I wonder if this story will get the same media attention as say John Edwards: Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and his wife, Maria Shriver, separated after she learned he had fathered a child more than a decade ago — before his first run for office — with a longtime member of their household staff. […]
Suddenly the right is upset that the dollar has taken a big decline, but Barry Ritholtz states the facts, something the right seems unable to comprehend: Where were all you concerned dollar bulls earlier in the decade? It strikes me that like the late-to-discover inflation, you folks cannot spot a trend until it bites you […]
Houston – we have a serious problem: More than 27,000 abandoned oil and gas wells remain in the Gulf of Mexico and no one’s checking to see if they are leaking, reports an investigation by the Associated Press. The AP, calling the Gulf an “environmental minefield,” says the oldest of these wells were abandoned in […]
This is another sign of the times: Tax Day is a dreaded deadline for millions, but for nearly half of U.S. households it’s simply somebody else’s problem. About 47 percent will pay no federal income taxes at all for 2009. Either their incomes were too low, or they qualified for enough credits, deductions and exemptions […]
Today we have another episode in the dementia that is John McCain. Remember the maverick? Well then you must be thinking of the wrong person, because John McCain says he never called himself a maverick. For more than a decade, famed ‘Straight Talk Express’ rider John McCain has had ‘maverick’ as his and his supporters’ […]
A lot of people are saying that the IPad will change the way we access the internet. After 15 years of web development and over a quarter century of software development, all I can say is “here we go again”. Apple has put some amazing technology into the IPad, but overall it is still a […]
The buckeye state isn’t growing that fast: Ohio could lose two seats in Congress as a result of waning population growth according to Census numbers. The figures, which were released on Wednesday, show that the Buckeye State’s population grew by only 14,573 people over the past decade, or one-tenth of one percent. Ohio Gov. Ted […]
Image via Wikipedia Who could have imagined something like this? The computerized voting machines used by many voters in the 23rd district had a computer virus – tainting the results, not just from those machines known to have been infected, but casting doubt on the accuracy of counts retrieved from any of the machines. I […]
CNN has ran a very interesting poll that gives us a lot to think about: The poll indicates that a slight majority, 51 percent, of Republicans would prefer to see the GOP in their area nominate candidates who agree with them on all the major the issues even if they have a poor chance of […]
Yeah right: Are Americans dying too soon? The answer is yes. When it comes to “preventable deaths” — an array of illnesses and injuries that should not kill at an early age — the United States trails other industrialized nations and has been falling further behind over the past decade. And here is what really […]