聽Well, the U.S. government doesn't require a big old yard sale to try to pay down its debt after all.All of those unnecessarily wrung hands on Capitol Hill; all of that political posturing and those harsh words - but we're right back where we started.The entire argument over raising the debt ...
聽聽Many Americans had no idea what raising the debt limit meant until this year.It'd been such a perfunctory part of the way things functioned in Washington over the years, that it rarely got more than a brief mention outside of it.How perfunctory? Well, since 1917, the debt limit has been ...
These are part of the broadly named "Dog Days" of summer.I used the word "broadly," because down through the years there has been no consensus about when the exact dates the "Dog Days" occur.The Old Farmer's Almanac defines the "Dog Days" as taking place the 40 days that begin on July 1, and ...
<em>(Editor's note: This is the second story in a two-part series)</em>Last week, I took a look back at the month before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.While much of Europe was already engulfed in war, the United States remained at peace.Yet Fayette County's ...
Nothing could free me of my obsession with national politics like a good old fashioned pennant run.So what if the entire U.S. government might go belly up - those young fellows operating out of PNC Park keep getting us to "raise the Jolly Roger" with increasing frequency.For the first time in ...
Presidential candidate Michele Bachmann is now a frontrunner with Iowa caucus voters. She leads her fellow Republican challenger Mitt Romney by four percentage points.Romney, though, might be snickering at the latest results.He knows, as many Americans who follow these things know, Bachmann's ...