by Bruce Webb The Treasury Department maintains a handy web application called Debt to the Penny. As the name suggests it will give you total Public Debt to the penny for specific dates in the past or for a range of dates. It is this total Public Debt figure that is generally cited in news coverage,...

Greg Mankiw points out that while Barack Obama’s budget promises to increase the national debt by more than $9 trillion over the next ten years, even that figure relies on rosy growth projections that overstate tax revenues. I’ll refer you to Mankiw for the specific numbers. On the avera...

To the displeasure of many on both sides of aisle, President Obama on today is hosting the so-called Fiscal Responsibility Summit at the White House. While some Democrats question the timing of Obama's expenditure of political capital on Social Security, Medicare and other entitlement reform, obstru...

As a person without any debts, and four bank accounts coloured black, I awoke yesterday morning to find the country’s National Debt at £2 trillion ($3tr) and more. That represents more than £60,000 ($86,000) and rising per household. It dwarfs Britain’s annual national income of £1.4 ...

Good grief, let’s have a little fearless candor. He was boring as hell, loved the sound of his own voice, and gave very few useful specifics.  He made George W. Bush look like a witty man of the people.  And he certainly wasn’t worth pre-empting House. Yay, our first law professor Pres...

4 tons of gold coins worth 1 billion dollar???!!! Holy. Shit. What an impressive story. Obama should consider contracting with these treasure hunters to locate long lost shipwrecks thought to be in U.S. territorial waters. Of course, let's maintain a sense of Obama administration tax cheat depressio...

Nation in Debt? Time For A Little Bit Of Luck The national debt is approaching 11 trillion dollars, and with all the money Congress is giving out during this economic crisis to just about any rich guy who asks for it, that figure is bound to skyrocket. With our government’s finances in worse shape...

FROZEN LANDSCAPE - CEMETERY - TATTERED AMERICAN FLAG an Evil Digital Film produced by Force Majeure Film Studios (a Holy owned subsidiary of Black Cat Bone Global Media Empire) written, directed and edited by The Right Reverend James W. Bailey --- Filmed on location at a cemetery located just outsid...

A nation built with African slaves inaugurates an African-American President. A nation driven by culture wars born out of the Vietnam era moves into hope for more pragmatic, if still partisan, politics. A nation fallen into the darkness of torture, of "collateral damage" of hundreds of thousands of ...

When I was a kid back at Millville Grade School, my old buddy Stinky Wilmont used to tell stories about his Uncle Pug. It seems he had a fondness for hard liquor, and according to Stinky, Uncle Pug knew his limit when he began to imbibe. The problem was he always passed out before he got to it. We s...