S.Korea to withdraw from Iraq
South Korea will withdraw all of its troops from Iraq by December. Don’t they know that if they don’t fight the terrorists in Iraq then the Koreans will have to fight the terrorists at home?
SEC bans short-selling of financial company stocks
The SEC is looking for someone to blame and the scapegoat of the minute is the investor. When prices go up, who gets the credit? When prices go down, who gets the blame?
Polluted water kills 2 million each year
We allow companies to pollute the water and it kills 2 million people each year. We then pay 400 billion dollars to companies to clean up the water. Why not just stop the pollution?
How to fix the financial crisis
Why are we surprised that we have a crisis when we keep giving money to the system that produces the crisis?
How to fix the financial crisis
The financial markets are in crisis. Banks, especially investment banks, are failing. The federal government is proposing to buy all of the bad decisions from the financial sector at a cost of “hundreds of billions of dollars” to you. Banks and governments have faced this same problem in the past, and they have responded with … Read more
Sixth day of oil-related attacks in Nigeria
Militants claim to have destroyed another Shell pipeline. Is it a crisis yet?
A genetic basis for politics?
A new study suggests that innate fear responses strongly contribute to your political philosophy.
McCain doubts that Spain is an ally
In an interview with a Spanish-speaking radio station, McCain either didn’t know who the Prime Minister of Spain is, or thinks that Spain, the NATO ally, has not been supporting American enough.
Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel says Palin is not qualified
Sen. Hagel said that when Republicans insist that Palin is qualified that it is “insulting to the American people.”
American Psychological Association bans participation in illegal interrogations
The APA approved a resolution that prevents its members from working for interrogators holding prisoners in violation of international law.