The growing national debt demands immediate attention and real solutions from America’s elected leadership. That was the message delivered yesterday by a group of young Americans at a press conference with House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA). “The greatest dysfunction of all is the fact that these young… Read more »
The Federation of American Scientists has released a 25-page white paper that looks at the potential global impacts of various actions against Iran. In Sanctions, Military Strikes, and Other Potential Actions Against Iran [pdf], Charles P. Blair and Mark Jansson lay it out starkly. Jasmin Ramsey writes: Based on consul[t]ations with a group of nine… Read more »
On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson and Ben Domenech are joined by Francis Cianfrocca to discuss the market fallout of Obama’s re-election, replacements for Timothy Geithner and what Elizabeth Warren’s election means for the banking industry. Source:
Maybe it's time for MSNBC's Chris Matthews to retire. On Friday's Hardball, the 66-year-old host actually said that people's view of the Trayvon Martin-George Zimmerman case is impacted by "so much history ever since the first slave arrived in the United States" (video follows with transcribed highlights and commentary): In the middle of a lengthy… Read more »