Month: October 2009

I don’t know if it would be good policy to, as the Treasury Department recommends, merge the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). But I find it depressing that such...

Roll Call reports: Unable to mount a filibuster on their own and calculating that Democrats are on track to send a health care bill to Obama by year’s end, Senate Republicans figure the only way to stop or reshape the measure is...

 Here, (IN PLAIN TEXT) following, is a comment from DaveW to me in another thread and, below it, the reply that, despite all my efforts, I cannot post there:   DaveW wrote:   <blockquote>   Re: How to...

. Obama lauds Karzai’s decision to agree for election runoff KABUL, Afghanistan (ABC News) – Afghan President Hamid Karzai agreed today to a runoff election against his top challenger after a U.N.-backed audit found...

President Obama just won the Nobel Peace Prize. Not surprisingly there was a lot of negative reaction on the right, but many on the left also felt that the award was premature, and given more for “not being George W....