Month: November 2012

Here’s the thoroughly dishonest Conn Carroll’s fairly accurate depiction of Tim Geithner’s proposal to the Republican leadership: 1. An immediate $1 trillion tax hike through higher top marginal income tax...

I’m trying not to think too hard about this. Is it double reverse psychology? If the Republicans truly want John Kerry to leave the Senate to serve as the next Secretary of State, surely they know that saying as much only...

Beginning yesterday morning, all internet communication with Syria was cut off.  According to internet monitoring firm Renesys:Starting at 10:26 UTC on Thursday, 29 November (12:26pm in Damascus), Syria’s...

Paul Ryan is listed as Number 8 on Foreign Policy’s list of the top 100 Global Thinkers. Barack Obama is listed at Number 7. Both Clintons and the two Gates (Bill and Melinda) are listed ahead of them. For some other...

Read this and try not to laugh your ass off: Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) on Thursday rejected a White House offer to avoid the “fiscal cliff” that would include $1.6 trillion in tax increases, $400 billion in...