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What's Up With Cybersecurity and Chinese Telecoms?

Two items in the news: a congressional committee warns that Chinese telecom companies might be spying on us, and the Secretary of Defense warns about "cybersecurity." One report even says that Chinese-made equipment used in businesses here sends data to China at...

The One Percent's Titanic Self-Delusion

Last summer I compared the GOP to a mutinous first-mate on the Titanic, steering  the economy into an iceberg in hopes of taking over when the captain goes with the ship, while forgetting that they're "in the same boat." If our economy was the RMS Titanic, Republicans...

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