As I am apt to do while driving, I was listening to NPR’s news programming as I was heading home from work yesterday. All Things Considered and Morning Edition are programs I enjoy, as I feel they are usually fair and balanced in what they report and how they report it. They were playing...
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When the larger banks in the United States were receiving bailout funds from the federal government in October of 2008, many people wondered if we would ever see most of that money again. I was in the crowd who figured it was gone for good. Most of it will probably never be seen again,...
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If our country were not having such economic trouble, it would be completely hilarious to watch economists and other so-called experts trying to predict what our economy is going to do next. Anyone who happens to be paying attention to the news knows that unemployment is higher than it has been for years. Twenty-six...
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As some of you may know, I am apt to listen to NPR’s Morning Edition on the way to work every morning. I have found them to lean a bit left, but overall to be fairly even and balanced in what they report and how they report it. I have to say however, I...
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As I am apt to do most mornings, I have been listening to NPR’s Morning Edition on the way to work and have been paying special attention to their coverage of the health care debate in Congress. They featured a story yesterday about a group of six Senators who were trying to reach an...
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With John McCain the presumptuous nominee of the Republican party, it would appear that he is in a noose of his own making. For years, McCain has been the “champion” against special interests and for campaign finance reform. The McCain-Feingold bill has been championed as what was needed to clean up the fiasco we...
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