Day: December 22, 2008

As Obama is leading the US government back to science, it is time for a pop quiz courtesy of NewScientist. For full disclosure, I didn't do half bad. ;-)

Open Left reports that John Boehner is advertising for "credentialed" economists who oppose the upcoming stimulus package. Evidently the "credentialed" economist community sees the economic problems we face sufficiently serious…

It takes a lot of committment to run a blog, and while some of them have gone by the wayside this year, several others have popped up.  I'll start off…

While he admits to having been duped, I don’t happen to believe that the letter below was actually written by Tom Carper.

Where are the threats to turn the IRS on me? Where are is the simmering violent psychopathy?

No promise to rip my head off and give it to his dog to use as a chew toy = no authentication that tom Carper ever even glanced at the boilplate below the fold.

it wasn't Clinton's fault... As for Mr. Bush’s banking regulators, they once brandished a chain saw over a 9,000-page pile of regulations as they promised to ease burdens on the…