Fitch downgrades New Jersey’s credit rating.

Perhaps we should just raffle the presidency off to the governor with the highest credit rating. Or maybe just personal credit score.

Not sure what to make of this but apparently Christine O’Donnell walked off the set of her interview with Piers Morgan after he probed her on the topics of witchcraft and gay marriage.

Staring down a repeal referendum on par with the recall movement in Wisconsin, Gov. Kasich (R-OH) asks state unions for a compromise on collective bargaining in exchange for calling off the referendum. Big story.

Reminds of this point.

Well we’ve now seen the much-ballyhooed Christine O’Donnell Piers Morgan walk-off. And it actually manages to be even better than advertised. Watch.

Hard to believe Obama still out-polls the GOP presidential field given these atrocious polling numbers on his economic performance — until you actually look at the GOP field.

We’re 15 months out from the 2012 general election, and there’s already enough bad political coverage for a Jon Stewart rant. Watch.

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.

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

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

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