Corporations are not people, despite what the Supreme Court says, and they don't need or deserve handouts.

Radical conservatives want to police bedrooms.

Standing up to bullies is the hallmark of a civilized society.

The managers of the big brands have a very clear responsibility. It's attracting and keeping talented people in order to sustain and build the trustworthiness of that brand. There is no clearer objective in the economy. Your economic success depends on expanding and building your economies of trustworthiness.

Globalization and free trade do spur economic growth, and they lead to lower prices on many goods.

Most Americans stopped looking at what was happening through a variety of coping mechanisms - starting with women entering paid work and then everyone working longer hours and using their homes for raising equity and generating more money through debt. The typical household basically staved off the day of reckoning.

We do not want to live in a theocracy. We should maintain that barrier and government has no business telling someone what they ought to believe or how they should conduct their private lives.