As many as 15,000 soldiers who have been injured in Iraq have been left off the official casualty count because their injuries were not sustained as a result of enemy fire. CBS News reports while most of these injuries are not life threatening, “only 20 percent return to their units in Iraq.
Read moreThe administration’s own Federal Reserve Chairman, Alan Greenspan, warned this week that “The persistence of bloated U.S. trade deficits over time can pose a risk to the U.S. economy.” So far, Greenspan said, foreigners have been willing to lend the U.S. money to finance the current account imbalances, but “at some point foreigners might suddenly lose interest in holding dollar-denominated investments.
Read moreThis weekend, Iraq’s Independent Electoral Commission announced the nation would hold elections on January 30. There are serious obstacles still to be overcome to meet that objective. Flawed or delayed elections would be a significant blow to Iraq’s stability and threaten civil war.
Read moreI guess the Holiday Season sort of officially started for me last night. A friend of ours, BR, builds a
Read moreI think it was just last week that Miami-Dade police officers used a taser stun gun to subdue a very dangerous six year old boy. They claimed he was holding a shard of glass and threatening to hurt himself, so I went easy on that one.
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