A great primer from the Washington Post’s Ezra Klein. What happens if we don’t raise the debt ceiling but continue to pay interest on our bonds? This is an option known as “prioritization.” The Bipartisan Policy Center released a reportattempting to think through how this would work in practice, as it has never been attempted [...]
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The New Dan Snyder
Dan Snyder, the owner of a certain Washington based NFL football team that has a racist nickname, is threatening to sue a paper for an article posted if the author is not fired. What’s funny is that the article is not that inflammatory. While it is childish, it’s not any worse than anything written about [...]
Ted Koppel on the impact of a partisan media
An op-ed in the Washington Post The commercial success of both Fox News and MSNBC is a source of nonpartisan sadness for me. While I can appreciate the financial logic of drowning television viewers in a flood of opinions designed to confirm their own biases, the trend is not good for the republic. It is, [...]
Washington Redskins Sue 73 year old women
I am not a big Washington Redskins fan for several reasons. a) Their name is a racial slur. b) They just sued a 73 women going through financial hardships because she could not afford her season tickets. It would be hard to find a more loyal fan of the Washington Redskins than real estate agent [...]
