. It will be interesting to see what all the Prius-driving parents will say when the kids come back to school after the first of the year. Should be an interesting discussion. Why should our children have these protections but not...

Soldiers are trained to not follow illegal or immoral orders. Tens of thousands of soldiers would refuse to participate on those grounds.

I have a cousin and a nephew in the military, both of whom told me the same thing: They would never participate in any military action against US citizens under any conditions. That's not the job of the military. That's the job of civilian law enforcement (of whom there are over 800,000 in the...

Sounds like taxes... They want to raise other people's taxes.

So the question is, why do they keep broadening the criteria for autism and ADD/ADHD? The only reason I can see is to make it easier to drug kids that are difficult to deal with. When our younger daughter was 5-7 years old there were many times I would have loved to "medicate" her because she...

"Epidemic" is the right word. I've got school-age children and I see first-hand how many of these kids get diagnosed with some kind of "learning disability." It's unbelievable. My youngest daughter had some difficulties in school in first and second grades. Her teachers, the school...

Actually, that would make you one of "them."

If you're interested in an excellent book on particle physics: The Particle at the End of the Universe: How the Hunt for the Higgs Boson Leads Us to the Edge of a New World by Sean Carroll

Mass murder is a tragedy, but it's not the "epidemic" that some people are trying to make it out to be. My daughters were very upset about the school shooting last week so we did some research to see what the likelihood is of being killed by a mass murderer. [I try to teach my kids to...

Agnostic. “The fact of the matter is that we are dealing with the cosmic questions of existence and meaning. Thomas Huxley, the great biologist of the last century, said that the question of all questions for science and religion is to determine our true place and our true role in the...

Average number of people in the US killed in mass shootings (4 or more victims per FBI stats) each year -- approximately 150. -------------------------------------------------- Number of people killed in gang violence each year: -- Over 500 each year in Los Angeles. -- Over 400 each...

This story is over 13 years old. (July, 1999) http://www.thestreet.com/story/769395/1/gunman-kills-at-least-9-in-shooting-at-atlanta-daytrading-firm.html

Where my kids go to school you have to pass through a metal detector in a lobby area. But you're still not inside the school. Someone on the other side of a door watching a CCTV screen has to buzz you through to get out of the lobby area into the school itself. Just having a metal detector...

I'm very sorry to hear about your sick child. As the father of two daughters, one of whom experienced some serious health problems, I understand what you're going through. Let me offer some friendly advice. When you're under stress and worried about your child, you should be spending time...