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The real bankrollers of Obama's budget plans come directly from the old political playbook: First, future generations of Americans, who will face our tripled national debt. Second, those reliable villains favored by every Democratic speechwriter, "the top 2%," namely Americans with incomes of $250,000 or more, who already...
British voters - or at any rate, those voters who work for Britain's robustly opinionated media - are calling for heads to roll as each day brings new revelations about MPs' overblown expense claims. Today, Michael Martin, the Speaker of the House of Commons, became the scandal's highest-profile victim...
Details of MPs' expenses were due to be published by the authorities in expurgated form this summer. Instead, the uncensored information reached the opposition Tory-supporting Daily Telegraph and its Sunday sister paper. The imbroglio piles on the discomfort for Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who already trails the Conservatives in...
There are two ways of tipping a balance sheet into the black: raising revenues or cutting costs. In the tea-growing region of central Kenya farmers trained in simple organic techniques are pursuing the second option. Their methods - raised beds, deep pits for water-harvesting, compost piles, intercropped maize and...
Credit-card companies, though, may not be the only ones we need to be protected from. Every penny of Americans' nearly $1 trillion in revolving debt started with someone - some individual person - whipping out a piece of plastic and making a decision to use it. We could consider that free...