There is lots of news and commentary addressing the question of using torture. The typical arguments against it revolve around the notion th...

In the media's race to be first with the breaking news Judging from the timing of the reports on it, it would seem that the most remarka...

Bush rather casually decided that laws applied to him only as he saw fit. He was - with Cheney's seeming encouragement - an elected dict...

We can't escape the importance of financial institutions to our economy. If large banks and financial institutions collapse, we're h...

My friend Beth is in the Netherlands, looking into rumors that originated from a rogue group of economists who believe that investment marke...

"Word of the Day today is LIQUIDITY. LIQUIDITY is when you look at your Retirement Account and wet your pants." - Allen Warren Th...

It turned out to be a simple thing, really: there just was not enough demand for facts to sustain profitable news organizations. CNN laid of...

It seems obvous that everyone would be anti-tax. Actually, the anti-tax movement is a strange coalition of the haves and the have-nots. (Thi...

“It’s Disney’s fault,” Maddie sat down breathlessly. “What?” Bernard didn’t have a clue what Maddie was talking about. “The pirates. They’re...

Americans realized that the president came from a new generation when he began texting the polity through freeway signs. Many found it disco...

"All of life is a meditation. Most of it is unintentional." - Joseph Campbell

Bernard got right to it. “Do you suppose that we’ve got causality backwards?” “Meaning?” “Well, we think that the event that comes before ca...

Last year, GM lost $30.9 billion. Exxon made $45.2 billion. The solution to Detroit's woes seem obvious to me: Exxon buys GM and simpl...

As I read the letter, icy fear gripped me. My hands were cold and clammy by the time I was done. It was from my alma mater. And I quote. We ...

I think that it's time we stopped fooling ourselves. It is getting harder and harder for young people to get started in life. They leave...

You have to love the NCAA playoffs. Start with 3 million high school players. Take only 35,000 into college programs. Let only 24,000 play m...

I fret about Obama's economic plan ... his enthusiastic spending ... the way he's taking on everything at once ... and then he does ...

I am a moderate liberal, not a conservative or socialist. Conservatives believe that markets always work and big companies are better to be ...

For once, we weren't meeting for a meal. Bernard wanted to walk on this gorgeous day and I was more than game. It was chamber of commerc...

Freud said that work and love is all there is. And yet work, like air, is nearly invisible to us. I saw "Working" at the Old Globe...