Month: April 2005

Richard Rothstein used to be the education writer for the NY Times until apparently forced aside.  He is currently a researcher at the Economic Policy Institute and a visiting professor at Teachers College, Columbia...

As I have said before, my position on Chuck Pennacchio’s U.S. Senate campaign allows me the opportunity to learn a lot more about Rick Santorum (R-VA/PA) than any American should have to. Actually, it is probably for the...

I’m so excited, it’s great to finally feel good about some election results… I’m just expanding here on a couple of comments I made to a thread on dKos… news is still developing, it’s dinner...

Does anyone remember this Seymour M. Hersh story, SELECTIVE INTELLIGENCE: Donald Rumsfeld has his own special sources. Are they reliable?, from the May, 2003 issue of the New Yorker? They call themselves, self-mockingly, the...

I am neither an economist spending my time drawing graphs on a chart nor am I dealer in oil futures. I am simply a businessman who works in an oil dependent industry – as all industry is oil dependent but mine particularly so....