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• Safety of popular air shows, races under scrutiny

  Sun Jan 8, 2012
  • We can not make every facet of perfectly safe from every possible type of accident, and if we could life would be impossibly dull.

• At least 4 jets strand Conn. passengers for hours

  Sat Oct 29, 2011
  • New passenger protection law provides that the airline can be charged up to $26K per passenger for this type of effective imprisonment. If the FAA doesn't fine them the passengers should form a class action suit and hit the airline as hard as they can.

• US border security — expensive with mixed results

  Sun Jun 26, 2011
  • We give Billions and Billions away every year in foreign "aid" to dozens of countries, and it is somehow an issue to spend a few million on our own border? At least what we spend on our own protection here goes, to provide jobs for Americans, and isn't given to people who hate our guts.

• Proposed rules could shut many out of housing market

  Wed Jun 8, 2011
  • Contrary to popular belief these loan requirements will not sink the housing market. Those who cannot afford or qualify to buy a house will simply rent one. This rental house will be bought and owned by an investor who was able to put down the required amount and qualify for the loan.

• Vote: If the world was ending tomorrow...

  Fri May 20, 2011
  • Parent as dumb as this, with kids this smart are PROOF that god doesn’t exist. If an all powerful, all knowing god existed he would never h

• Massive A380 jet clips, spins smaller plane at JFK

  Tue Apr 12, 2011
  • I'm a commercial pilot. Pilots often can't see their wingtips, because they are too far aft of the cockpit windows. Even when they can see the tips, they are so far away in these really big airplanes that perspective vision isn't good enough to be certain they will clear an obstacle.

• Who should conduct airport pat-downs?

  Mon Jan 3, 2011
  • No one. The billions we spend on the illusion of securty is too damned much.

• Real 'Pat Downs' finding humor in pat-downs

  Tue Nov 23, 2010
  • FYI-forbiding baggage areas would increase flying cost. A considerable portion of revenue comes from carrying cargo on the flights having nothing to do with passengers.

• Feds, Arizona spar over immigration

  Fri May 28, 2010
  • News reporting of the law and demonstrations, etc. keep reporting the anti-immigration side as opposing the bill. This is wrong. It is not anti-immigration - it is anti ILLEGAL immigration. I come from immigrants as most of the people in this country did. They came LEGALLY.

• What do you think of the White House's latest plan to stem foreclosures?

  Fri Mar 26, 2010
  • Everyone lost something in this downturn. I lost my job, a good chunk of my retirement (401 investment losses), and all the appreciation in my house for the last 10 years, but-because I'm not "underwater" and still have some savings left I get nothing.