Add Washington to the list of blue states with grossly underfunded public pension systems. A great new investigative piece in the Seattle Times finds that the state is using fanciful figures to provide teachers and taxpayers with misleading assurances about the safety of the pension system, one of the largest in the nation: After consulting with several […]

Demolished churches, shuttered schools and orphanages, censorship raids on private libraries, and deportations. These are all things Christians in Sudan now have to deal with on a regular basis. According to Reuters, ever since the country’s Christian-heavy southern section seceded, the persecution in the north has increased dramatically: Sudan’s President Omar Hassan al-Bashir has said […]

Over at the New York Times where hostility to all things Roman Catholic is a longstanding tradition, Frank Bruni has mixed a unique cocktail of one part sharp observation, two parts confusion about Christian teaching, a dash of schadenfreude and splash of scandal. It is, in other words, business as usual at the newspaper of […]

This week, we took a close look at how the world leaders across the globe have utterly failed to provide the bold leadership the world needs in the face of a serious crisis. Italy’s dysfunctional political class is leading the way, but the rest of the world, from America to China, is not far behind: […]

In 2005 George Soros’ top hedge fund manager Stan Druckenmiller predicted the 2008 crash. Now he’s back to warn that a worse one is on the way: In a recent interview with Bloomberg TV, Druckenmiller sounded off about policies that enrich the old at the expense of the young and which could lead to a serious […]

The war of words between Scotland and the Cameron government is intensifying as the Scottish independence referendum approaches. Last week, the British government released a report warning Scotland of the ramifications of an independence vote. Most importantly, the UK argues that an independent Scotland would need to renegotiate the thousands of international treaties it is currently party to as a […]

Could Los Angeles be turning its back on blue politics? If special interests have anything to do with it the answer will be no, as unions are pouring millions of dollars into the mayoral and city council races to keep their veto over policy in the country’s second largest city. But despite the best efforts […]

When NBA legend Dennis Rodman returned from his recent visit to North Korea, he suggested that basketball could heal the rift between that country and the US. According to the WSJ, Rodman said that Pres. Obama and new Nork leader Kim Jong Un both like basketball, so “let’s start there.”The success of this diplomacy-by-basketball might be uncertain, […]

The Keystone Pipeline may just have taken another step towards official approval, as the State Department said yesterday that it’s construction wouldn’t have any real effect on climate change. McClatchy Newspapers has the story: The 1,700-mile pipeline would bring oil from the Alberta oil sands in Canada to U.S. refineries on the Gulf Coast. The Congressional […]

New York’s Federal Reserve Bank held a press briefing this week to discuss its quarterly report on household debt and credit, and it contained some sobering numbers on student debt. According to the presentation  by Senior Economist Donghoon Lee, student debt has now reached almost one trillion dollars, nearly tripling between 2004 and 2012. Moreover, excluding borrowers not in repayment, […]