I awoke this morning to news reports that Julian Assange had been arrested. This was not “news,” of course, as I had been expecting that it would come down to this. The question, at least for me, is what happens next. Whatever your opinion of the WikiLeaks drama—whether you buy into the nationalistic claim that [...]
Today, GM—one of the Big Three automakers that recently was given $13.5 billion dollars from taxpaying, working Americans—returned the favor by announcing today that it will be cutting 2,000 jobs from its workforce. Those workers will then become the rest of America’s problem as they apply for and receive unemployment checks funded through tax dollars, [...]
Last night, like millions of others, I watched the carefully-scripted speech from George Bush as he did little more than repeat information that the rest of us have already been hearing. I may not be a financial expert, but I do know that I can think and reason through things. Because of that, I’d like [...]
