A Money Too Far
So, is Greece the next Lehman? No. It isn’t either big enough or interconnected enough to cause global financial markets to freeze up the way they did in 2008. Whatever caused that brief 1,000-point swoon in the Dow, it wasn’t justified by actual ...
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A Money Too Far
I had read that one big problem Greece has is rampant tax evasion. Aside from shedding unnecessary costs as mentioned above that should be spun off as businesses or charities, they should look at chasing the money that's owed to the government but that isn't being paid. Sure, that's an unpopular view, but before the government asks ordinary taxpaying citizens (I'm assuming there are some in Greece, and certainly in the rest of the Euro zone) to bail out the country shouldn't the people who are shirking their portion first be made to cough up their share? Same goes for here in the US with offshore post office boxes serving as business addresses that allow companies to shirk their part of running the country? Granted that will be difficult to get past their bought and paid for congress, but isn't that what's necessary?
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New Alarm Bells About Chemicals and Cancer
The President’s Cancer Panel is the Mount Everest of the medical mainstream, so it is astonishing to learn that it is poised to join ranks with the organic food movement and declare: chemicals threaten our bodies.
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The Gun Lobby’s Long Shadow
I am a member of the NRA and support the NRA and it's fight to keep our CIVIL RIGHTS! The SECOND AMENDMENT is just as important as the FIRST! And it it the obligation of the Congress to protect, not diminish those RIGHTS! Time for the liberal press that loves the First Amendment show some enthusiasm to support the Second Amendment as well.
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Congress, Up in Arms
There seems to be a strong sentiment in Congress that the only constitutional right suspected terrorists have is the right to bear arms.
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Leading With Two Minds
They say that intellectual history travels slowly, and by hearse. The old generation has to die off before a new set of convictions can rise and replace entrenched ways of thinking. People also say that a large organization is like an aircraft car...
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The Gun Lobby’s Long Shadow
While the rest of the nation comes to grips with fresh concerns about terrorism, domestic and foreign, Congress is wrapped up in the peculiar obsessions of the gun lobby — most of which are certain to make Americans less safe in their homes and on...
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The Last Days of the Dragon Lady
FIFTY years ago today, the Soviet Union announced that it had shot down an American U-2 spy plane and that its pilot, Francis Gary Powers, was alive.
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Signs of Neanderthals Mating With Humans
About 1 percent to 4 percent of the DNA of non-Africans today comes from Neanderthals, a team in Germany reported, though some archaeologists are skeptical.
Friday, May 7, 2010
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