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Hacked

A couple of weeks ago I logged into my Gmail and saw a warning that my account had been access by someone in Serbia.  I quickly changed my password and looked at my usage files and saw that yes my account had been access for a while from someone in Serbia.  I didn’t look like [...]

Is Eric Cantor the House of Representatives Last Valuable Player

From James Fallows in The Atlantic Last month I argued that House Majority Leader Eric Cantor was doing more harm to the national interest, or at least doing so more noticeably, than any of his Republican or Democratic colleagues on Capitol Hill. Events during the budget/debt-ceiling “negotiations” suggest that he was just getting started back [...]

From $10 Trillion to $23 Trillion in Debt

Frontline has an excellent show on how the United States got to $10 trillion in debt and what it will mean when it gets to $23 trillion in debt.  Hint: Fixing this financial crisis may make an even bigger one. James Fallows writes in The Atlantic that China holds $1.4 trillion of that debt (we [...]