Because sometimes things just need to be said….
Always a tricky subject but I’ll offer my 2 cents on anything.
Donald Trump has predicted the end of the Iran war so many times that reporters started keeping a running tally. As of this week, the count sits at 23. On September 9, he made prediction number 24: “I think the war’s going to end immediately after the election because they can’t hold out any longer.” …
Congress has spent six years and more than forty separate bills trying to write federal rules for how college athletes get paid, and it still hasn’t passed a single one, zero, since the fight started back in 2021. That’s the tally according to sports law scholar Michael McCann, who’s testified on this exact topic more …
August’s jobs report came in Friday morning, and it was a good one: 162,000 jobs added, more than double what economists were expecting, unemployment holding steady at 4.1 percent. That’s normally a number worth celebrating. Instead, a few hours later, the president threatened to stop trading with most of the world. At 9:56am, he posted …
In February, six Supreme Court justices told Donald Trump his tariffs were illegal. Two of the six were his own appointees. His response was to call them fools, question their loyalty, and keep charging you the tariffs anyway. Here’s the part that should bother you more than the insult. On February 20, in Learning Resources …
Nobody at the Federal Reserve wants to use the word “bailout.” So they didn’t. Since last fall, the New York Fed has pumped more than $420 billion into Wall Street through repo operations — short-term loans where banks hand over Treasury bills as collateral and walk away with cash. The Fed used to cap this …
Try buying more than a box or two of Sudafed at once. A pharmacist will look at you funny, ask a question, maybe make a phone call. Nobody calls that a war on cold sufferers. We built an entire national system, prescription drug monitoring programs, specifically to flag people buying suspicious quantities of controlled substances …
Eighty-six percent of Americans want to ban members of Congress from trading individual stocks. Republicans and Democrats can’t agree on much lately — this is one of the rare things they do, and by a landslide. So naturally, the bill that actually passed the House this summer doesn’t ban it. On July 22, the House …
Your electric bill went up again this year. Mine did too — about $110 more than last year, which happens to land right around the national average increase. Meanwhile, the companies sending you that bill just wrapped up their best five years ever. From 2021 to 2025, investor-owned electric utilities pocketed $244 billion in profit …
Warren Buffett’s secretary has paid a higher tax rate than Warren Buffett for years now, and somehow that’s still true in 2026. It’s not because the tax code has a soft spot for old men who like Cherry Coke — it’s because the way the ultra-rich actually get paid barely resembles a paycheck, and the …
Congress released this year’s Congressional Pig Book in May, and the top line is $23.7 billion spread across 8,392 earmarks, the fourth-highest total since anyone started keeping score in 1991. That’s already a lot of money. But the number that actually made me stop scrolling wasn’t the total. It was the door. Senator Chuck Schumer …
Black Lives Matter is an exceptionally important in this country – in the world as it gains (finally) some real momentum in the Summer of 2020. The potential for change seems real – the right people are saying the right things and even starting to do the right things. Has the idea of defunding the …
I’m getting so tired of hearing about stuff like this. This is exactly why these companies should have been allowed to fold and go bankrupt. Then maybe somebody would learn something. Instead, we bail them out. And when I say we I mean that almost literally – it’s government money and government money comes from …