Our system of borrowing, lending, and financing investments by both businesses and households is a national treasure, one which we have squandered in recent years.
Pick any national metric of healthiness -- life expectancy, infant mortality, birth weight, chronic diseases incidence -- and America's comparative performance is in the cellar. How can this be?
Why does Congress hand out money to name buildings, bridges -- everything under the sun -- after its own living members? Until the 1960s, people had to die before they were memorialized in granite.
McCain left Sunday's Yankees game in the middle of the sixth with the score tied. It didn't really matter to him if he saw the end of the game, since his most cherished sports memories are all imaginary, anyway.
It's no surprise this latest NIE has fallen down the administration's memory hole, but what excuse do those in the media have for sipping the amnesia juice?
It isn't just the American people who want us to leave Iraq. Now it's the U.S.-backed Prime Minister of Iraq. That leaves Bush, McCain and the neo cons as the only people still committed to this war.
Our seditious crimes, as "Lucy" reported, involved planning to set up a table at the local farmer's market and writing a petition. We can only assume that this surveillance was to garner Homeland Security grant money.
Let's call these missions what they are: photo ops and ways of gathering impressions, opinions, and assumptions from various sources on the ground. Let's leave the fact-finding to Google.
McCain aides said that the senator's journey to the Internet will span five days and will take him to such far-flung sites as Amazon.com, eBay and Facebook.
We feel its time to go public with a petition we've put together which expresses our concerns for the support political leaders, such as Lieberman, are giving to Hagee's poisonous ideology.
Something sinister is afoot in the steep decline of oil prices: Our sense of outrage at the oil industry risks being mollified; just when we become serious about alternative fuels, suddenly, magically, the price of oil retreats.
Two fuses were lit this past week that could eventually explode later in John McCain's campaign -- a housing-banking crisis and the senator's penchant for falsehoods that gives new meaning to Bush III.
Am I the only one upset that when you buy a song on iTunes you don't get any of the info you used to get in a CD booklet, like the names of the producer and the session players? And I miss reading the lyrics as I hear a song for the first time.
