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Save US jobs — level playing field between brick-and-mortar stores and online retailers

The old adage, if something’s too good to be true, it probably is, too often applies to bargain-basement prices for retail goods online. An often ignored loophole in existing sales tax law is giving online retailers an unfair advantage over…

Could the next stop for Putin be Kiev?

The last few days have rocked Ukraine. What started as peaceful protests in November against a corrupt Ukrainian government has evolved in the span of 72 hours into a full-blown Russian military occupation in Crimea. To be sure, Putin moved…

How the tech industry is working to combat veteran unemployment

Our nation’s veterans are struggling to find jobs – especially young veterans. As of November 2013, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported that 9.9 percent of veterans of post-9/11 wars were out of work. That’s 241,000 men and women…

What to expect from the biggest tech show of the year

If you like gadgets, you’re gonna love this: An entire year’s worth of smartphones, high-definition TVs, tablets and more will be unveiled next week at the 2014 Consumer Electronics Show (CES), the premier venue for the world’s gadget makers to…

Why Obama lied about health care

Some people might think Obama’s penchant for lying, repeatedly and blatantly — even when he knows people can check and catch him at it — is a character flaw, but it’s not. It’s ideological, and its roots go back some…

Intellectual Property Rights Matter

While the American public’s and the media’s attention has been focused on the seemingly endless cycle of political dramas that unfold every day–the impending fight over the debt ceiling, the potential government shutdown, the debate over the budget deficit and…

Japanese elderly fight ‘Americanized’ TV

Imagine your television news sprinkled with words that sound vaguely English but are in fact a corrupted form of Japanese. You would surely be confused. That’s the problem facing Japan’s elderly when they tune into the National broadcaster NHK at…

Obama declares a War on Coal

So much for the denials. An administration that throughout its 2012 election campaign denied it was waging a War on Coal has now come out and publicly declared its intention to shut down coal-fired power plants – putting hundreds of…

What men want

Father’s Day 2013 arrives on Sunday. Here’s what we have to show for it: According to a survey conducted by Today Moms, more than half of the 7,000 mothers polled feel more stressed out by their husbands than they do…