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Comment by Dr. Thomas Giberson 17 minutes ago To all - The United States Senate is preparing to declare war on the American People. If you believe otherwise, you are mistaken. If you believe there is some other "line in the sand" that they dare not cross, you are mistaken. After nearly one year of Tea Parties, townhall meetings, endless emails and telephone calls, being pummelled by Glenn Beck, privat...

Obama and his crack team are on the job. This is supplied by David Galland from Casey's. Along those lines, check out this actual note from a senior-level person at Chrysler, dated Sunday, July 19, 2009. Monday morning, I attended a breakfast meeting where the speaker/guest was David E. Cole, Chairman Center for Automotive Research (CAR and Professor at the University of Michigan). You have all likely heard CAR...

Can Someone look at the table and explain the math here? I see nothing but negatives from the year previously, yet lo and behold, prices are up (median). How can so many negatives make a positive, oh, I think I see. If you multiply one negative with another negatieve you get a positive. What is worse is the table says 4% increase in price and the headlines and news casters were touting 7%. Go figure... Well, th...

I have the utmost respect for Ivy Zelman. She was the only housing analyst to ask tough questions of Bob Toll when I worked at Toll. In 2006, during a conference call she asked Bobby, "Which Kool-aid are you drinking?" She is correct in her assessment of the housing market. It is going down hard in 2010. I wouldn't be a buyer yet. Ivy Zelman: “Home prices are going back down” By Edward Har...

Apparently the Dean of Harvard Medical School missed the memo. Those damn Harvard conservatives are at it again. By JEFFREY S. FLIER As the dean of Harvard Medical School I am frequently asked to comment on the health-reform debate. I'd give it a failing grade. Instead of forthrightly dealing with the fundamental problems, discussion is dominated by rival factions struggling to enact or defeat President Barack ...

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It's Friday and I'm tired of detailing the end of civilization as we know it. Laugh your ass off....