Month: July 2010

I’ll leave it to someone who is, you know, black, to respond to Jeeny Beth Martin and Jeff Meckler, but I do have one thing to say. You should read Tim Wise’s comprehensive list of white racist activities since Obama...

The Times has published an article by my old friend Charles Bremner, James Harding, his Editor, and David Charter, Times Brussels correspondent including an interview the latter two conducted with with José Manuel Barroso,...

What do all the income taxes collected (as opposed to FICA, etc.) get spent on? One organization has a handy pie chart which summarizes it nicely for the last Fuiscal Year, 2009: Current military” includes Dept. of Defense ($653...

For me, the most forgivable offense is to tell the truth when you shouldn’t. So, I’m not mad at press secretary Robert Gibbs for admitting what everyone knows: that the Democrats could conceivably lose control of the...

From CNN: Former Vice President Dick Cheney recently underwent heart surgery and is recovering in a Virginia hospital, said a statement issued by Cheney on Wednesday. During the operation last week at the Inova Fairfax Heart and...