Author: Michael Laprarie

As I noted last week, Hugo Chavez seized yet another chunk of Venezuela's oil industry this weekend, since it is apparently much more economical for the government to steal …

Of course the exact nature of the mission still remains classified ......

MarketWatch is reporting that Rupert Murdoch, the billionaire media tycoon and infamous founder of the dastardly Fox News channel, believes that the current recession may be coming to an …

In 1946, George Orwell presciently observed, "The word Fascism has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies 'something not desirable.'" He also noted: In conversation, of …

When you look up the word "asshat" in the dictionary, you should see a picture of Arlen Specter: Mr. Specter, responding to a question from CBS' Bob Schieffer over …

This morning, Yahoo news is running the headline, "Obama says financial sector to shrink": The financial sector will make up a smaller part of the U.S. economy in the …

ABC News is reporting: Thomas Lauria, Global Practice Head of the Financial Restructuring and Insolvency Group at White & Case, told ABC News that Rattner...

Speaking to a Planned Parenthood Conference in Washington, DC, in July 2007, then-Senator Barack Obama made the following observation with respect to the qualifications of Supreme Court justices: "We …

Most of the commentary that I've read about the "first 100 days" has been centered around President Obama. But what we have really just experienced is the first 100 …

Last Friday, the Associated Press released probably the most accurate, non-biased tabulation of civilian deaths due to violent acts in the nation of Iraq since March 2003: Combined with …