Live from the Nuke Free Zone

Back in 1969, Congress identified 155 households making bunches of money, tax-free, who were managing to avoid taxes. They passed some legislation called the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) that forced these households to pay at least a minimum tax payment in order to be fair….

Regarding the Democratic debate to be held here at Drexel in two weeks, I last posted that I was pondering some questions to ask.  Here are some possibilities I’ve come up with; comments solicited:
1.) Thomas Jefferson exhorts us to “Fix Reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion.’  What […]

I am currently working at Drexel University, which has recently been scheduled to host the October 30th Democratic Presidential debate. This means, presumably, that I may have the opportunity to ask a question.
Being a mathematician and educator by trade, I am particularly interested in questions on math, science, education, or combinations of these. […]

Data on Iraq violence is analyzed. The surge has had an absolute effect but a very small seasonally adjusted effect, and no or negative effect when compared with data beyond 2006.

Now here’s something odd. You have to have been poking around multiple news stories to see it, but…
In India:
The [leading] party has been dogged by inflation, particularly in the prices of food…
In China:
Steeply rising food prices pushed inflation in China to 5.6 percent last month, the fastest pace in a decade… consumer prices for […]

Planning for and carrying out a withdrawal of combat troops from Iraq over the next several months is an important component of spurring progress among the disparate Iraqi populations on issues of importance to Iraq’s long-term security and stability.

We got the House.
It looks like we got the Senate.  Hopefully.
We took several state legislatures.  This has national implications because it may allow redistricting to favor Democratic candidates in the next round, though I would rather bite the ethics bullet and have our new majorities push for simply drawing representative districts under neutral oversight rather […]

Recently in discussion with friends it was suggested that the accumulated damage being done to our social fabric by the actions of this administration was possibly nearing the point of irreparability.  I held this not to be the case, and mentioned a list I have been keeping for some time.  This is my To Be […]

Tomorrow I’ll be attending the Centre County Democratic Party’s monthly breakfast.  It’s more of a social event than a working event — it builds party bonds and attracts new people.  However, we also have a speaker — I may blog on the discussion next week — and tomorrow’s topic will be immigration.  This topic has […]

Well, I missed my regular Friday Questions column, but I’ve got a pretty good late version today, I think.
I’m reading articles about the Democrats challenging the Administration’s administration of the Iraq war, and the Republicans firing back in general with either “you don’t have a plan” or, if a plan is presented, “you want to […]