Across the U.S., mortgages are being foreclosed. Banks are writing off bad loans. One investment bank has already failed, with who knows how many more to come. So is it a recession yet?
Oddly, the news from the overall American economy remains surprisingly better than expected.
On Friday, the U.S. government released a spate of important economic more
Five years later, the debate over the Iraq war rages as hot as when it began. We have never ceased looking over our shoulders. We have attempted to fight our way forward with our eyes fixed backward.
Mired in these old arguments, it becomes impossible to see anything new.
Just last week for example, the more
As the media revel in all the lurid details of the Eliot Spitzer scandal, ask yourself this question: How is it that we know any of this stuff?
The short answer: U.S. federal prosecutors leaked it. The court documents referred only to a mysterious “Client Number Nine” — reflecting the usual rule that individuals who more
Is it the responsibility of the government of Canada to assist Democratic presidential candidates in telling lies?
Apparently the answer is “yes” — at least according to the opposition parties in Ottawa.
The opposition parties are slamming the Harper government for inadvertently leaking a memo that revealed Barack Obama’s anti-NAFTA posture to be a fake. more
Of all the writings of Bill Buckley, none were finer than his short obituaries. He wrote nearly 500 of them — for world rulers, political opponents and intimate friends; and, in many cases, for people who combined all three roles into one. Here, for example, is an extract from his obituary for William Sloane Coffin, more
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