Month: May 2006

The Senate gave final approval yesterday to a five-year, $70 billion tax package that would extend deep cuts to tax rates on dividends and capital gains for two years, effectively locking in all of President Bush’s...

Joel Barkin, the Executive Director of the Progressive States Network, has a column today in (of all places) the New Hampshire Union Leader about cleaning up the on-going stench  in government/politics. What struck me the...

“[I]n times of crisis it’s interesting that people don’t turn to the novel or say, ‘We should all go out to a movie,’ or ‘Ballet would help us.’ It’s always poetry. What we want to...

We have a problem. The American people support the NSA’s program to track every phone call we make. The new survey found that 63 percent of Americans said they found the NSA program to be an acceptable way to investigate...

The Friday Afternoon Cafe Is Now Open! What are you doing this weekend? Got your random 10s ready for happy hour? (Yes, FM, I mean you…) Kindly recommend this cafe and unrecommend the previous...