Political Desk

The NY Times actually published a semi-reasonable article on the political battles shaping for the 2014 election:   Fiscal C...

I find it amusing for anybody to suggest that a majority of Democrats and a majority of Republicans would find common ground on ...

Wow, I finally succeeded in getting a New York state Obamacare account and application set up so that I am finally able to see plans a...

Okay, this is it... the proverbial "Eleventh Hour" is here. Most sane observers know and expect that a deal will get done. A...

Despite all of the political theater and gnashing of teeth and wringing of hands, the end game for the current federal budget crisis i...

I should have made this post months ago, like back in the spring, but better late than never. Nothing has really changed since then as...

Nobody really knows exactly what the impact on the U.S. economy will be when the U.S. government hits the so-called "Fiscal Cliff...

There is no question that Greece is a real mess, bordering on being a "failed state", but my hunch is that things will actua...

Although there is rampant disappointment with our two-party political system in almost all directions, I don't concur that the two...

Interesting. Today is the big May 1 "May Day" General Strike day for the Occupy movement and I see that I can't access t...

I am actually looking forward to the big May 1 General Strike that is being promoted by the Occupy movement. Not because I support the...

For two days in a row (or has it been three?), the top news stories in Google News have been about the White House Correspondents'...

I keep hearing proponents of political finance reform complaining that the supreme court has ruled that "money is speech", w...

The Occupy Wall Street crowd has been calling for a May 1 "May Day General Strike", hoping it would really kick start (resta...

Despite some polls that suggest that Romney is giving Obama a run for his money, Romney has essentially zero chance of beating Obama in N...

Since this seems to be all the rage (figuratively and literally!), I'll disclose that my own effective tax rate is 23.3%, for 2011. B...

The media has done a very poor job of accurately reporting the effective tax rate of the secretaries of both Obama and Buffett. The lates...

It was back in January that Warren Buffett claimed that his secretary was paying a higher tax rate than his secretary. His rate is clai...

Conservatives and liberals each like to say that the other is "destroying America." I think that is a little too simplistic and...

It seems quite clear to me (and Intrade.com backs it up with a 60.8% probability), that Obama will win in November. But, he is unlikely ...

OMG indeed! The members of the Occupy Wall Street movement have discovered that if they obey the rules, the cops leave them alone! What a...

Hmmm... The White House is now claiming that the president's secretary had a HIGHER effective tax rate than the president, but that d...

I had actually reviewed Obama's 2010 tax return recently, so I quickly latched onto his 2011 return when it came out today. Some...

I wasn't terribly surprised that the prosecutor decided to prosecute George Zimmerman for shooting Trayvon Martin, but the second-deg...

The Occupy Wall Street movement here in America (NYC in particular) was an offshoot of the previous anti-globalization movement(s) as wel...

I used to love watching Mike Wallace on Biography when I was a kid. And he definitely raised the bar with his many early years with 60 Mi...

Here's an interesting piece by security consultant Ian Oxnevad entitled " The Occupy Movement: Rising Anarchy " on the ris...

Usually I cringe at the silliness of April Fool's Day, but I see that it is a perfect and natural fit for the Occupy Movement, where ...

The Occupy Wall Street crowd is making a big deal about their call for a General Strike on May 1st, but as far as I can see, they are unl...

The unrest in Syria certainly gets a lot of media attention, but what is it really all about? I would like to be able to take a "pos...

President Obama has renewed his call for the so-called Buffett Rule, under which a person earning more than $1 million in income would ha...

Wow, are Supreme Court justices really allowed to lie through their teeth about the law with impunity? Is nothing sacred?   According t...

A number of media reports strongly suggested or implied that the individual mandate of the health care law would likely be overturned bas...

There is no question that investing these days is very tricky business. In fact, any dealing with Wall Street is quite treacherous these ...

At least some members of the Occupy [Wall Street] movement seem to believe as a matter of principle that civil disobedience is constituti...

There has certainly been a lot of activist clamor about the latest National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 (NDAA), sugges...