During the past six years, the Bush administration has spent almost $100 million so far on a highly classified program to help Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf secure his country's nuclear weapons, according to current and former senior administration officials. ...more

November 18, 2007

many haven't - but forget all those horrors that recently haunted Halloween movie and TV screens. AMT is the real thing - a monster that's about to eat you up. Well, a lot of you anyway. ...more

November 14, 2007

One thing the Republican Party has usually been able to depend on is the support of well-off capitalists: From Calvin Coolidge's declaration that 'the chief business of the American people is business' to George Bush's generous tax cuts, it has always been pretty clear to wealth-creators which side their bread is buttered on. ...more

October 29, 2007

President Bush on Saturday signed a bill to prevent a government shutdown, but not without complaint. ...more

September 30, 2007

Imagine trying to trim a billion dollars out of the budget. That might not seem like too much if you're talking about the federal budget, but it's Florida's budget, and that's a problem. So how do you do it? Obviously you start cutting. But what about spending money? That's what Gov. Charlie Crist wants to do, and we think he's on to something. Just about everything is on the table for proposed cuts, although Crist has said education would not be touched. He has, however, said that state reserves should be used to start major infrastructure construction projects such as roads and schools to invigorate the construction business. By doing this, he says, it will kick-start the state's economy. We're not sure how that would work on the state level, but there's no doubt that the flat housing market in Highlands County is having a massive negative effect on those of us living here. With no major manufacturing plant that employs a huge number of people here, construction and all of its offshoots drives this area's economy, along with citrus. ...more

September 9, 2007