Gambler Loses $127 million in Vegas
Beautiful loser Where you gonna fall? When you realize You just can't have it all -Bob Seger In casino circles, the name they use to refer to p...
Beautiful loser Where you gonna fall? When you realize You just can't have it all -Bob Seger In casino circles, the name they use to refer to p...
Those of us who have benefited so greatly from our country's investment in our lives should be asked to give a portion of our wealth back to invest in opportunities for the future.
How delightful it is to learn, on the anniversary of the Boston Tea Party, that the Republican Party would lose serious ground in an election held tod...
Unless we change the system, it will collapse under its own unsustainability -- or the victims of that system will revolt and smash it. That's why Philippe Diaz made The End of Poverty?.
I have not heard an intelligent, free-thinking statement from anyone in Congress for so long I am now convinced it is not possible in the current environment. And that is the real problem.
While driving on the New York State Thruway last week, I passed a car with a bumper sticker that said, "I Vote Pro-Life." Always on the lookout for s...
It would appear that "we the people" of California would rather take money out of the pockets of the most important professionals in our society than pay a little more in taxes.
The City Council should not approve the Kingsbridge Armory project unless the developer guarantees that future retail workers will be paid a living wage.
This article originally appeared on my site Credit Writedowns In the past few weeks I have been alarmed about the growing debate about deficits and t...
A - I´ll always want you B - Because my heart is true C - Come, come, come closer And I´ll tell you of the ABC´s -Fran...
The Happy Act is going viral. Be very afraid. This bill, introduced last August by Representative Thaddeus McCotter (R-MI), would allow people to dedu...
In a sovereign debt crisis, the central government's debt become so high that everyone knows they cannot possibly tax the population enough to cover their expenses and service it.
Switzerland and California may be 6,000 miles apart, but they suffer from the same political malady. The land of the cuckoo clock and the Golden State...
We must stop subsidizing speculators with cheap funding and tax breaks. We have to hold people accountable for malfeasance, break up large financial institutions, and allow them to fail.
In a political system like ours dominated by big money and the lobbyists that money hires, democracy requires eternal vigilance, even in years when Democrats control of Congress and the White House.
HuffPost Editor Roy Sekoff appeared on The Joy Behar Show Wednesday night to talk about religion in politics and the controversy surrounding Sarah Pal...
Democrats managed to pass and then expand under Bush a commonsense progressive tax measure, and here we are watching Democrats aiming to weaken that tax measure.
We cannot give away tax dollars for tax credits for large corporations without proof that they work.
The Obama Administration is planning to start cutting the deficit soon. Even merely to discuss tax raises, expenditure cuts, and the increases in interest rates that are entailed will slow the recovery.
Out of all of the election results from yesterday, the anti-tax ballot measures in Maine and Washington (known as TABOR) provide a better political tea leaf into voter attitudes going into the 2010 election cycle than anything else.
A series of investigations could spell the beginning of the end for the billion dollar, taxpayer funded troubled teen industry.