Tony Blair summoned back to Chilcot inquiry into Iraq war guardian.co.uk by Richard Norton-Taylor 26 October 2010 Tony Blair is to be summoned back to the official inquiry into the Iraq invasion in light of damaging and conflicting evidence revealed since he appeared as a witness in January. Members of the Chilcot inquiry are believed […]
I don’t usually clip a whole article, but this one needs to be on every telephone pole because it is the best, most honest version of the truth yet: Attack on the Middle Class!! Mother Jones By James K. Galbraith November/December 2010 Issue THE REMARKABLE thing about the American middle class is that we still […]
The 2008 Presidential Campaign was a referendum on the Bush years, and in spite of the fact that the country is still in a Conservative frame of mind, the outcome was clear. But then there was something else – the financial crisis. It appeared on the doorstep of most Americans in September 2008, though its […]
So I watched some television tonight. The ads are really unbelievable! Did you know Roy Barnes left Georgia as "scorched earth" last time he was governor. But this brochure about our good friend Joe Martin running for State School Superintendent takes the cake: Joe served on the Atlanta School Board for years and is most […]
The Case Shiller Index for August was published today People were disappointed, and the DOW dipped. That makes no sense at all to me. The often published graph above [case-shiller 20 city] suggests that the housing bubble being over, home values should return to where they were before it started. Below is the last 33 […]
Considering the foreclosure mess and everything else, the third straight month of increase in the sale of existing homes is actually reasonable news. But the Inventory of existing homes remains high. Sales jump 10 percent in Sept. for existing homes… Washington Post By Dina ElBoghdady October 25, 2010 Sales of previously occupied homes are bouncing […]
Voters are in the dark on campaign spending Washington Post By E.J. Dionne Jr. October 25, 2010 Imagine an election in a Third World nation where a small number of millionaires and billionaires spent massive sums to push the outcome in their preferred direction. Wouldn’t many people here condescendingly tut-tut over such a country’s "poorly […]
Watching Masterpiece Mystery Theater tonight [a modernized Sherlock Holmes], I was thinking that that part of the charm of those stories [or any decent mystery stories] is the "figuring out" that the reader joins in while reading – but the really good ones can’t quite be figured out, because we readers aren’t really bad guys […]