Month: February 2013

I hereby declare Bernie Taupin a Rock and Roll God. However, my favorite Elton John album is Tumbleweed Connection because it is pure Americana in the tradition of The Grateful Dead, only better. Levon wears his war wound like a...

Greg Sargent reports on the intention of Democratic Senate leadership to introduce a fix for sequestration that offers (and specifies) a mixture of new revenues and spending cuts. This is controversial because it amounts to...

Ireland has spent about €64 Billion on bailing out (mostly German, French and British) bondholders in failed Irish banks. To put this in perspective, this is more than any other EU country, including much larger economies...

This Benghazi thing is so far over the top now. The right is treating it like some My Pet Goat moment or something. It’s hard to even respond to these dimwits because I don’t want to in any way diminish the...

When it comes to the Republicans and the looming sequester, Greg Sargent correctly observes: The reflexive ideological opposition to cutting defense (which Republicans have long equated with weakness) is running headlong into...