I’ve been wondering why the impact of the financial crisis on the overall retirement “system” hasn’t gotten more attention in the media. We already knew the system was in bad shape before September 2008. According to the Fed’s Survey of Consumer Finances, in 2007, only 60.9% of households where the…
How is it that Republicans always talk about liberals as the ones who want to reinterpret the Constitution? Change the laws? Ignore the long history of "law and order"? IMAGINE A PLACE where soldiers are entitled to burst through doors without warrants and citizens can be locked away without trial.…
No matter how you spin them, the latest polls show that the Republicans have learned nothing from the past eight years. At least the views they are expressing are only shared by a minority of the citizens of the country. Which I suppose, really does make them the minority party...…
While most of the Republican Governors rail against the stimulus, not many are willing to turn down their state's share of the money in these tough times. Then we have Gov. Perry, the hand chosen replacement for George W. Bush... Gov. Rick Perry said Tuesday he’s not sure the state…
Leave it to the Minimalist...Mark Bittman gives us polenta pizza...For breakfast... THERE are many reasons to rethink breakfast. Maybe you’re trying to get more whole grains into your life, figuring they’re more beneficial (and cheaper) than the alternatives, or that they’ll help you lose weight or postpone hunger. Or you’re…
I have spent a half century in Texas. I watched this state go from Democrat to Republican. In just twenty years I have watched us go from Ann Richards to George Bush...From George Bush to Rick Perry. For the last decade Texas politicians have on a number of occasions made…
Rep. Pete Sessions (R-Tex.) suggested last week that the party is learning from the disruptive tactics of the Taliban, and the GOP these days does have the bravado of an insurgent band that has pulled together after a big defeat to carry off a quick, if not particularly damaging, raid…
Jim Hightower has this one right... Thank you, deregulation deities. Food corporations regularly run safety tests, but – here's the cute part – they are not required to reveal the results to federal or state regulators. So, they don't. It's a shameful game of regulatory hide & seek. Meanwhile, the…
