Month: April 2010

Sen. Bob Bennett of Utah, the man legendary Mormon columnist Jack Anderson referred to as “Howard Hughes’s man in Washington,” is going to be the first incumbent senator to lose his job this year. A new Salt...

Check out Danielle Nierenberg’s Op-Ed, based on research for the Worldwatch Institute’s Nourishing the Planet project, featured on the front page of the Zambia Daily Mail. Cross posted from Border Jumpers, Danielle...

Oh that financial reform bill is so awful, so horrible. It might keep you from selling your baseball cards on e-bay! It might make pay-pal go under! It might make it impossible to buy (gasp) that dream of every Real American...

It’s mainly the Republicans’ fault but politics is boring me at the moment, so I thought I would share a favorite bit of prose from Chapter Three of the The Great Gatsby, wherein narrator Nick Carraway introduces us...

The Financial Reform cloture vote failed 57-41. According to CSPAN, Ben Nelson of Nebraska voted against cloture. I assume Harry Reid did as well, but only so he can reserve the right to move for reconsideration later. I guess...