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That's a quote concerning justice and strength from the dim past of 350 years ago--another proof that not much changes across the pages of history--by philosopher-mathematician Blaise Pascal, dead since 1662. Barbara Ehrenreich writes in the Huffington Post; "The Democrats are feeling empowered...

The Washington Post headline is Stocks Surge as Fed Offers A Boost and it’s written by T. M. Tse and Neil Irwin, who are staff writers and may be forgiven their sins. Certainly they are not Steven Pearstein (probably one of the finest business-writers extant today) even though he too is beginning ...

In about a year it will be the 90th anniversary of the establishment of the Weimar Republic, the nickname for post-WWI Germany and a moniker forever connected with the hyper-inflationary economy of Germany. That circumstance lead directly to the democratic election of Adolph Hitler and WWII. In 1914...

Immigration—everybody’s hot-button issue--and America is once again arguing across the metaphoric back-fence and having the very devil of a time trying to balance fairness and equity. All that intemperate rhetoric in a country that has become (within a single lifetime) anything but fair and wher...

Not the end of conflict, certainly not the end of fighting . . . but it is worth considering that as we blindly multiply our efforts toward a supremacy-gap between ourselves and the rest of the world in military hardware, the enemy is dissolving before our eyes. What can we possibly be thinking? Mor...

The typical conservative leans back on his couch, meditatively stirs his Chivas and water with a pinkie and declares (with some considerable justification) "Well, it’s their own damned fault if they got in over their head. What the hell were they thinking?" People are indeed responsible ...

Just when you think every possible outrage has been committed in the name of George Bush's policy of pre-emptive war, something more comes from the blind-side to knock the wind from an already winded American experience. Pamela Constable writes for the Washington Post Foreign Service. They still hav...

From Sunday's Washington Post, Barbara Ehrenreich writes a column that might better have been a WaPo series over the last 30 years or so that they championed and cheer-led the economic miracle. The Boom Was a Bust For Ordinary People By Barbara EhrenreichSunday, February 3, 2008 I t begins to sound ...

Negotiators Grappling With Stimulus Plan White House, Hill Strive to Maintain Bipartisanship By Jonathan Weisman and Peter BakerWashington Post Staff WritersThursday, January 24, 2008; A03 The White House and congressional leaders struggled yesterday to preserve their newfound alliance on the econom...