Every once in a while, prominent people say things they don’t think will be heard. Apparently, President Obama went off on the Republicans, John Boehner and Paul Ryan when a mic was open that he didn’t know about. I actually think Obama’s comments were juicy and terrific — mostly on the mark and sincere.
Some time before July 8th, there will be a vote in Congress on raising the federal debt ceiling. Many Americans think that if you just cap the debt ceiling, the American government will be forced to stop stacking up debts.
The decibel level of vulgarity and character assassination on the blog seem to have subsided. Let’s not go down that road again — at all. I am turning off the controls monitoring comments for the time being. I hope that great debates, civilly deployed, now take shape here.
Philanthropist and complex systems theorist George Soros shared his views on “The Emerging Economic and Political Order: What Lies Ahead?” at the recent, much reported on major economic policy conference at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire sponsored by the Institute for New Economic Thinking.
Recently, a profile ran of me in the Washington gay newspaper, the Washington Blade, and in it I noted that Nellie’s Sports Bar was my favorite bar in DC. The above ad is in part why.
President Barack Obama gave a speech on the federal budget last night that is being applauded by many who were once his most ardent supporters but who have been skeptical of him of late — and pilloried by those on the right who sense their power in just saying no to anything the White House…
Taiwan has an “urgent” need for a new fleet of F-16s, at least according to Senator Richard Lugar. On April 1, he wrote a letter to Secretary of State Hilary Clinton warning that “Taiwan has legitimate defense needs and its existing capabilities are decaying.
Richard Koo, Chief Economist at the Nomura Research Institute, was one of the headliners at a significant conference organized this past weekend by the Institute for New Economic Thinking.
After the horrific shooting tragedy in Tucson in January of this year, many folks across the political spectrum began asking whether the ease of access that people have to assault weapons capacity — or the ease of circumventing background checks by buying weapons at gun shows — was where it should be.