Month: December 2008

Cross posted from The European Tribune. The Euro celebrates its 10th. Birthday on 1st. January.  The exchange rates between the founding currencies were fixed from 1st. January 1999 when the Euro began to circulate in the...

Brendan’s war to save Philly public pools and libraries gets some serious recognition in the Philadelphia Weekly. Part wiseass and part history buff, Brendan Skwire isn’t the ordinary white-gentrifier-in-the-’hood that he...

This scene certainly has the air of plausibility. Patrick Tyler paints the picture in his new book A World of Trouble: The White House and the Middle East–From the Cold War to the War on Terror. DCI George Tenet is in...

Title get your attention? Good. Because the real question my title begs is this one: What jobs? They (i.e., our government in the “person” of the Bureau of Labor Statistics) tell us that the current rate of...

Even though Republicans show few signs that they are humbled by their recent electoral losses and almost no ability to change, they will change because people adapt to their environment, and the power structure in Washington has...