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The Big Three and all the other automakers produced pickup trucks and SUVs because that is what so many people have wanted. Even Porsche produced an SUV! The problem with the Big Three is that pickups and SUVs are pretty much the only type of vehicle they manufacture that people want. For...

Cadillac is actually a pretty good brand now. Yes, they should fail and go into bankruptcy, restructure and get rid of the unions. It is very difficult for them to produce quality vehicles (although they have been managing to make improvements as of late) because of the unions. However, it...

Only hope I see is Krauthammer said on the news last night that come January, the Democrats will have to either abandon Detroit or practice lemon socialism (as he calls it) with them, but the problem with that is that it might hurt the party seriously for years to come, so they might not; time...

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/11/14/opinion/main4604147.shtml

Wow, thanks for the response guys :) I can see why the early helicopter pioneers struggled so much with figuring out how to engineer the aircraft properly!

Because government gun control advocates are not reasonable. You offer them an inch and they'll take a mile.

IMO, the 2nd Amendment is an individual right, and as such, government should have no ability to make you have to specify why you "need" any type of firearm. Same with books. Maybe if I buy books on chemical engineering, and I am a Web designer, I have some sinister plans...? Because I obviously...

Why Did the Huey Have Only Two Rotor Blades? So this is just something I was pondering, but I remember reading some time ago how the Marine Corps was getting a new version of the Huey helicopter, one with a four-bladed rotor, and my question is, why didn't they just give it a four-bladed, or...

I think there's a difference between just giving talking points from one's political point of view and trying to explain something, albeit in fewer words than they'd prefer because of limited time.

Biden made some gross simplifications and misstatments when talking about his support of "fairness" in the tax system, when he claimed that deregulation of healthcare would be bad, when he made the very misleading argument that we have had "eight years of failed Bush economic policies," which...

http://www.victorhanson.com/articles/hanson100208APF.html :D

Mmm...I'd have to heartily disagree. Biden did not win on substance by any means. Personally, I think he showed a terrible command of facts and figures, having little idea of what he was really saying. Anyone with a strong enough grasp of those issues (which unfortunately neither of them had)...

Even though I hope you are right, it is sad if most of the electorate only go by how things are said, instead of also taking into account what is being said. Both are important ("what" is said can be fine, but if you can tell the person is a lying SOB, it won't work). Also, this could be bad...

Two things: 1) Not to sound crude, but I don't give a rat's ass about where anybody "went to college." I could get up there and slaughter Obama and Biden on quite a few of these economic and tax issues, and I have no college degree. They call Harvard-Yale-Princeton "HYP" for a reason I...

I do not understand people not voting for McCain because they think Governor Palin isn't qualified to be VP; do you really think Senator Obama is qualified to be President...? Palin can debate and interview fine, and she is just as intelligent as Senator Obama and Senator Biden, the problem is...

Senator Obama talked about "bitter Americans who cling to their guns and religion" to a bunch of San Francisco elites. I think he is elitist. It came off as him having a, "Those poor, scared, sheeple people of middle-America, they are bitter because of these tough times and need our help, and...

I think McCain lost big time on the economics/tax portion of the debate; he seriously needs to bone up on that issue. On the foreign policy portion, I thought he out-debated Obama fine. But the thing is, is that the economy is on everyone's mind as of late, so that is an important issue...

I believe the financial markets are experiencing the worst crises since the Great Depression; but the economy itself is not anything like the Great Depression. Unfortunately, many people don't distinguish between the two. As for unemployment, I wouldn't call 6.1% sky-high; we Americans are...

Question About Scrambling Fighters... So this is just one of those "random" (:)) questions of mine, but I was thinking about in certain movies, for example Armageddon, Air Force One, etc...how they just scramble fighter planes very quickly whenever needed, and my question was, are there pilots...

Not saying the fundamentals are not sound, but inflation isn't 0%, even in a healthy economy, inflation is never 0%; a low level of inflation is necessary for a healthy economy I believe. GDP growth was up but who knows now, as for unemployment, it's around 6%, higher than it should be, not a...

Not saying I agree or disagree with it really, just figured I'd put the link up to add to the debate since people were discussing the issue.

Wow, great post, thank you!

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm/why-iraq-was-inevitable-11456

IMO, the government should not take any more than 25% of a person's income. Of course, getting to that point where we can sustain the current government while taxing like that is a big hurdle, but morally that's what I believe. And I mean combined too, as in federal income tax, state, local...

The one thing I hope is that the debates are not slanted against the Republicans in the way the Hillary/Obama debates were slanted against Hillary. Those things were so slanted in favor of Obama shows like Saturday Night Live were making total fun of it.

Good point, yes the evangelical wing of the Republican party would have been alienated over that issue, and like it or not, they are needed for any Republican to win. Palin can pull a lot of HRC voters because even though she is pro-life, many of HRC voters are smart enough to realize Roe v Wade...

I am not "right-wing." I am pro-choice for the first trimester. But I tend to side with Republicans far more than Democrats for our country's issues economics and foreign-policy wise. I highly doubt Roe v. Wade is not going to be overturned anytime soon. She would have been a good choice too...

Here is the ownership of Big Oil: http://bp3.blogger.com/_CQyU4ayBifw/SIZMqTCq7yI/AAAAAAAABFs/CMcaXq0JlXI/s1600-h/onwership.JPG

I think this is all just a big bunch of nothing. And I highly doubt Palin would have put her self or child into any kind of risk, there is probably more to it then that. Hillary's supporters all support her even though she has God-knows how much dirt to be dug up and stayed with her cheating...

Obama has said he will not increase taxes on anyone making under $250K from what I've heard/seen. This is a bit of a modification from what he was originally saying, back during the primaries; myself, I am against any tax increase, especially now. We should not punish those who are successful...

I am not implying that the bottom-earning 50% needs to be taxed at something like 90% to "even things out." My point is that a great deal of our economic investment and wealth comes from the highest-earners.

Yes, anywhere from 40% to 70% of the total tax revenue is paid by the highest-earning 1%. The bottom-earning 50% pay something like 3% of the total tax revenue.

Oh please, you make it sound as if I was comparing Barack Obama to the Nazis or something. You know what I was saying. Guess we will just have to "agree to disagree" on this issue.

I don't think that, but I wonder about him. Who you keep as company says a lot I think. He also is affiliated with Saul Alinsky and Frank Marshal Davis from my understanding. Why is it silly? Most "blacks" in America are part white. Very few are "pure" blacks. Reverand Wright himself...

His name and possible religious affiliation isn't what bothers me, but I do not believe you sit in a church like that for twenty years and then have the reverand as a trusted campaign advisor and not know his views or affiliations. Remember, Reverand Wright travelled with Farrakhan, a radical...

So, to take a joke that had been made in this election and advance it a bit: How in the hell hard is this election for people? You've got a guy who may be a racist apparently on one side running for President, who picked a tired old goofball fart for his VP, and then you've got a decorated...

Call her Barracuda!

With regards to her tax increase on oil in her state, I read this comment by someone at a website: There is a difference between a royalty rate and a windfall profits tax. Alaska OWNS the oil in its ground. By increasing the royalty rate as the market price of oil increases they are sharing in...

Well the human brain uses something like 40% of your body's energy supply, so we humans are very physically weak. Chimpanzees have much less capable brains, but their strength is phenomenal, they can do things like break truck tires in half with their bare hands and so forth. So if you believe...

From your post, she sounds a bit like a conservative Democrat...? Is there more detail to her taxing the oil industry, I mean why crush the most important industry in your state as governor...? Also, it does sound like re-distribution of wealth...

One thing on that, evolutionists do not believe that humans evolved from apes, they believe that there was a common ancestor, that evolved one way into the great apes and the other way into hominids, of which we became the dominant form. For example, there's like only a 3% genetic difference...

If the folks over at www DOT hillaryclintonforum DOT net are any indication, Palin is definitely going to pull Hillary voters to McCain. One view is that women were voting for Hillary solely over the issues and will see this as just a ploy to try and get their vote, and not go for it, however...

Glad that the Supreme Court protected our Second Amendment right, but it was close, a 5-4 decision; four of those Supreme Court justices were going to rule it was not an individual right! We were really lucky this case was done when it was. If Senator Barack Obama is elected President and is...

I remember reading about this technology on a forum somewhere, and I forget if it was regarding autonomous aircraft, or just remote-controlled unmanned ones, but they said there's like a huge issue regarding computer processing or something? And issues such as you have to figure out what to do...

Good point, this is a confusing subject! I am a huge supporter of free-trade, so this is interesting.

http://www.ncpa.org/iss/hea/2003/pd101703b.html - well according to this, which was written by the New York Times (definitely not a lover of capitalism), Canadian doctors are moving to America because they do not like the Canadian healthcare system. http://www.mackinac.org/article.aspx?ID=3443...

If Canada's care works so perfectly, then why do so many Canadians come to America to get care...? Perhaps we should just implement Dave Chappelle's healthcare solution: Free fake Canadian ID's for all Americans...:D

France is very socialist, and if that Sergolene Royale had won, she'd have nationalized more industries, given people 90% unemployment benefits (that'll motivate 'em to work!), etc... United Kingdom is very capitalist but led by a rather socialist party right now I believe. And Canada...

I think a few things yank up the cost of healthcare in the United States, one I believe being the drug companies and the Food and Drug Administration. I believe the FDA essentially allows the drug industry to, for the most part, be controlled by an oligopoly of big drug companies, which stifles...

Matt Drudge is Matt Drudge, you love him when he breaks something your way, but hate him when he breaks it "their" way; I would have preferred he kept this secret, but that is his style. He gets his news from other sources and links to their sites. Yeah, I understand the Foreign Legion are...