In a winding series of bizarre conflations and assertions Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz concludes that if only we could make the “top 1%” less wealthy, we would have a better society.
In a winding series of bizarre conflations and assertions Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz concludes that if only we could make the “top 1%” less wealthy, we would have a better society.
This popular post was originally published on Monday, December 13. One way or the other, Sarah Palin will have the biggest impact on the GOP’s chances to win the presidency in 2012. Her recent editorial in the Wall Street Journal supporting Rep. Paul Ryan’s economic deficit reduction and economic growth plan is simply her latest [...]
One way or the other, Sarah Palin will have the biggest impact on the GOP’s chances to win the presidency in 2012. Her recent editorial in the Wall Street Journal supporting Rep. Paul Ryan’s economic deficit reduction and economic growth plan is simply her latest in a series of comments on the important issues for [...]
An updated version of the first blog I ever wrote (July 3, 2006) Warren Buffet was back on television last weekend telling ABC News how the rich don’t pay their fair share of taxes. One would suppose that just the very fact of that statement, coming from a man worth $50 billion or so, who pays [...]
This week’s juxtaposition of Janet Napolitano’s theater of the absurd roll-out of new airport screening methods with the conviction of “man caused disaster doer,” Ahmed Ghailani, for conspiring to destroy property, almost makes one forget how bad our economic circumstances are. When Napolitano was asked by reporters Monday “will you insist that {women wearing hijabs} [...]
At first I thought this was a joke—”Juan Williams firing may be violation of Foreign Agents Act “. The lobbyist group, The Center for Security Policy, has suggested CAIR (The Council on American Islamic Relations) was responsible for Williams’ firing. To the extent they are major contributors to NPR or its parent, The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, [...]
Lame, limp and self absorbed attention seeking is not what most of us are looking for this year in our politicians. That’s what the Democrat Party is for. But Republican House members, Congressmen Eric Cantor, Paul Ryan, and Kevin McCarthy have released a new book entitled Young Guns, featuring themselves on the cover, apparently designed [...]
The countless articles and commentaries about the proposed Mosque near Ground Zero never fail to include the proviso “no one disputes their constitutional right to build it……….”. From the always odious Keith Olbermann to the always entertaining Ann Coulter it is de rigueur to make this point when discussing the proposed Mosque. Why we need [...]
It is hard to believe it has been only 19 months since the president’s inauguration. But in “political time” it has been much longer. When a president seeks “fundamental change”, and actually means it, political time expands as he attempts to break through decades of built up political boundaries. Remember how Obama bragged he accomplished [...]
