To no one’s great surprise, the national unemployment rate today exceeded 10 percent for the first time since 1983. It was another crushing, if symbolic, blow to the psyche of American workers.
The just-announced 10.2 national unemployment rate partly was fueled by…
Steve McDonald working on an F/A-18 Super Hornet nose barrel at Boeing-St. Louis in 2003. (Post-Dispatch/Gabriel B. Tait)
Sen. John McCain said last week that expensive Pentagon weapons systems “are very much like vampires. You can kill one occasionally, but not…
John Shimkus walks out of President Obama's health care speech Sept. 9. (Susan Walsh/AP)
Republican Rep. John Shimkus of Collinsville has accepted an invitation to play basketball with President Obama at the White House tonight, Shimkus’ office reports:
SHIMKUS INVITED TO WHITE…
Howard Dean told a health care roundtable in Washington D.C. that the Medicare eligibility age should be lowered to 50 so that some people will be reaping benefits of health care reform before the 2010 elections, a U.S. News and World Report story.…
R.J. Matson/Post-Dispatch
It’s been a while since I had a little girl of doll-collecting age, so I was a little behind the curve when R.J. Matson showed me the rough draft of today’s cartoon. I didn’t get the gag…and now that…
Fine art needs a fine German castle.
In the very, very old days, the social value of private transportation was easy to figure. A person could go no farther in a day than he could walk; if he got where he was…
Here in flyover country, there is a temptation to a certain schadenfreude about the problems besetting the state of California. Years of hearing about sunshine, scenery, science, beaches, mountains, movie stars and cheap education at terrific public universities can’t help…
Loch Ness Monster
Low, even by the sub-basement standards inside the Beltway - as reported by WSJ blog: forged letters purporting to be from local community groups.
An update from the Washington Post here.
Update: YouTube video has been pulled but now available here.
868 government units…and most of them invisible
President Barack Obama, speaking at an event hosted by the White House Office on Urban Affairs earlier this month, noted that the nation’s metropolitan areas are “home to 85 percent of our jobs and 90…
Sonia Sotomayor and family members listen to Judiciary Committee hearings.
The Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearings for Sonia Sotomayor, the first Hispanic woman nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court, began this morning with a respectful tone though some lectured her about the concept of judicial…
The processes of globalization, suitably understood and directed, open up the unprecedented possibility of large-scale redistribution of wealth on a world-wide scale ….
If you think that President Barack Obama is a socialist, wait’ll you hear what the pope had to say…
The Post-Dispatch published an article today, interviewing Americans of Iranian descent and seeing what they had to say about the unrest in their motherland.
One reader called in and had an interesting observation about the way the article was written. He felt it was…
A sign marks the offices of Hi-Tech Security, a private company that patrols residential neighborhoods in the city. Elie Gardner/Post-Dispatch
It’s no secret that many, if not most, police officers “moonlight.” Officers depend on overtime or off-duty jobs to supplement their…
Conceptual scheme for Jefferson National Expansion Memorial 1947 colored pencil on tracing paper. Eero Saarinen, Bloomfield Hills, Mich. Drawn by J. Henderson Barr.
Who wants to commune with legendary architect Eero Saarinen and design a coda to his transcendent masterwork, the…
Ever since coming here, the uniform complaint I seem to get from Americans from all walks of life seems to be about the healthcare system.
The complainants range from university students to cabbies, reporters to driving instructors and lecturers to executives.
Mostly,…
A friend forwarded me an article on some of the happenings back home in Malaysia. Check it out.
Aren’t you glad you’ve got the right to protest over here?
In January 2005, I was run over by a truck. I was on my 125cc Yamaha motorcycle and at T-junction. The truck, coming from my right, indicated that it was going to turn left into my lane. Thinking it was…
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