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• Woman dies after botched buttocks surgery; 2 arrested

  Mon Apr 11, 2011
  • I'm sorry, but this scenario sounds like the worst possible guess in a game of "Clue" - On the Wrong End - By a Clerical Worker - In the back room of a Tile Store - With a Turkey Baster - And some White Out mixed with Hand Sanitizer -

• A cheery mood makes you more forgetful

  Tue Apr 5, 2011
  • I sure hope the idiots who designed this study didn't get any government money for it. Their tests and methodology were tilted toward remembering insignificant minutiae, which watching the "How to" video would sort of prime one for.

• Do you think the cost-cutting aimed at public union workers has been fair?

  Tue Apr 5, 2011
  • In some cases there are union-benefit excesses, but these should be carefully looked at, not dealt with by removing worker rights.

• Civil War at 150: Revisiting scarred battlefields

  Sat Apr 2, 2011
  • Fakeman, if I weren't retiring after this Tax Season I would have even MORE business once a Flat tax was implemented. Do you really think the states will conform to a flat tax? If they don't that will mean every state income tax return will become massively more complex.

• Civil War at 150: Revisiting scarred battlefields

  Sat Apr 2, 2011
  • Southern Democrat - unless I misread you it appears you are portraying yourself as powerless and at the mercy of some mythical entity you call the "Northern Government". I'll grant you that the powerful ignore the powerless, but this is not just a "Northern" attitude or action.

• Civil War at 150: Revisiting scarred battlefields

  Sat Apr 2, 2011
  • FakeMan - You think you could have handled it better. I have some serious doubts about that. The long-term results of secession would most likely have been two incomplete and weak-assed countries that would probably have devolved into petty-assed little fiefdoms.

• Civil War at 150: Revisiting scarred battlefields

  Sat Apr 2, 2011
  • Randall, that's just about the silliest bunch of revisionist blather I've ever read in my life. I think you've got Abraham Lincoln confused with George W. Bush. That's not an easy mistake for anyone with more than half a brain to make.

• Civil War at 150: Revisiting scarred battlefields

  Sat Apr 2, 2011
  • Martha, you're living inside a pipe-dream that had absolutely no chance of working. As I noted above, Lincoln knew that having two separate nations bordering each other would equal less than the sum of the parts and than neither society would last or be worth a tinker's damn within a couple decades.

• Civil War at 150: Revisiting scarred battlefields

  Sat Apr 2, 2011
  • @Truth not History: "Slavery caused secession, but secession caused the Civil War. Had Washington recognized the States' right to secede and their basic sovereignty by withdrawing its military from Southern soil, there need not have been a war."

• Civil War at 150: Revisiting scarred battlefields

  Sat Apr 2, 2011
  • The sad reality is that the South got itself into a war it couldn't possibly have won - the North had a huge edge in manufacturing capability. The South had serious deficiencies within their railroad system, especially the lack of a uniform railroad gauge.