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• NBC/WSJ poll: Gingrich leads Romney, but badly trails Obama

  Thu Jan 26, 2012
  • @1.60 -- Good one, they are indeed The Committee to Re-Elect President Obama. Whichever one of those clowns gets the GOP nomination, he's this cycle's throwaway candiate, since none of them stand a chance of beating Obama.

• Gingrich daughter's teen work may have violated law

  Wed Jan 18, 2012
  • She's lucky she wasn't harmed by the toxic chemicals janitors often use.

• SOPA inspires Mark Zuckerberg's first tweet since 2009

  Wed Jan 18, 2012
  • openmi, you should copyright your post. Now I'm going to quote part of it, with attribution, under the Fair Use principle: "This is impossible to expect a profitably (sic) business with know (sic) income is insane."

• iPhone 4S China release sparks scuffles and eggings

  Fri Jan 13, 2012
  • @3 -- Mike, are you kidding? Yes, iPhones are assembled by Foxconn in China -- an assembly process that is mostly automated, but still requires human labor. The hardware and software design, the industrial design (look and feel), the management, the marketing, etc.

• Possible implications for November in exit poll data

  Tue Jan 10, 2012
  • @8.5 -- Janine, you're right, it's not fair for people to assume that the past official racism of the Mormon church has anything to do with what they practice and preach today. The church used to ban black men from being ordained into the priesthood, but they changed that rule way back in 1978.

• Possible implications for November in exit poll data

  Tue Jan 10, 2012
  • @8.1, it's not so simple as saying that either Mormons don't know what they believe or else Campfireman doesn't know what they believe. The fact is, Mormon beliefs and practices, as well as the Book of Mormon, have changed several times in the brief 150-ish year history of the church.

• Leopard scalps man during deadly attack in India

  Sun Jan 8, 2012
  • @1.3 -- China's population was 1.34 billion in 2010, up from 1.3 billion in 2005 and from 1.0 billion in 1982. I would say their one-child policy has been very effective in restraining population growth.

• The most popular American companies in China

  Sun Jan 8, 2012
  • American consumers do benefit from outsourcing of manufacturing -- just ask any Wal-Mart shopper who just bought a pair of jeans for $30 that was sewn by workers operating a machine in Bangladesh if they would rather pay $50 for the exact same jeans, knowing that they were sewn by American workers …

• The most popular American companies in China

  Sun Jan 8, 2012
  • I know what you mean.

• The most popular American companies in China

  Sun Jan 8, 2012
  • Last time I checked, Microsoft still does most of its development work in Redmond, Washington where it employs thousands of Americans. That includes not only MS software, but also the Xbox hardware development.