By Ben Sills - Mar 29, 2011
Solar-panel installations may rise by more than 50 percent this year, matching Apple Inc. (AAPL)’s 2010 sales increase after launching the iPad, as the technology emerges as a … [Keep reading >>]
By Mark Schlueb, Orlando Sentinel
6:03 PM EDT, April 20, 2011
Unions representing Central Florida teachers, firefighters, police and other government workers are pulling an estimated $10 million from five banks affiliated with … [Keep reading >>]
Thank goodness for House Budget Committee Chair Paul Ryan, R-Wis.
Because of the budget plan put forward by the Wisconsin Republican, we are finally going to have a tax policy debate … [Keep reading >>]
“A stunning tornado outbreak of incredible violence has left at least 202 dead across the Eastern U.S.; injuries probably number over a thousand, with 600 injured in the … [Keep reading >>]
The nation’s main firefighters’ union, long a strong supporter of Democratic candidates, announced on Tuesday that it would indefinitely suspend all contributions to federal candidates out of frustration with Congressional … [Keep reading >>]
Whew! Is the great beast awakening? The silly kids have been poking it with the stick of radical inequality for a year or more, now.
In central Florida, a Congressional town … [Keep reading >>]
Another tremor in Japan’s nuclear industry; how big depends on who cares.
Given the fierce insularity of Japan’s nuclear industry, it was perhaps fitting that an outsider exposed the most serious … [Keep reading >>]
Avoid the necessity of those overgrown military establishments, which, under any form of government, are inauspicious to liberty, and which are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.
George Washington, 1st US president, general (1732-1799)
Ahadaf Soueif, is a Cairo born, Egypt and U.K educated, writer, predominantly of fiction. She got major attention with her novel, A Map of Love which was shortlisted for … [Keep reading >>]
This article at TalkingPointsMemo is pretty confusing but as I read it
1) The law firm of King and Spaulding which had contracted with GOP leadership in the House to defend … [Keep reading >>]
I think Nick Kristof has it just about right on the 60 Minutes report on Greg Mortenson, his “Three Cups of Tea” and purported financial malfeasance.
I don’t know what to … [Keep reading >>]
