September 2010 Archives

I promise this isn't about sports, but sports was the impetus for this diatribe. I was discussing the Roger Clemens situation with other people online when the discussion disintegrated into a political discussion about the merits of Congress. I won't bore you with the facts of the case, so I'll boil it down to its simplest ingredients. Roger Clemens allegedly lied to Congress, so Congress has charged him with perjury. He was formally indicted and...

But we can't raise their taxes, they're the job creators: "The Institute for Policy Studies  released its annual report on executive compensation today... [T]he report found that "CEOs of the 50 firms that have laid off the most workers since the onset of the economic crisis took home nearly $12 million on average in 2009." Those CEOs' combined compensation totaled $598 million, while at the same time, their companies eliminated 531,363 jobs despite reporting a...

If President Obama's speech last night was a movie I'd give it 2 ½ stars, Not a bomb, but not an Oscar winner either.  It was sort of significant, but not exactly an "historic moment," in my opinion. More like a baby step. An historic moment will be when the last American soldier leaves Iraq. And while it may be called "an end to our combat mission in Iraq" the facts are we still have...