Crisis of 2008

During times of real war, when the nation is truly at risk, citizens become expert in both the weapons of...

Once you understand that modern Republicanism goes back almost 70 years, you start to see what is happening now in...

Republicans are continuing to do things the Nixon way. That's why they seem stupid. The mistake made by otherwise-smart people...

To Republicans, from the hoariest milblogger to the highest-ranking candidate, compromise is akin to surrender. To them politics is war,...

Most analysts who watched President Obama today derided the Lincoln comparison, claiming we face nothing so large as what he...

At some point the disconnect becomes too much. At some point business and Wall Street leaves the Republican reservation and...

We have been living in a deflationary spiral for decades, thanks to Moore's Law. We just didn't know it. The...

Obama is falling behind the national mood and the reason is Rahm Emanuel. Emanuel's background was in Clinton's compromises, which...

The vulnerability of the right is not political. That threat lies in the business model. The business models of every...

Once the new bank was operating you could let the existing banks fail. Instead of buying their worst assets you...