Did Mitt Romney and Bain Capital help office-supply retailer Staples create 88,000 jobs? 43,000? 252? Actually, Staples probably destroyed 100,000 jobs while creating millions of new ones.
Only four days to get ready: On Saturday we get to celebrate National Ice Cream Day!
Whether you get it in a cup or in a cone, atop a waffle or in a banana split, make sure to visit your local ice cream shop today to get some cold, delicious ice cream. Watch out for ice cream events and freebies happening in your area.
So, put "Stay alive" on the list and make it 8:
Stephen R. Covey, author of the top-selling motivational book "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People," died on Monday at an Idaho hospital from injuries he suffered in a bicycle accident in April, family members said in a statement. He was 79.
You'd think Bruce Sprngsteen and Paul McCartney would be smart enough to know that if there is a curfew that officials have been enforcing pretty seriously, it might be a good idea to start the concert in time for it to be over before the curfew. But, noooo, and of course it's somebody else's problem, not theirs:
So, if I have to sit down to urinate, would that make me a retromingent reactionary?
The U.S. Navy's new class of carriers will be the first to go without urinals, a decision made in part to give the service flexibility in accommodating female sailors, the Navy says.
President Obama speaking in Roanoke:
Is there a "fairness" factory somewhere out in Middle America producing self-sustaining jobs? If not, President Barack Obama's obsession with ending Bush-era tax cuts makes no sense as either policy or politics.
Pride of the U.S.A., made in China!
How shall we celebrate this year's Cost of Government Day on Sunday? Something frivolous perhaps, such as putting a few dollars under the mattress where nobody can find it:
This year, Americans have to work until July 15 to pay for the burden of government, more than six months.
Has there ever been a more obvious "let's pretend to take them seriously so they'll shut up and go away" exercise than the Indiana High School Atheletic Association's public hearings on whether to go back to single-class basketball? After conducting 11 meetings across the state, the IHSAA announces, to hardly anyone's surprise, that there is a "lack of evidence" to support going away from the current system. And that's just fine and dandy with a lot of people:
Is this too pessimistic -- will Amazon's push for same-day delivery really, as the headline predicts, "destroy local retail"?
So what's that you were saying about my posts showing some paranoia about privacy lately?
WASHINGTON (CBSDC) – The Department of Homeland Security will soon be using a laser at airports that can detect everything about you from over 160-feet away.
When authority has been abused to the point where we expect it to be arbitrary and capricious, the logical result is that we lose all respect for authority:
Oh, come on now, you can't say you didn't see this coming:
Greenbelt Homes Inc., a cooperative that owns about 1,600 row houses in historic Greenbelt, is considering a rule that would allow residents to ban smoking in the properties if all of those living in a row of four to five homes are in agreement.
Maybe we should stop being so pessimistic about the prospects for coming generations:
But, you see, Joe, that's exactly the problem:
Rep. Joe Donnelly's (D-Ind.) latest ad portrays him as a bipartisan pragmatist while poking fun at his opponent, Indiana state Treasurer Richard Mourdock (R), for his uncompromisingly conservative views.
Guess I know who to go see when the revolution starts:
An admitted militiaman got 41 guns and more than 100,000 rounds of ammunition back from the government Friday.
Can I get an "amen" forRobert J. Samuelson's timely economic sermon?
It's not exactly a shock that Americans' confidence in television news has dropped to a new low:
Americans' confidence in television news is at a new low by one percentage point, with 21% of adults expressing a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in it. This marks a decline from 27% last year and from 46% when Gallup started tracking confidence in television news in 1993.
