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Friday, May 24, 2013 - 12:50pm
What first caught my eye was the op-ed article in The Wall Street Journal. Published in late February, it was written by Andrew N. Liveris, the chairman and chief executive of the Dow Chemical Co. Liveris, an Australian, has become quite the...
Friday, May 24, 2013 - 12:40pm
"I always use this chart of childhood death," Bill Gates says. "In 1960, 25 percent of kids died before the age of 5. And now we're down below 6 percent of kids dying before the age of 5."
We're sitting in a bare...
Friday, May 24, 2013 - 12:30pm
Before Congress is finished with the Internal Revenue Service, there's a serious danger some of us are going to wind up feeling sorry for the auditors.
And, honestly, that is not the way we were planning on spending the spring. Especially...
Friday, May 24, 2013 - 12:20pm
Why is it so difficult for people to realize that education isn't just to prepare a student to make more money but to serve the society's needs? Every legislator went to school at one time; therefore each feels that he or she knows just...
Friday, May 24, 2013 - 12:10pm
Whether one thinks the demiscandals being howled about in Washington should or should not resonate more widely, they don't.
According to a Gallup report released Thursday, "The amount of attention Americans are paying to the I.R.S. and...
Thursday, May 23, 2013 - 4:40pm
Logic, thy name is not Ted Cruz. The very junior senator from Texas is a well-credentialed windbag, with degrees from Princeton and Harvard Law, and a stint clerking at the Supreme Court. After a few months in Congress promoting Ted Cruz, smartest...
Thursday, May 23, 2013 - 4:30pm
Four Americans died in Benghazi, Libya: people with unrealized hopes, unfinished plans, relatives who loved them and friends who will miss them.
But let's focus on what really matters about the attack and its aftermath. Did Hillary Clinton...
Thursday, May 23, 2013 - 4:30pm
Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., says the “coverup” surrounding the tragic incidents in Benghazi is “bigger than Watergate, bigger than Iran-Contra, bigger than the Pentagon Papers.”
It’s interesting that Inhofe doesn...
Thursday, May 23, 2013 - 4:20pm
No job now, provides the pay,
To let me find, a place to stay.
Many folks with big incomes are responding to the tensions of America’s growing economic inequality by moving into gated communities. This isn’t new, just...
Thursday, May 23, 2013 - 4:20pm
Arriving in Yemen last week, I had an experience I'd never had before. I drove from the airport into Sanaa, the capital, on the main thoroughfare, through a raging torrent of water. I was staying in the old city, a United Nations World...
Thursday, May 23, 2013 - 4:10pm
It's hard to spend a couple of days in Atlantic City and feel anything but alarmed by the explosion of casino gambling in Maryland.
It wasn't just the early morning bra left behind in the elevator that made me cringe. Or the completely...
Thursday, May 23, 2013 - 4:10pm
Max Baucus' reputation as one of the most ethically challenged members of the U.S. Senate is well earned. The Montana Democrat's decision to retire in 2014 can't help but improve the chamber's sorry record of self-...
Thursday, May 23, 2013 - 4:00pm
Elizabeth Warren does great email. One payoff of my pittance of a contribution to her grass-roots funded campaign -- I regret not contributing more -- is that I am regularly alerted by the new Massachusetts senator to the favoritism of our...
Thursday, May 23, 2013 - 3:50pm
I don't have a dog in the Senate fight in Massachusetts between 18-term Rep. Ed Markey, D, and Republican Gabriel Gomez, a former Navy SEAL. But if energy policy matters to voters up there, they should hold Markey accountable for not adapting...
Thursday, May 23, 2013 - 3:40pm
The 79-year-old corporate gadfly Robert Monks, the former top federal regulator over America’s pension system, earlier this year opined that Corporate America operates “for the personal enrichment and glorification of its manager-kings...
