2012 Elections
Thursday, November 24th, 2011

Gary Johnson, two-term governor of New Mexico, can’t make it in to any more debates. The polling thresholds manage to catch Huntsman, and exclude him, in no small part because a lot of polls don’t ask about him.
Taxes
Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, as Freud supposedly said, but when is a cigarette a cigarette?
Finance
Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011

The amount of customer money missing from the collapsed trading firm MF Global may be more than $1.2 billion — double previous estimates — the trustee dismantling the firm’s brokerage unit said on Monday.
Breaking News, Headlines, Liberty
Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011

GOP candidates Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul debate the merits of extending the Patriot Act to secure our country.
Technology
Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011

A fresh tranche of private emails exchanged between leading climate scientists throughout the last decade was released online on Tuesday. The unauthorised publication is an apparent attempt to repeat the impact of a similar release of emails on the eve of the Copenhagen climate summit in late 2009.
Health
Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011

It sounds like something out of a bizarre science fiction comic book, but scientists have weaponized the H5N1 bird flu virus, and are actually considering releasing the research.
2012 Elections
Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011

Washington (CNN) — A Republican presidential debate on Tuesday focused on national security issues exposed deep fault lines within the GOP over how to grapple with the nation’s challenges overseas.
Activism
Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011

Tea Party organizations that championed the congressional upset victories of Michele Bachmann in Minnesota, Scott Brown in Massachusetts and Marco Rubio in Florida now have their eyes – and their pocketbooks – aimed at Texas.
Taxes
Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011

President Obama, after watching the deficit Super Committee collapse under the weight of partisan discord, on Tuesday urged Congress to prevent that failure from resulting in a payroll tax increase at the end of the year.
Finance
Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011

The implosion of the congressional supercommittee is likely to delay any major deficit-reduction agreement until after the next presidential election and may pose an immediate threat to the struggling U.S. economy.