While the Bush Social Security plan continues to founder in the face of sober and responsible analysis, it is worth taking a moment to consider the fate of San Diego’s experience in ideologically driven investing – its billion dollar plus current pension-funding crisis.
This week, San Diego mayor Dick Murphy (a Republican ex-judge and […]

April 20 – The application list of an aspiring college freshman, you think? No.

Rather this is a progression of student-labor actions for union recognition of graduate teaching assistants (TAs) and research assistants (RAs), whose private university employers refusing to negotiate with them as an organized workforce. The rallies and marches are the apex of a […]

While much ink has been spilled since Hunter S. Thompson killed himself, little has been said about what I consider to be his signal characteristic – his skills as a writer. From our current historical vantage point, it is also easy to forget that Rolling Stone, that institutional party organ of baby-boomer exceptionalism, was once […]

The April 7th decision by the Mexican Congress (controlled by the PRI & PAN) to strip Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador of immunity is the most blatant indication that Mexico’s nascent rise from it’s corrupt and crony political past is declining rapidly. 
As Mayor of Mexico City, Lopez Obrador governs over the largest municipality in the […]

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