Month: January 2014

Yes, Virginia, if you are a right wing politician there is a Santa Claus. In fact, there are two of them, and they raised (excuse me for repeating the information in the title) over FOUR HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS for the 2012...

Here is something for economic illiterates to consider: The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reported last month that, while the emergency UI [unemployment insurance] program would cost $25.7 billion for another year, it would...

Classy.

Not content to assert that “Tiger Moms”  are the bestest, meanest, and most self-sacrificing of mother’s (and ignoring all the subsequently reported factual evidence that refutes her claim), Chua and her...

It isn’t just me who is so gobsmacked by The Stupid we have to endure to participate in the national political discourse that I am left sputtering bile. Here is Charles P. Pierce having a conniption: Now that [The]...