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<p>He has already signed big-hair rockers Poison, an alliance that cuts across stylistic boundaries about as far as you can go.</p> <p>"We make as much money if we sell 100,000 copies this way as we made when we sold a million copies through a major label," Poison bassist Bobby Dall told Billboard magazine.</p>

DART: From Dorothy E. Cole of Ithaca: "No bank robber would get as much as these CEOs give themselves. The tax on these CEO's should be raised where they wouldn't profit from their greed. People lose jobs, pensions because of companies going broke feeding these hogs."

Congress needs to be very careful that in tackling corporate greed they don't throw the baby out with the bath water, warns Richard Rahn in today's Washington Times. Citing the dangers inherent in setting strict accounting standards for corporations without making allowances for margins of error or individual circumstances, Rahn, a senior fellow of the Discovery Institute and an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute shows how imprecise accounting standards can be. "To obtain a bank loan, you are often asked to produce a personal balance sheet and income statement," he writes. "If you were told that if you made...

FReepers, please help me: Please let me know if this line of thinking has been explored by anyone in the conservative press. Provide links if you can. Thank you. THE CLINTON ERA During the Clinton era, business flourished – or seemed to, anyway. These were the days when greed ran rampant, when telling the truth was not important, when danger seemed far away, and when being the "good guy" was sneered at, and arrogance was rewarded. Spinning was raised to an art form. Clinton himself embodied all of these qualities. He was preoccupied with raising money, lying, ignoring danger and...

<p>Dick Gephardt's appalled. Tom Daschle's chagrined. Congress, in general, is at wit's end.</p> <p>It's time for us to do something, they say. WorldCom. Enron. Global Crossing. Enough.</p> <p>Here's what I say: not so fast. Before you start policing other peoples' books, police your own.</p>

The Bermuda Tax Triangle [S] tanley Works ought to change its name to Stanley Flees. The maker of distinctive black-and-yellow tools that for 159 years has made its home in New Britain, Conn., is planning to reincorporate in Bermuda in order to stiff Uncle Sam. Stanley is only the latest in an alarming exodus of greedy companies, but the prospect of the venerable firm taking off for a tax haven caused one local congressman to note that Benedict Arnold, too, left Connecticut and sailed off to Bermuda. Though perfectly legal, Stanley's move would be an accounting gimmick, aimed solely at...

Do you enjoy burning mix CD's from you personal collection? Do you own an MP3 player and rip tracks to listen to? Do you find it convenient to videotape your favorite shows and movies? Sen Fritz (Foghorn Leghorn) Hollings has proposed a bill that would make it a federal crime to do any of those things. You'd be subject to fines and possible imprisonment if it passes. I'm hardly a pinko who thinks that music should be free, but I find it outrageous that the government wants to tell me that I can't burn CD's I've bought and paid for...

This whole safe sex issue/abortion issue has been made out by the press to be a moral debate but has anyone actually noticed the money involved? Here's something to think about, Liberals keep screaming that schools need to teach safe sex, that abstinence isn't working, and that condoms need to be distributed in schools. Well, here's why I have a problem with it. Give me the logic that says a comporation should be allowed to use government employees to teach possible consumers how to use their product, advertise their product and in essence endorse the product. Even better, those condoms...