It is truly amazing that Congress appears to be totally helpless to avoid the sequester. And it really comes down to one thing. The Republicans can’t bring themselves to compromise. It’s basically a refusal to...
Read MoreIt is very strange to see Joe Scarborough trying to win an economics argument with Paul Krugman. Krugman doesn’t know politics as well as Scarborough, but he does have a Nobel Prize in economics. He also has a track...
Read MoreE.J. Dionne has written an earnest (not tongue-in-cheek) column in the Washington Post calling on the College of Cardinals to select a nun to be the next pope. He has a decent argument even if the idea seems laughable. I’d...
Read MoreCurrently, the only Republican senators from New England are Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire and Susan Collins of Maine. The only Republican senator from the Mid-Atlantic is Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania. There aren’t any...
Read MoreRussia sent a couple of nuclear-capable bombers to circle around Guam, forcing us to scramble intercepters. This makes me a little nervous on a day that a meteorite blew up in the Russian sky with more power than the bombs we...
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