While the media and the current political party debate seems to indicate a battle between "Conservative" and  "Liberal" ...

Sure seems debate about whether or not to increase the bottomed-out minimum wage takes place in a wacky fantasy world from a kooky Depr...

While outrage over antibiotics in chicken or beef grab headlines, critical questions about antibiotics and other meds taken by us human...

I mentioned earlier (in Time) the state legislature is debating a bill to stop the back and forth of Daylight Savings Time. To clarify...

A study from Oxfam reveals a mere 85 people own nearly half the assets of our planet. And that means it takes combining the assets of...

A handy glimpse at the national crime wave known as Black Friday 2013 : " On Black Friday, thousands of Walmart employees and ...

The Republicans in Washington need an update to their symbol. The above image captures what I imagine might be the self-image of man...

Surveys say: "President Barack Obama won the public argument over taxes so decisively that almost half of Republicans now say ...

Walking dead folks are quite popular - so popular that they could bring a wave of economic booms and boomlets. One developer in Detroit...

So very much of the talk from our leaders in government from the state to the federal level suffers a debilitating lack of vision. ...

In January of this year, I ran a post about conflicting reports on working conditions in Chinese factories where Apple (and many other ma...

Rallying for their lives American media is beginning to notice that our low-cost demand for consumer goods and the deep desire for o...

Conflicting accounts are beginning to get media attention about a group of possibly hundreds of workers at a plant in China who threatene...

While there were many popular posts here during 2011, there was one which drew more readers and visitors than any other by an enormous margi...

It really is annoying how I learn more and more as I get older that I don't know diddly-squat about what I thought I knew, and that th...

I'm leaning more and more towards at least understanding why massive protests nationwide are being maintained, that indeed 99% of Am...

Once again, the oddest of political animals - politicians who campaign by calling the government a monstrous creation - returns, as Lt. Go...

It is an ancient political tactic - the claim a candidate will "bring the Nation back" to something it was but is no more. I'...

Tom Humphrey's Sunday column in the KNS on how much Tennessee (and every other state) depends on Federal funding, despite political cla...

So a U.S. Treasury agent caught a 2 trillion dollar mistake by the S&P as the S&P was set to downgrade the U.S. credit rating. ...