- December 19, 2011Today is a special day for fans of Tiny Tim, Bob Cratchit, the various Christmas ghosts and Scrooge, both before…
- December 19, 2011A couple of weeks ago, I posted some moves to make regarding your taxes, investments, retirement, gifting and general financial…
- December 18, 2011Remember that game of political chicken I mentioned a couple of days ago? That was when funding for Uncle Sam's…
- December 18, 2011As film fans know, the Golden Globes often offer a preview of the soon-to-follow Academy Awards. There's some doubt about…
- December 17, 2011Well, they've done it again. The Senate this morning followed through on its threat -- I can't bring myself to…
- December 16, 2011It seems that members of Congress are Loverboy fans. When it comes to getting their work done, they've decided to…
- December 15, 2011Today Republicans and Democrats decided to stop sniping at each other and appear to be working on a compromise to…
- December 15, 2011While Congress is gridlocked -- and possibly heading toward another government shutdown -- over how to keep the 4.2 percent payroll…
- December 14, 2011Most of the time when members of Congress don't play well together, I try to ignore them. It happens all…
- December 14, 2011The economy was just starting to recover in 2010, but more people felt confident enough to bump up their charitable…