Economics

The $700 Billion Robbery

Today the men who run our country for the next three months, Ben Bernanke and Richard Paulson, formally asked the American taxpayers to bend over and take a platinum phallus to their anuses.

Public Health Crisis Roundup

Gloucester, MA:  Alleged teen pregnancy 'pact' quadruples the normal number of pregnancies at Gloucester High School.  It's a localized public health anomaly that will be sensationalized by the media,

Great Question, Great Answer

The question, from today's editorial in the LA Times: The interesting question is why the U.S. economy, beneficiary since 9/11 of the largest military spending binge in history, now