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A reader sent me an e-mail the other day regarding my post last week on the supposed "minor" fixes that would cure Social Security's long term solvency problems. In that post I did some seat-of-my-pants calculations that showed how the demographic problem would translate into the average worker's FICA line on their paycheck. The reader […]

Well, the bracket is set and I must say that much more impressed with the choices made by the selection committee this year than I was the last. Last year, Utah State was ranked in the Associated Press Top 25 poll, yet lost to a resurgent Pacific in the Big West Tournament final -- the […]

When I was staying home from work sick earlier this week (I'm still a little under the weather, but I'm doing better. Thanks for asking.), I took the opportunity to flip over to CBS in time to watch Dan Rather's send off. After watching it, I'm confident that I definitely have "courage." Rather's closing statement […]

I've got a couple of Social Security related items for today. First, Paul Krugman has once again opined on Social Security, but we've still not been graced with a "Krugman Plan." [The graphic has been updated.] In today's column, Krugman does offer a hint at his preferred solution -- a combination of a rise in […]

Texas Sen. John Cornyn has a letter to the editor in today's New York Times that exposes that the editorial page's opposition to changing the filibuster rule all depends on who is trying to do it. To the Editor: "The Senate on the Brink" (editorial, March 6) supports the "historic role of the filibuster," which […]

Over at Private Radio, JohnnyMC has put up a flash animation of New York Times columnist Paul Krugman's conflicting views of the Social Security issue. Check it out.

It can be nothing less than a conscious decision to ignore outraged readers that the Los Angeles Times still has not published any letters critical of its North Korean propaganda piece. Journalism. Wound. Self-inflicted. Solvency.

The New York Times reporter Chris Hedges -- last in the news after being booed off the stage at a college graduation ceremony when he went into an anti-American tirade -- apparently has a Jayson Blair problem. Benjamin Blatt has cross-referenced the account of the Battle of Khafji during Gulf War I in Hedges' book […]

Teresa Heinz Kerry was in the Pacific Northwest at a fund-raiser for Democrat Rep. Adam Smith. She opened her mouth, and her brain fell out. A practicing Catholic, as is her husband, Heinz Kerry remains outraged at attacks by bishops on her husband's pro-choice views. "You cannot have bishops in the pulpit -- long before […]

But you get what you pay for. I've got a half-dozen browser windows open with stuff I want to opine on, but I've gotten hit with a nasty cold/flu-type ailment that's just wiped me out. I haven't gotten a good night's sleep in five days -- I catch an hour here or there. I'll try […]