Month: May 2011

There was a weird roll call on the bill to raise the debt limit with no strings attached. The bill failed 97-318, with seven voting ‘present’ in protest. Most progressives, but by no means all, voted in the...

The financial services industry (please, do not call what they produce financial products, please), and particularly those who deal in the commodities markets (you know, stuff like pork belly futures and concentrated orange...

. F-secure Q&A analysis of stuxnet computer worm effects Siemens Process Controllers Apparently the stuxnet worm did most harm in the ultra-centrifuges plant at Natanz in Iran. (New York Times) – In early 2008 the...

Sometime today, the House Republicans will hold a vote on whether or not to raise the debt limit with no strings attached, as the Obama administration has requested. The idea is to prove to the administration that the health of...

Last week, Sarah Palin announced a bus tour of America and managed to get her name splashed all across the nation’s headlines…again. But, if the Republicans are despondent about their presidential candidates,...