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...talking about the day that the Mayans are supposed to return to Earth and destroy us by depolarizing our aura, which is not scheduled until 2012. I’m talking about the day we wake up and suddenly no longer understand technology...

Author: By Alexandra A. Petri | Title: Hitting the Technology Wall | 9/17/2009 | See Source »

...culture of concealment, for lack of a better word. You have someone like Sandy Berger, who by all accounts is a decent guy, taking rather extreme measures to remove documents from the National Archives and hide them at a construction site where he could retrieve them later and destroy them. There were interviews made at the FAA's New York center the night of 9/11 and those tapes were destroyed. The CIA tapes of the interrogations were destroyed. The story of 9/11 itself, to put it mildly, was distorted and was completely different from the way things happened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New Look at the 9/11 Commission | 9/11/2009 | See Source »

...gets many tips, good and bad, and can't be expected to follow up on every single one, Rickards contends. "They get tips all the time - some of them are invented, some of them are malicious, some of them are people who are out to destroy other people, and they try to use the SEC as the enforcement agency," he says. "So they don't act on all of it. That's where the discretion comes in, and that's why in my view the suit will fall down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: After Its Madoff Report, Can Victims Sue the SEC? | 9/3/2009 | See Source »

...convince Congress that a public option should not be part of health-care reform. And that is only the money that is being spent on lobbying. Millions more is spent on advertising. Where does that money come from? It comes from our premiums. Every million dollars spent to destroy the public option and to mold health-care legislation so that it favors insurance companies is a million dollars that is not being spent on patients. Karen Wagner, Rolling Meadows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 8/31/2009 | See Source »

...this the essential paradox of the age of Obama, that we have to destroy the village in order to save it, bust the budget in hopes we'll someday balance it, play to self-interest to promote the national interest? Just as the Cash for Clunkers frenzy reached its peak, the Administration quietly released new deficit projections, which pointed to a $9 trillion gap over 10 years. In the middle of a national nervous breakdown over out-of-control spending, we took a summer break from puritanical fretting and got all excited about a federal subsidy for something we already...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cash for Clunkers: The Bribery Stimulus | 8/27/2009 | See Source »

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