We can hardly expect Congress to get organized when we are delivering mixed messages that can only result in more political pandering and less meaningful action.

FORBES: We Are All Democrats Now

I'm a real Scotland fan and I want to see them do well but I can hardly condone what we saw in Cardiff.

BBC: Brown concern over Scots plight

Jo is so tough, in fact, that when she does cry, we can hardly watch.

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If our own dreams are small and self-centered, we can hardly blame inventors for producing trifles.

WSJ: Why Modern Innovation Traffics in Trifles

But we can hardly all work for Amtrak and the Post Office.

FORBES: How Congress Wages An Economic Race War

We can hardly wait to find out what Jobs has in store.

FORBES: New iPhone Is Already Here

While that's hardly a chore, we can envisage some moments when we'd like some way of flicking that switch while we're on the road.

ENGADGET: Eye-Fi Pro X2 16GB Class 10 hands-on Hands-on

Skeptics will claim that the perpetrators of horrific acts like the Aurora shootings are such aberrations that we can hardly build public policy around their evil behavior.

CNN: The overwhelming maleness of mass homicide

We can hardly wait to find out what happens next.

FORBES: Student Loan Bubble Sets Up To Be Subprime Disaster Part Deux

"What I challenge is all the sorts of manipulations and toxic products and excessive bonuses that can hardly be justified that we've come upon over the past few years, " he said.

CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

We can hardly be complacent in India.

WSJ: Indians Are Better Off than Americans

We hardly notice as the walls go up around what we can do on the Internet.

FORBES: Dystopia In The Lovely Walled Gardens

Nice work if you can get it but hardly what we would typically view as an example of free enterprise.

FORBES: The Corporate Blackmailing Of America Is Now All the Rage

As far as I can tell, we have hardly even begun to discuss the subject.

FORBES: $100,000 Cancer Drugs, Ineffective $50,000 Back Operations, Unnecessary MRI Scans Will Bankrupt America: A Forbes Conversation

That however can hardly be a source of surprise when we increasingly ignore the true meaning of Christmas.

BBC: An eye on simplicity

One can hardly go a day without seeing an article touting the end of the University as we know it as the rise of online education, and in particular Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs), promises to unleash a wave of creative destruction in higher education.

FORBES: The Imminent Shakeout? Disruptive Innovation and Higher Education

You know we had a - I had a chat with the manager on Friday - sorry I can hardly hear you David, there's a police helicopter, it's making a lot of noise - yeah I had a chat with the manager on Friday and hopefully we'll get things sorted out for another season.

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