Negotiations to avert the “fiscal cliff” have not gone well. After meeting with Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, House Speaker John Boehner said Geithner offered no “specific” plan for averting the looming end-of-year fiscal crisis, adding: “This is not a game.” […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Egyptian version of the “Arab spring” took a decidedly bad turn Thursday when President Mohamed Morsi assigned dictatorial powers over the legislature and courts to the presidency. The undertone of concern that had been voiced over the Muslim Brotherhood […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For just a moment, park your own personal feelings about “transgendered” individuals and accept that there are some people in our society that don’t identify with their birth gender. Your own beliefs have nothing to do with this story; let’s […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Washington is not a place for the morally robust. Good people come to the nation’s capital and whether its power, money or the glare of the spotlight, they sink to the depths of depravity. Sometimes the fall is brought about […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Curse of the Pelosi The Democratic House Caucus leadership decisions are right up near the top of the list of the great mysteries of life. Nancy Pelosi led the Democrats into its worst massacre in the 2010 mid-term elections and […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
California is an interesting place. The state’s government puts in place outrageous public union pensions that it cannot possibly fund. The state raises property taxes to fund its runaway spending only to have to roll back the taxes sinking deeper […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Lost deep down on the ballots in this past election was the Libertarian candidate for president, former Governor of New Mexico Gary Johnson. Johnson was also a candidate for the GOP nomination this past year, though many will not recall […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Much the same as Hurricane Katrina was a defining moment of the George W. Bush presidency so was Hurricane Sandy for Barack Obama. While Mitt Romney was moving steadily in the polls, when the Northeast was pounded by Sandy it […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Just four days before Election Day the last jobs report of the campaign was released indicating an increase in the unemployment rate to 7.9 percent. The report detailed 171,000 new jobs created at the same time that the number of […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…