Standard and Poor’s vindicates Tea Party with downgrade of U.S. Debt.
While the Tea Party gets slated as a bunch of extremists, the truth is they're a legitimate mass movement. And they've just been proved right.
- 6 August 2011
Econogeddon
Stock markets are essentially where people bet on the future of the economy. This week investors have reached the conclusion, in large numbers, that the economic future is bleak and they are cashing in their chips.
- 5 August 2011
Why dysfunction is crucial to the workings of the American republic
While some democrats in congress have urged Obama to evoke the 14th Amendment, it is clear that checks and balances retain the constitution's position as the only winner in the debt ceiling debate.
- 1 August 2011
Goodbye to NASA’s Apollo Era
The new generation of youth in the United States will not miss the government space program. The age of Apollo is over.
- 21 July 2011
Budget ceiling talks are reflecting badly on Republicans
Republicans must acknowledge that the budget talks are crucial to their electoral chance in 2012. It's time to address these concerns.
- 16 July 2011
Rupert Murdoch doesn't have a monopoly, now quit whining!
The left can't compete with right-wing media. For punters, nor for cash - so they nationalise and subsidise their biased institutions.
- 15 July 2011
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