…tightening of reactor safeguards following the Fukushima accident and of plotting a "coup" against Jaczko. Conspiracy and coup mongering are serious accusations. If Markey were to be believed, four wild-eyed individuals—a nuclear engineer and adviser to former Senator John Warner, a MIT…
…Goose), and then spent the entire night sweet-talking the sister of a rising tech star. Not as a Sex Trophy. For business. I’m serious. Oddly enough, despite his TriBeCa apartment and the fact that he paid for all my drinks on his company card whenever we went out (and never hit on me!…
…out of my college. He took five years to graduate from some place in the South. Last I heard, he was working for one of those door-to-door companies selling knives or foreclosed houses or something. And yet here I am, jobless. Life is funny that way.
…nomination. You can read the full transcript of the interview here . EOH: Will Newt Gingrich be the GOP nominee? DF: My guess is no. Gingrich has a lot that appeals to Republican primary voters. They like that he helped take back the House of Representatives in 1994 and…
…that operate on a cash-only/cash mostly basis--parking lots, taxi cabs, newsstands--sell things that cost well less than $100, nearly all $100 bills get "broken" into smaller denominations very quickly. This leaves two major reasons why an ordinary American outside of a casino would have a…
…payroll tax holiday, and prevent the cuts for doctors and hospitals under Medicare: and it has begun to change the dynamic of the issue. Key to the Jiu jitsu is the Keystone XL Pipeline. That project promises not only to make the United States less dependent on imported oil from hostile…
…the Court. Her absence means if there is a 4-4 split, the Ninth Circuit’s decision would be affirmed but without a precedent which would bind other courts. However, in June the Court voted 5-4 to uphold another Arizona law requiring employers to use the federal government’s E-Verify…
…why I say that. At Christmas-time, I was in Wal-Mart to buy some toys for my grandkids. As I waited in the check-out line, I took a good look around the store. I thought to myself of the impact Sam Walton had on his company. Sam Walton was all about good value on everything the customer might…
…With the result that we're backed into a strategic position that amounts to this: "Republicans want to help the middle class, but the only policy tool allowed is tax cuts - with the tax cut that weighs heaviest on middle-class people, the payroll tax, off limits." No wonder then that the…
Newt Gingrich believes in much more democracy than the founding fathers. They believed the U.S. House should consist of representatives elected by white male property owners. Voting at the time was a public act. On election day the voters would show up at a public place, usually a…
