Speakers' Corner

This category is for more personal posts about the lives and interests of members at PlanetPOV

News and opinion from around US-opolis for Monday, August 22, 2011
News and opinion from around US-opolis for Friday, June 3, 2011
If you have Children, Grandchildren or Nieces and Nephews, at this time of year, many of you may have been to your share of this seasons live children's concerts. I have. My youngest daughters middle school choir performed the song below. Normally this song...
Sunday Sundry edition: Stuff I Like from around US-opolis for Sunday, April 10, 2011.
  Good morning, Planeteers! I trust you all are doing okay, having come through all this angst. Now that Congress is on their five-week PAID vacation, we can all step back a little and take a deep breath. They can't do...
Hello, planeteers! Although I haven't posted here in a while due to an overflow of work, I've been lurking from time to time and am glad to see that the quality of commentary here has not declined in the...
  I never wanted to be a pundit. ~Robert MacNeil   Let's get this out of the way early. Almost all of us dislike punditry for various reasons. There may be a voice or two out there that we all hold in some...
The Italian word for "secret" is segreto. Remember that. About 38 years ago, when Watergate was making a splash across the news media, one Bob Woodward was directed to California, by one of the plea-bargaining culprits and told to speak with...
Is anyone else sick and tired of the constant lies being told to the American people about our federal budgetary woes and our supposed deficit armageddon? OH and let's dispel another myth, there is no federal credit card. US FEDERAL GOVERNMENT debt does not work the same way as an individual or business debt works.
News and opinion from around US-opolis for Thursday, May 26, 2011