Politifact and FactCheck.org can be very useful if you actually read what they write, and use your knowledge, in context, to add to your understanding of the facts surrounding what candidates say. But I've found their top line true vs. … [Read more...]

In another enforcement action, the young Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is forcing Discover to refund $200 million to credit card customers due to deceptive marketing practices that tricked customers into signing up for services they … [Read more...]

Earlier this month, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee held hearings on Obamacare. Darrell Issa, the committee's Republican chair, warned about health care reform's supposed effects on jobs and economic growth, and he lined … [Read more...]

Monday morning I called our US Senator's office to ask his views on the Repeal Big Oil Tax Subsidies Act, which the Senate was planning to take up that day. When the staffer answered, I asked him to tell me what the Senator's views on … [Read more...]

We just had a state senate special election here in Boston and Cambridge and a few nearby towns today. Polls closed a little less than 2 hours ago. Boston.com front page: nothing at all. No mention of the election, or results. I … [Read more...]

I'd like to see Elizabeth Warren win the Democratic primary. But it doesn't make me happy to see the other candidates start to drop out. Bob Massie states that the race has changed such that he doesn't think he can win, and perhaps he's … [Read more...]

The Great Depression began in the fall of 1929. For years, Congress and the Hoover administration tried to keep the Federal budget deficit down, restraining spending increases to well below what was needed and attempting to balance them … [Read more...]

Congress voted this week to extend three provisions of the Patriot Act for four more years: The "roving John Doe wiretap" provision, which allows surveillance orders that do not identify either the person who is a target, nor the kind of … [Read more...]

Suspect Is Arrested in Spokane Bomb Case: Federal agents arrested a suspect Wednesday in connection with the attempted bombing of a Martin Luther King Day memorial march in Spokane, Wash. I've skimmed through several articles about this … [Read more...]

Today is the anniversary of the day in 2007 when Boston was under attack by cartoon terrorists. On this day, we ought to reflect and remember the victims. I don't mean the mooninites' usual victims Master Shake, Frylock, and Meatwad; on … [Read more...]