| Jan 9, 2012 | Peace / SecurityPresident Barack Obama ordered up yet another strategic review last year. This one explicitly aimed at bringing the nation’s military posture into line with something we can afford. In response to that review, his administration forged a plan, unveiled during...
| Jan 2, 2012 | Peace / SecurityFrom Mitt Romney’s juvenile $10,000 bet with Rick Perry to Ron Paul’s declaration that death by untreated illnesses is “what freedom is all about,” the Republican presidential candidates haven’t missed an opportunity to sound off-base and...
| Dec 19, 2011 | Economy / BusinessLike something out of a bad movie, the failed congressional supercommittee plotted to use “chained COLAs” to cut future Social Security benefits for America’s retired workers. No, chained COLA isn’t some kind of carbonated beverage gone bad....
| Nov 28, 2011 | Environment / HealthI’m not out to Grinch anybody’s holiday cheer, but we’ve got a serious situation here. A tsunami of scientific studies is showing that global warming isn’t only real, it’s happening faster than we thought and our window of opportunity to...
| | Economy / BusinessMost Americans are now waking up from the Thanksgiving holiday and the bruising Washington battles of a failed congressional “supercommittee” with a giant hangover. The hangover results from the lack of clear answers to the most important question facing...