Deep Thought

One year ago I wrote a post entitled, seven years of the Bush economy . Well, today it's time to update and close the book on it. Of cou...

Most Presidents, ten days before the end of their administration, would be busy packing, signing letters of reference for their staff, solic...

This week the national debt clock in New York exceeded the number of digits it was designed for (picture.) There is now a '1' readin...

What really stuck out to me from last night's debate is that in the face of the global economic crisis, Senator McCain couldn't sugg...

I'd like to take you back for a moment, to a time when American policy makers faced an enormous decision. The time was during the spring...

For a change, it looks like George W. Bush did the right thing. Not that he had a lot of choice. We came remarkably close earlier this week ...

Today we found out that unemployment in August shot up to 6.1%. This is up more than a full percentage point since April, representing liter...

President Bush went to his last G-8 summit this week, and spent the week with other leaders of developed countries discussing a variety of t...

In 2005, President Bush introduced a plan to borrow $2 trillion to begin privatizing Social Security. He told us that if Social Security was...

President Bush, after finally acknowleging the fact of global warming in the face of overwhelming scientific evidence in favor of it, is off...

During the recent discussion on Iraq and Afghanistan, we are being confronted again with a hard, cold reality-- that we simply do not have e...

Well we now know what President Bush's definition of 'romantic' is. serving in the Afghan war . I must say, I'm a little env...

The media likes to harp on John McCain as some kind of a 'moderate' (not a conservative). And recently he has been only reluctantly ...

Yesterday marked seven years since George W. Bush took office. And one year from today someone else will take over and inherit a far differe...

It is exceedingly rare that I agree with George W. Bush, and even more so that I agree with him or say he is right about anything pertaining...

Today the Supreme Court of Pakistan threw out five of the six complaints that had been lodged against the election last month of General Per...

One of the hallmarks of George W. Bush has been his stubborn refusal to change course no matter what, even when he is clearly way off track....

Today George Bush tried to shift the focus away from his botched job in Iraq and focused on the demonstrations led by Buddhist monks in Myan...

Today President Bush said once again that we have to 'win' in Iraq. Leaving aside the fact that we've grown tired of this stale ...

These days, it seems that one can't go very far in the liberal blogsphere without running into someone advocating impeachment, of both B...