Thanks to a discussion on NPR yesterday, I became aware of a little provision in tax law that in the age of the wealthy...
Ashura 1388 - December 27, 2009, begins over 1,300 years ago. During the three year reign of Yazid I (680-683 CE) of the Ummayad...
My very first effort at writing here on PlanetPOV was about this subject, one that I believe to be of vital importance to the...
In a breathless display of hypocrisy and hyperbole Jacob Heilbrunn is drumming up the latest attempt by Al Qaeda as all Obama's fault. The...
From Talking Points Memo:
Specter: Republicans Plotted Early To Stop Bipartisanship, Beat Obama In 2012
During his appearance yesterday on Fox News Sunday, Sen. Arlen Specter (D-PA)...
From Think Progress:
Gingrich: Republicans ‘Will Run On An Absolute Pledge To Repeal This Bill’
Yesterday, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) refused to acknowledge that Republicans...
The outcome of the 2010 midterms will be a referendum on the current health care reform legislation. The economy is showing signs of making...
Although I no longer comment over at that other place, I occasionally do a fly by (no pun intended) for a look-see. On my...
On Christmas Day, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a young man from a wealthy Nigerian family, tried to detonate a bomb on a flight from Amsterdam...
Some years ago, I flew down to Guatemala to visit a good friend who had stayed on there after two years in the Peace...




