The poets might object, but economic techniques are increasingly being used to place a dollar value on trees. The blog Environmental Economics has an interesting post on placing a dollar…
Right now the Congressional Democrtas are on the right side of the Iraq war issue. As a TPM commenter notes, we'll soon see what our party is made of. TPMcafe…
Does anyone know if this Chris Gore guy is a real person? I tried that phone number and got nowhere. I tried email and got this email directing me back…
If you are a user of a crackberry, you were non-plussed this morning. Last night Research in Motion (the blackberry people) had a serious meltdown of their systems. I wonder…
So I read this article and think to myself do we as Delawareans really need to be wasting $25,000,000 federal tax dollars on sand when apparently the beaches naturally come…
There are persistent rumors coming out to the "pro-life" community that Christine O'Donnell is going to primary Michael Castle. I have been unable to get a direct comment out of…
The Economist has an article about how North Dakota is trying to woo corporations away from Delaware with their new shareholder-friendly incorporation laws. There are some interesting stats in the…
I'm somewhat stunned and numb about the shootings in Virginia. And yet piercing the haze is the complete crap being peddled by wingnuts that more guns are the answer to…
The NYT has a great little article about the spending patterns of the top candidates (and McCain) and what it tells us about them. My favorite is about how Romney's…
Matt Stoller at MYDD put up a post about being proud to pay his taxes and wingnuts went bonkers... First actually a bunch of us chimed in with similar feelings…
Presiden Bush yesterday was at it again trying to urge Democrats to pass a $100,000,000,000.00 spending bill. One of the lessons of September the 11th is what happens overseas matters…