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Have you had trouble writing without using cliches at all? The English language is evolving at an astronomical pace with the internet and all, but what do you write if you want your piece to be timeless, and free of present-day cliches?

Was it Nietzsche who said "Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." If so, he left out the influence that money brings, because here in the US money is power, and the more money one party has the more power they have to make things turn out their way, regardless of how the...

No it doesn't. Our addictions like sugar, tobacco, and alcohol keep our place low on the longevity scale. Preventive maintenance keeps your car in good condition and running properly, and this makes it last longer. Improvements in nutrition and healthier lifestyles would go a long way towards...

In macroeconomics, you learn about how the whole thing works, starting from simple concepts like drawing a supply and demand graph. You add in more factors, and you learn that s/d are not the simple rules everyone thinks they are. You also learn what the GNP, the GDP, the NNP, and the GDI, the...

No. I believe he was elected to do what the Republicans refuse to do: reform the health insurance industry and start making it possible for 50 million Americans to afford medical care, amongst other things. We will find out if this works or not. If not, we can always change it later.

Obama would best do what is good for all of us: Make employees tax-deductible for small businesses. It would go something like this: The more personnel hired, the smaller the proportion of general business taxes and income taxes are to be paid. I am against Obama doing what you describe...

No one gets hired unless there are customers coming in through the doors. People without money and jobs don't shop much.

How about a person in a black coffin. The person has to be alive of course, but you know how that works.

Why won't people accept that big business controls the media and the government? Liberals are powerless to change much of anything these days. If you don't like what you term "liberal media", watch something else, and don't buy the products advertised on the "liberal media" shows. I get my...

Because unlike most of Europe and the rest of the technological world, Americans are still stuck in the 19th century in regards to social, economic, and science subjects. They are stuck in the past this way because they do not value moving forward, and they see some value in staying in an era...