| Feb 14, 2011 | Economy / BusinessWith this year marking the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, get ready for grand pontificating on its meaning for whites, African-Americans, the nation, and the world. Here’s what it meant for my family. My great-grandfather Albert Cordner was a private in the...
| | Economy / BusinessToday, war and taxes remain our nation’s two most tragic issues. While we haven’t quite finished losing those pointless shooting wars, we’ve surely lost the tax war. Yes, President Barack Obama has surrendered. You saw it on TV. He said right out in...
| Feb 7, 2011 | Economy / BusinessAcross the country, state legislatures are grappling with billion-dollar deficits. The prevailing narrative among Republicans–and many Democrats–is cut, cut, cut. But in some of the nation’s most populous states, a few legislators are pushing back....
| | Economy / BusinessWhen you dance with the devil, never fool yourself into thinking that you’re leading. That would be my 50-cents-worth of advice to President Barack Obama as he remakes his presidency into a Clintonesque corporate enterprise. Following last fall’s...
| Jan 31, 2011 | Economy / BusinessThe Republicans told us what they wanted to do in their “Pledge to America” last year: cut government, slash taxes, and shrink the national debt. But they didn’t tell us how they were going to do it. Now they have. Basically, it involves ripping the...
| Jan 24, 2011 | Economy / BusinessFollowing World War II, the United States produced something the world had never seen: a mass middle class. For the first time, a majority of a major nation’s people had real money left over after paying for basic food and shelter. New York and California served...
