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Peggy Noonan http://topics.wsj.com/article/SB123992073614326997.html of the WSJ touched on some of these trends this week. Echoing drsteph: People will be allowed to grow old again. There will be a certain liberation in this. There will be fewer facelifts and browlifts, less Botox, less dyed hair am...

Joe, What really escaped my mind was why the North decided to fight the war to the bitter end. I believe the answer is found in the mindset of the North. Many in the North really believed that the US "needed" the south to become the great country it was meant to be (it's "Manifest Destiny"). This is...

Has anyone heard anything more about this? Sorry if this has already been mentioned here, but a friend just alerted me to these comments from Rep. Kanjorski about a massive electronic run on the banks that was barely thwarted back in September: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ca2_1234032281 "...$5.5 ...

Riots in Iceland? This isn't going to be pretty. Could someone please pass the Hope? http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article5559773.ece#cid=OTC-RSS&attr=797093 "The LSE economist Robert Wade – addressing a protest meeting in Reykjavik’s cinema – recently warned that the world was ...

John, looks like you have a soul mate. Story linked on Drudge today: Nouriel Roubini: I fear the worst is yet to come When this man predicted a global financial crisis more than a year ago, people laughed. Not any more... http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/economics/article5014463.ece "R...

Marshall Kane wrote: I also fear the likelihood the worst is on its way, and our very survival may be at stake. If that is the case, I could see myself accepting a president Obama, in the hopes that 12 years of "moderate" Republican rule will be spared the blame for the coming disaster. I have hear...

This is an interesting discussion, since an understanding of generational theory does force one to examine politics from a different angle. I'm a conservative, in that I believe that certain values - both cultural and economic - are essential to the long term survival of this nation (just stating my...