by | Jan 6, 2012 | Blog, The Sequester
Originally published at Capital Gains and Games. There are five reasons why it was virtually inevitable the White House would make military spending an issue this year. The Pentagon Has Become Increasingly Unpopular. After foreign aid and NASA, military spending is...
by Terrance Heath | Jan 6, 2012 | Blog
(Read parts one and two.) Whoever said it was right when he or she called the current economic downturn a "financial 9/11." Though he may not have meant it in quite this way, it' still an apt comparison. Because, just as 9/11 was something that didn't "just happen" to...
by Terrance Heath | Jan 6, 2012 | Blog
Read part one. Being married to a psychiatrist, there just happened to be a copy of the DSM IV in the house. I grabbed it and, on a hunch, turned to the section on personality disorders, where antisocial personality disorder caught my eye first. Definition Antisocial...
by Terrance Heath | Jan 6, 2012 | Blog
In my daily perusal of economic news, I have found myself more than once staring my computer monitor in open-mouthed wonder, occasionally exclaiming, "You've got to be kidding me," or "What's wrong with these people?",or something like that. To do what they've been...
by Jeff Bryant | Jan 6, 2012 | Blog, Education
I remember the day that the poor kids showed up at our school. It was in 1964. Classes had already started, and I was in second grade, surrounded by my familiar friends from my mostly white, mostly well-to-do, suburban neighborhood in North Dallas. Their bus showed up...
by Terrance Heath | Jan 5, 2012 | Blog, Economy, Minimum Wage
Bachmann is gone. Perry was out, then back in, and is filing briefs in Virginia. Having tumbled from front-runner to fourth place, Newt stormed out of Iowa, heading for New Hampshire to prepare for the next round. After "winning" the Iowa caucuses, Mitt Romney is now...
