The U S Labor Department continues to report 9.1 % unemployment. It has been above 9% since mid-2009. For how they do this, see here. If you pay attention, and I won’t use complex graphs here, you will also have…
Author: Bernard Chumm
Chris Matthews Plays “Anti-Intellectual” Card, Reince Priebus, GOP Ducks
In the Yes, We’re Still Losing Department: Chris Matthews had this brief tete de tete with Reince Priebus, the GOP’s already lamented new chief. What the GOP leadership is good at, always been good at, is dodging easy questions, mistakenly…
Baathist Syria vs. the Muslim Brotherhood, Part II
The Baathist Party of Syria, under Hafez al-Assad took power in Syria in 1970. The are an old style dictatorial regime ruling with an iron fist. The Baathists, while paying lip service to Islam was/is essentially a secular political regime,…