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Richard Hoover, an astrobiologist at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, thinks he may have found bacteria in a meteorite.
Yes, you read that right. The question is, is he right?
I don’t know. Dr. Hoover has published his findings in the online Journal of Cosmology (see below for more about this journal), and it was reported today by Fox News...

Alternate Inflation Hedges : COPPER & NICKEL

Robots, vending machines and touch screen kiosks are increasingly replacing human workers.

Automation — long a force in agriculture and manufacturing — is accelerating in the retail sector, a trend that could hamper efforts to bring down the nation's stubbornly high jobless rate.

In an industry that employs nearly 1 in 10 Americans and has...

Submitted by Phoenix Capital Research on 03/04/2011 20:32 -0500

I first published this essay in the Summer of 2009. At that time the whole world believed Obama’s Stimulus Program was working at that the stupid greenshoot recovery was underway. Today I’d like to reprint this essay because the same structural issues that plagued the US in 2009...

By John Blake, CNN
March 4, 2011 9:01 a.m. EST



White marchers gather at Glenn Beck rally this summer. Were they driven by racial fears or patriotic sentiment?

(CNN) -- They marched on Washington to reclaim civil rights.

They complained of voter intimidation at the polls.

They called for ethnic studies...