Having a tradition of allowing space for heresy accounts in huge measure for the longevity and prosperity of such companies as Toyota, General Electric, Procter & Gamble and Royal Dutch Shell, prolific business author Art Kleiner contends in this updated edition of his 1996 best-seller, "The Age of Heretics."

The only thing allowing American companies to sell even a single automobile is that some people still think the quality of all makes is... // Arizona Daily Star

For McCain its all abou the "W" word...

McCain is from a long lineage of warriors.

His ancestry was resolute with war.

Hence the man was born into war. He runs his campaign as war is the touchstone to the people!

Born, raised and winding his life through in and about war he tells his story...

It does not seem to matter to him that the Vietnam War in which he served was an imperialistic national blunder. A false callto stop communism from taking over the world! The pro war hype of that era would have the nation believe we were in danger- "fear" was our guiding light!

I as a young boy witnessed this abomination of our nation going into that war- stop the communists, they are taking over the world! That was the word of the day. "The domino effect will..."

McCain, to this day... // Arizona Daily Star

"There are two questions we will never have to ask ourselves, 'Who is this man?' and 'Can we trust this man with the presidency?'"

the demonization McCain Palin and republicans was even better on "democracy now" KXCI Radio, oh they had a tail on the demon republicans... and they were mean and nasty too... we even got arrested for being idiots.. the nerve of them.. I must say it was interesting to hear the rant for an uninterupted two hours.... // Arizona Daily Star

A survey being released Thursday by the Mercer consulting firm found 59 percent of companies intend to keep down rising health care costs in 2009 by raising workers' deductibles, copays or out-of-pocket spending limits.

Why is it that a homeowner's insurance policy can have a much smaller deductible and annual premium than a health insurance policy? I mean, geez Louise, it's not like things don't ever go wrong with a house. Something tells me... // Arizona Daily Star

Figuring he could attract a scholarship offer after a standout senior year at Santa Rita High School last winter, Darnell Shumpert turned down an initial offer to walk on to the Arizona Wildcats basketball team.

Article contained some insightful comments from Coach Lute Olson, together with his battalion of new assistants.......or is Lute still annoyed with the local media?

Somebody ( are you listening Mr. Livengood? ) should remind... // Arizona Daily Star

ROME An Italian priest backtracked from his idea to organize an online beauty pageant for nuns, saying Tuesday he had been misunderstood and incurred the protests of the faithful and local religious authorities.

...unease of his religious superiors over the idea.

Silly man, didn't he ever hear of the word "hierarchy" as it applies to squelching freedom of thought and action? What about those who already ordered the calendar? // Arizona Daily Star

Show them the bloody money and they will say, 'what security, its all b...S... lets go'. That's the mentality.

Can't help feeling that the boards are just as much at fault as the players for refusing to tour. Living in London and having seen the effect of the London bombings, can't help feeling the ECB would have argued "the show must go on." Double standards and selective facts win out again, no surprises there! The following quotes on this blog sum it up: "why tour Pakistan, where every bus backfire sounds ominous, when you can drop in on India, where too there are bombs but you can pull down seven figures in six weeks, " and "years back, as a cricket crazy child I was devastated when the Aussie team consisting of my all time heroes Lillee and Greg Chappell decided to cancel their tour... // CricInfo.com

Now that drivers of large SUVs have discovered that gasp! they use a lot of fuel, consumers are flocking to small SUVs that, predictably, need less liquid gold. So that makes Volkswagen's first small, car-based SUV, the 2009 Tiguan, perfectly timed.

Once a devoted Toyota fan for years and years. I made the VW crossover this year and I will never go back. No comparison on handling and comfort. // Arizona Daily Star