Here are some highlights from the unemployment data released today: WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- The U.S. labor market weakened in September as 263,000 payroll jobs were lost and the unemployment …

We knew the economy would continue to deteriorate, but it is still difficult to read numbers like this: U.S. employers cut a deeper-than-expected 263,000 jobs in September, lifting the …

It's Friday, which means it's time for the Wizbang Weekend Caption Contest™. Given the subject matter I'm running the contest a few hours early. Enter your best caption for …

Earlier we reported on the extortion attempt that David Letterman faced. The scandal just gets so much juicier. The person behind the blackmail attempt is an Emmy award winning …

Remember when David Letterman made that tasteless, classless comment about Sarah Palin's daughter Willow last summer? The one where he joked that Palin's fourteen year old daughter was knocked …

Well, Congressman Alan Grayson (D-FL) is getting heat for saying that Republicans want people to die. In the interest of fairness, I feel I should point out the ways …

Big jobless claims and worse than expected manufacturing numbers helped make for a bad day on Wall Street.Stocks tumbled Thursday after a disappointing ISM report on manufacturing piled on …

The IRS is in court in two states, fighting some taxpayers who claimed deductions for donating their homes to their local community. And it raises some interesting points. Every …

On Tuesday the Senate Finance Committee voted on two public option amendments, one from Jay Rockefeller and another by Charles Schumer. Both went down to defeat, which gave the …

Most people have never heard of the Obama Administration's "Safe School Czar" Kevin Jennings. But according to this Washington Times editorial, we should be very wary of this man: …