Archive for July, 2010

Spike Lee screened some of his new HBO

documentary that includes a look at the massive BP Gulf oil spill and says no one from the oil giant is speaking to him.

The director showed about 90 minutes of “If God Is Willing and Da Creek Don’t Rise” at the…

The Bush tax cuts were a huge success, and failing to extend them for all Americans — not just families earning less than $250,000, as President Barack Obama proposes — would be a terrible mistake.

Contrary to White House propaganda, George…

How can it be possible that after 18 months in office, President Barack Obama still has not appointed a director for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the federal agency charged with monitoring illegal flows of weapons? We know…

The longest stretch the United States has ever gone without a financial crisis was during the nearly 40 years between the end of the Great Depression and 1973.

How did we manage it then? Can we do it again?

Financial crises during the past two centuries…

Door to door campaigning in blistering summer heat. Getting slammed by anonymous Internet commenters. Pleading for money.

For the next three weeks that’s the life Karen Harrington, Robert Lowry and Donna Milo have chosen.

The three are competing for the…

Monday marks the 20th anniversary of the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.

Coincidentally, the day also marks the one-month anniversary of the start of the 10-day imprisonment in Kuwait of Khaled Alfadala, a former student of mine at the University of Hartford….

A year or two ago, I received this e-mail. The writer was upset with me for arguing that school principals should have the power to fire teachers who do not perform. As numerous educators have told me, union protections being what they are, dumping a…

The financial reform bill signed into law by President Barack Obama may look like a giant cornucopia of helpful changes for homebuyers and loan applicants — not the least of which will be the creation of a powerful Consumer Financial Protection…