| Towing of uninsured drivers' cars to start in February
It is shameful how many people drive around without insurance, car seats, seat belts. I think a severe punishment needs to be imposed on those parents that do not secure their child in car seats. I see too many kids hanging out of windows, jumping in vehicles and they are not secured. .
Gift receipt is no guarantee for refund of price paid
Orentlicher wrote to Dick's customer service and got the same answer in an e-mail.
"This is not some small company," Orentlicher said. "It's a billion-dollar chain listed on the New York Stock Exchange. How can they not have the capability to look up past purchases?"
Attempts to reach the spokesman for Dick's were unsuccessful.
Fortunately, Orentlicher was able to get the original receipt from his mother-in-law, after an awkward explanation about why he was returning the jacket and needed to know the price she had paid. He said Dick's is issuing him an additional $10 refund.
But it's another rude wake-up call for consumers. About 40 percent of us return holiday gifts, the National Retail Federation said.
The problem is exacerbated by the fact that many shoppers don't feel comfortable asking someone what they paid for a gift.
Kid or not, McCain makes a comeback
"When the pundits declared us finished, I said, 'I am going to New Hampshire, where the voters don't let you make their decision for them,' " a beaming McCain said to a roar of approval. "They said: 'How are you going to do it? You are down in the polls; you don't have the money.' And I told them, 'I am going to New Hampshire and I am going to tell them the truth.' "
That brought another roar from a crowd of hundreds, which repeatedly chanted "Mac is back! Mac is back!" and "John McCain, John McCain!"
The comeback began in earnest in September, when McCain launched a "No Surrender" bus tour across Iowa and New Hampshire.
By the time he arrived in New Hampshire on Thursday, a slight breeze had turned into a full wind in McCain's sails. With crowds swelling and allies from his 2000 presidential race returning, the candidate began comparing himself to Lazarus, saying that he was capturing "lightning in a bottle."
McCain took the stage just after 9 p.m.
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