| Mar 7, 2011 | Economy / BusinessThe budget wars have begun. Duck! President Obama delivered the first salvo by presenting his $3.5 trillion proposal for the 2012 fiscal year to Congress in a telephone book-sized document. It was very Barack–measured and balanced. It cut a little here, put on a...
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| Feb 28, 2011 | Economy / BusinessInstead of cutting state and federal budgets, the United States should crack down on the corporate tax dodgers thumbing their noses at us. Across the nation, states are making deep cuts that will wreck the quality of life for everyone to close budget gaps that total...
| | Economy / BusinessWhen the riots in Tunisia began I went out into the streets and shouted, “Today we are all Tunisians.” “Right on,” a middle-aged guy with a Keith Richards face shouted back. When the riots in Egypt started I went out into the streets and...
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| Feb 21, 2011 | Economy / BusinessFor me, the most significant statistic coming out of this year’s Super Bowl wasn’t the 31-25 score in the Green Bay Packers’ hard-fought victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers. Nor was it the $1.3 billion cost of the new, monstrously huge football...
