Tag: democracy in the middle east

The big news of the day is the fall of Tripoli and that raises the question if it will embolden more rebels in the Middle East to do the same: The implosion of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s 41-year-old rule will put a new spring in the step of the Arab revolutions and demonstrate once again […]

Apparently when Bush had the national debt limit raised to $9 trillion recently, that wasn’t enough: A $2.7 trillion budget plan pending before the House would raise the federal debt ceiling to nearly $10 trillion, less than two months after Congress last raised the federal government’s borrowing limit. The provision — buried on page 121 […]