A story just moved in the Tulsa World that has the Senator saying some odd things about Medicare and then some kinda unfortunate things about President Obama.

First, back to the future with Chicken Care … Read More

Global population has officially passed the one billion mark. Of cars, that is.

I’m really just flagging what David noted in the post below. But it’s worth two posts or more. Wall Street is telling us (now noting Morgan Stanley’s explanation of its growth outlook downgrade) that two key factors in the increasingly gloomy outlook for the economy are Washington’s high-wire antics (i.e., Republican hostage taking on the budget) and the prospect of fiscal tightening in the USA. Read More

Secretary of Education Arne Duncan on the Texas education system: “I feel very, very badly for the children there.”

You can’t say it often enough: As the economy verges on sliding into another recession, policymakers are making things worse. It’s excruciating to watch.