As our lawmakers try to prevent us from falling off the “fiscal cliff” when the Bush tax cuts expire with the new year and mandatory federal reductions click in, Matt Miller argues that BOTH Republicans AND Democrats are laboring under two wrong ideas when it
Angus T. Jones, the teenager who is the “half man” on the popular sit-com “Two and a Half Men,” has had a conversion experience and is now telling people to stop watching his show, which has been paying him $8 million a year: Less than
On New Year’s Day, the Bush-era tax cuts will expire and mandatory cuts in government spending will go into effect, a double-whammy to the economy that is being called “the fiscal cliff.” Republicans do not want the tax increases and Democrats do not want the
John Hearn recalls shopping as a child in a family that didn’t have all that much money. He reflects on what shopping has become today and reminds us of the true meaning of shopping: We shopped rarely and with forethought and together. Shopping was a
Republican lawmakers are bailing on the formal pledge they made not to vote for a tax increase. Grover Norquist’s anti-tax pledge has been a sacred and unchallenged keystone of the Republican platform for more than two decades, playing a central role in almost every budget
Two years ago, Chinese author Liu Xiaobo won the Nobel Prize for Literature, but he was not allowed to leave the country to receive it and is currently in jail for opposing the Communist government. This year another Chinese author won the prize, Mo Yan,
For the first time, the citizens of Puerto Ric0 voted to become the 51st state in the United States of America. This can’t happen without Congressional action, but a referendum in the American territory went for statehood after Puerto Ricans voted it down in 1967,
The Republican party and “conservatives” in general are far from monolithic. There are different kinds of Republicans and different kinds of conservatives (social conservatives, fiscal conservatives, evangelicals, libertarians, neo-cons, paleo-cons, crunchy-cons, etc., etc.). The main division in the Grand Old Party is between Republicans motivated
What with the locavore movement, the organic food craze, survivalism, and the need to pinch pennies, lots of people have started raising chickens. Even in big cities and suburbia. Here in the D.C. area, counties and municipalities have revised local ordinances to allow chicken coops
Now that Obamacare has passed the hurdles of the Supreme Court and Obama’s re-election, there is a mad scramble to make the necessary preparations before the health care program goes into effect in 2014. The government is adding more requirements of what health insurance companies
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