Month: August 2011

Tis the season of book banning again in the central wack zone. This time, Kurt Vonnegut and Sarah Ockler are the targets. I’m surprised to see an op-ed of this tone in the normally right-leaning Indy Star. Maybe its...

. BREAKING NEWS: Afghan president: 31 Americans killed in crash KABUL, Afghanistan (AP/ABC News) – — A military helicopter crashed in eastern Afghanistan, killing 31 U.S. special operation troops and seven Afghan...

Remember when the president suddenly offered the Republicans a grand bargain on deficit reduction and put entitlements on the table if the Republicans would only consider eliminating tax loopholes for private jet owners and...

There is quite a bit of confusion about whether or not Standard & Poor is going to lower the country’s credit rating because the White House claims that S&P made some kind of mathematical error in their...

. I Fervently Disagree with Krugman. Surely with credit-ratings there is often a political undertone. The US government has profited from their `good standing’, however in the last decade the economic policy has been a...