Tomorrow morning President Obama hosts some friends and enemies at his big white house. They’ll powwow about bills for this and bills for that. Who’ll pay them? Will we pay them at all? Can we...
The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. mjm...
Please. . . This whole GOP primary thing is sidesplitting and light years beyond ludicrous, but not as comical as it could be. Since all news, good and bad, is first of all entertainment, you Republicans...
Happy 4th!! “Please click “Read More . . .” E.J. Dionne’s column today, What our Declaration really said, addresses two major beliefs of Tea Party political fundamentalists. Below is an excerpt from a column...
“Death hung like an obsessive shadow over the life and work of Ernest Hemingway . . . He was once quoted as saying, ‘There is only one theme for a writer. That is death and...
The report yesterday from East Hampton about the discovery of a $400 ATM receipt would normally be reported only on the earth’s slowest news day ever. But when one considers the balance remaining was $99, 664, 731.94, well, that...
“No more fooling around, not in this place. We’ll pull our pants up and make a pile of money.”Alexis Zorba . . . the Greek Today, the Greek Parliament approved an austerity plan – favorable to...
Unanticipated consequences 6666666666666 IF there were such a thing as Chapter 11 for politicians, the Republican push to extend the unaffordable Bush tax cuts would amount to a bankruptcy filing. The nation’s public debt...
Homeland Security Mans Up And Confronts Nonagenarian. At the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) a timely new focus on the “totally elderly” is being hurried off the drawing boards. This comes in the wake...
