The ongoing deficit battle, which many had feared would shut down the US Government, has seemingly been averted, but only for now. We can probably expect these "shutdown scenarios" to be played out several more times at least in the upcoming weeks, if not months, as both the hypocrisy and the disingenuity of those who simply cannot understand the import of America's spending problem is paraded out for all the world to see. more »

As a vast majority of Americans appear increasingly stunned at the never-ending if not increasingly bizarre turn of events playing out, much of the world seems to watch in anxiety. We have written on a number of  prior occasions as to how a large number… more »

Irreconcilable Differences: Governing Against the Will of the People and the Constitution As Americans continue their combined and heroic efforts at battling their way out of the economic doldrums that increasingly seems as being bolstered if not imped… more »

    The President this past week had his meeting with the Dalai Lamas.  Upon ending the meeting the President presented the always sleevelessly robed Tibetian Monk with a set of white house cuff links. more »