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New paper: How Much Risk is Acceptable?, written 4 days ago, The Center for Retirement Research at Boston College released a new issue brief by Alicia H. Munnell, Anthony Webb and Alex Golub-Sass titled "How much risk is acceptable?". Here's the abstract: The financial crisis has sparke...

An Obama Win: The Immigration Factor, written 3 weeks ago, Dear Readers, Let's talk about what's next, after the Presidential Election. It's likely that Obama will win, for sure, but how will he approach immigration - and what's likely to happen? Obama has stated that he is for 'Comprehensive Imm...

Insured Americans Also Need National Health Insurance, written 5 days ago, @ltaQUOTE by Steffie Woolhandler M.D., Co-founder, Physicians for a National Health Program .......... President-Elect Obama, and many other politicians, would have us believe that only the uninsured need health reform, and t...

How Much of a Role did Mark-to-Market Accounting Play in the Credit Crisis?, written 4 days ago, Not many people outside of the financial world would consider the possibility of a technical accounting rule playing a role in the credit crisis. Unfortunately, it takes a crisis of this magnitude to bri...

Prop 11 margin continues to grow, written 5 days ago, The Secretary of State’s update from late Monday morning shows Prop 11’s margin contiues to grow. With another 165,000 ballots counted since Friday evening, the Yes on 11 margin grew by another 4,274. Yes on 11 now leads by 186,167 votes —...

Hiatus, written 1 week ago, I'm going to be taking a bit of a hiatus for awhile from posting on The Cannon's Mouth. The truth is, for more than three months now the posts I've written were either written in the late spring and scheduled to post or e-mailed in when I had a chance. I've just returne...

For My Fellow Veterans, written 1 week ago,       

Lindley-French on a new EU-NATO agenda, written 1 week ago, As Gideon Rachman recently pointed out on his blog, conferences can be hit or miss affairs. Using the examples of the two latest such events he has attended (on the futures of the EU and US engagement strategies respectively), he also remin...

Why hasn't Halliburton come up more in the presidential campaign?, written 3 weeks ago, John McCain has repeatedly sought to portray Barack Obama as a proponent of earmark and pork barrel spending, using the famous and inaccurate $3 million overhead projector example in the debates. It would have b...

Leader, n. The member of any group, large or small,..., written 1 month ago, Leader, n. The member of any group, large or small, that has the most intense desire for safety in numbers. 2008 GW BUSH "The leaders gathered together in Washington this weekend are all working together. We’re in...

Grand jury charges against Cheney, written 4 days ago, A Texas Grand Jury has Charged Dick Cheney with organised criminal activity, Bwhahaahahahahahahahahah! General Alberto Gonzales too! Hahahah, stop it your killing me.........all over prison abuse, and not even at Gitmo, snort, it's in regard ...

Classmates are not looking for you, written 4 days ago, Wired notes that a California man filed a lawsuit against classmates.com for allegedly misrepresenting that former classmates were looking for him on line.  According to the complaint, the plaintiff paid $15 for a subscription to the social ne...

New challengers for Governor and Lt. Governor, written 1 week ago, The race for Governor and Lieutenant Governor is getting interesting as a new Democratic challenger, Terry McAuliffe, former Democratic National Committee chairman and successful businessman has filed paperwork to launch a potential ...

Once and future intelligence challenges: labor, written 1 month ago, As we contemplate the prospect of a sustained global downturn – be it recession or even depression – there are a number of issues which will raise their ugly heads in an environment where the forward press of globalization may ...

Marx Cafe tonight!, written 4 days ago, Hey all, I'll be playing some dope UKG tonight up in the Mount Pleasant. Music starts at 10pm. See ya there!

Capella at IACP in San Diego on Veteran's Day, written 1 week ago, Hello everyone, I just returned from the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) technology conference in San Diego. There were thousands of chiefs, commanders and law enforcement professionals from the U.S. and abroad. ...

Winds of Change Signal Seismic Shift in U.S. Climate Change Policy, written 2 days ago, There were two events in Washington that clearly signal that climate change and greenhouse gas management will soon become a front-burner political issue starting in January. President-elect Obama’s address to...

Because it is Friday Evening...(Election and Greenspan special), written 2 weeks ago, First the Election: GYWO: Get the latest news satire and funny videos at 236.com.Obama Win Causes Obsessive Supporters To Realize How Empty Their Lives Are ...and now the Maestro: First the maestro his inner Smooth...

BNP Membership list, written 4 days ago, I finally found the document that the blogsphere is laughing at, and did a search of what is claimed to be the membership list, to find our local Nazis supporters of an extreme right-wing party with a tendency to physically assault opponents; and whose main o...