March 20, 2012–Republicans today unveiled their budget plan, which laid out a vision of this country’s economic future in stark contrast to the budget proposed by President Obama. Representative Paul Ryan, chairman of the House Budget Committee and chief architect of the GOP plan, said, “This is about putting an end to empty promises from [...]

Heaven help us if newspapers ever stop being the dominant source of newsgathering in America. Exhibit A: The New York Times in today’s (Sunday) edition ran a fascinating piece, complete with charts and graphs, on the gap between the public’s perception of the government safety net and the reality. A majority of those polled, for [...]

This just in: Warren Buffett and Bill Gates, the last two Americans with health insurance, announced today that they can no longer afford it. This country has finally achieved what the naysayers refused to believe was possible. All Americans now have equal access to health care. None.

Yesterday, the last of the recall elections in Wisconsin were decided. All told, more than $35 million was spent to overturn two seats in the Wisconsin statehouse. That was just for the campaigns. I don’t know how much the state of Wisconsin spent to hold the elections. The total for the nine recall elections was [...]

Jon M. Huntsman, the former governor of Utah, announced his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination on Tuesday. Speaking from the same spot that Ronald Reagan announced his campaign for president, Mr. Huntsman promised a polite, civil campaign. Huntsman, because of his reputation as a pragmatic centrist, may have some difficulty attracting the more right-leaning [...]

Regnery Publishing announced today that it has signed Sarah Palin to write a definitive history of the United States. Regnery is the leading American conservative publisher. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but a source close to Ms. Palin has confirmed that the deal includes an an advance in the high six figures.   [...]

This just in: The Sydney (Australia) Morning Herald reports that the Rapture predicted by American televangelist Harold Camping has not happened. Camping said that the end of the world would begin today at 6pm local time in each time zone with strong earthquakes. That time has already come in Sydney, with no evidence that the [...]

You have to hand it to House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan.  Having his head handed to him by the public for his initial attempt to eviscerate Medicare hasn’t fazed him in the least. He’s at it again, this time blaming our economic troubles on health care reform. He begins his thesis accurately enough, stating that [...]

Bob Herbert’s final column for the New York Times is a must read for anyone concerned with the direction this country is heading. Herbert has been, for the last 18 years, and especially in the years since the economy headed south, a rare consistent voice for the poor, the downtrodden, the foreclosed, the unemployed, the [...]

The New York Times reports that, as social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter gain in popularity, blogging has lost its appeal for the tech-savvy younger set, who find they don’t have the time or the inclination to write long form articles in the age of 140-character tweets. It figures. I’m permanently doomed to [...]