"...the end of journalism as we know it..." HuffPo / investigative journalism? God forgive us. You'd get better quality from an egalitarian rag like the atlanta journal constitution.

There's an estimated $13 trillion offshore b/c of our draconian tax system. Move to a flat tax, or (even better) the Fair Tax, making us the greatest tax haven on Earth, and watch how fast that money rushes into the country. But this, I fear, wouldn't happen due to the Fair Tax taking power away from the gov't and giving it to those evil capitalist bastards. :)

"Poor lending standards" established and enforced by the government on the likes of Fannie, Freddy, et al. Certainly the poeple's fault, but also the fed. gov't.

This is nothing a Broadband Czar couldn't fix. Who needs competition anyway? :-) Many federal politicians have already _proven_ the fallacy of believing a capitalist market can sustain itself, ergo Tarp v0.1.

Darien Graham-Smith: "Vista has had us driving with the handbrake on for the past two years, but at long last Windows 7 is coming to set us free." .....I hope this doesn't turn out like the transition from Hoover to FDR.