Keep Your Eye on Iraq

If you haven’t been paying attention, you should be. Iraq is falling to a group commonly referred to as ISIS or ISIL. That’s an acronym for Islamic State in Iraq and/or Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant. So far, two major cities have fallen and ISIS is on the march towards Baghdad. They are […]

Virginia: Eric Canter, House Majority Leader lost to a Tea Party Professor of Economics

The primary was just called on the news – Eric Canter, Republican House Majority Leader just lost to Dave Brat, an economics professor at a small college! This is a big deal… Now, for some fun thoughts: 1. And the dem candidate is also a professor at the same small college! Ooooohhh, think of the […]

Grand Bargain or Death by Detail?

We are hearing more and more of a Grand Bargain coming out of Washington, D.C. whether of an economic budget, immigration, gun control or the current cause of the day. It makes me twitchy. What about you? In 2009, a Democratic Congress passed the wonder of our time, Obamacare or, wait for it, its proper […]