Ding! Going down

The National Debt Clock, that electronic billboard in New York that counts up the debt, is being removed to make way for a new building. You didn’t really want to know what the debt is, anyway, did you? But  [more...]

We have two competing world views in American politics. The first says that government cannot help people. That government must be as small as possible, and exists only to provide security from external enemies. The  [more...]

As if to underscore Mitt Romney’s indifference to the 47 percent, his Republican Party colleagues in the US Senate used a procedural vote Wednesday to block a $1 billion bipartisan bill that would have given tens  [more...]