| Feb 6, 2013 | Economy / BusinessThe modern federal income tax turns 100 this year, and historians are already holding special events to commemorate the anniversary. But if we really want to understand just what the federal income tax has accomplished — and failed to accomplish — over the last 100...
| May 14, 2012 | Economy / BusinessBack in 1863, a short story took the American reading public by storm. Edward Everett Hale’s The Man without a Country told the tale of a poor treasonous soul sentenced to spend the rest of his life endlessly sailing the world in perpetual exile, as a prisoner...
| Apr 16, 2012 | Economy / BusinessNot only is Mitt Romney the GOP’s rich-man candidate for president, but his last name actually spells “money.” Just drop the “R,” move the “m” in front of the “o” — and there it is! In fact, put the...
| Aug 22, 2011 | Environment / HealthWhile it might seem rare these days for Republicans and Democrats to work together on anything, two Republican members of the House of Representatives recently joined with one of their colleagues in the Democratic Party to introduce an important new piece of renewable...
| May 2, 2011 | Economy / BusinessMy whole life’s Been in a trough; Since my apartment Got sold off. As the Bible pointedly reminds us, rains fall alike upon the just and the unjust. Nowhere is this axiom more pointed than in securing a place to live. Sure, maybe some of those luckless...
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