By Denis Campbell
The USA’s ‘Cash for Clunkers’ was just extended a new $2 billion dollar funding lifeline. It is such a simple programme doing so much good on so many levels, we wondered if schemes like it could boost the UK and global economy? Between zombie banks, MP Expenses and the pound getting pounded, we [...]

by Denis Campbell
It’s easy to take the sure open shot on a basketball court or football pitch. Bloggers of all stripes do the ‘outrage’ thing very well. We can call an opponent out, take the Mick out of public gaffes, exploit weaknesses (indeed, there are enough of them) and generally be cynical or negative.
What’s missing [...]

 
And What Obama and the Rest of Us Must Do
by Robert Reich
I’ved poked around Washington today, talking with friends on the Hill who confirm the worst: Big Pharma and Big Insurance are gaining ground in their campaign to kill the public option in the emerging health care bill.
You know why, of course. They don’t want [...]

 
by Denis Campbell
United Airlines flight 921 was the outbound on 21 May. The crew was London-based, cheerful, helpful and the flight comfortably uneventful. UA 922 on 29 May was the return leg led by a US-based crew: surly, arrogant, griping, worrying aloud about job losses, lacking in decorum, full of silly and rigid rules, ridiculously [...]

Reprise from spring 2008 - When The King of Beers became Belgian owned, we all paused…
Like Labatts and Brahma Beer before her, Stellaaaa’s! (Artois that is) parent company In-Bev got thirsty and gulped down St. Louis, Missouri based Budweiser Beer in one chug for a cool $52 billion dollars. Ouch.
Long the butt of Dutch jokes [...]

By Denis Campbell
No one chooses their middle name, it’s bestowed by (hopefully sober at the time) parents. The only time anyone even hears it spoken aloud is to the guffaws of fellow classmates during high school graduation. History is working against Barack Hussein Obama and creating an off-the-silly-meter story.
There is no requirement he say ‘it.’ [...]

 
By Denis Campbell
37 Days. I’ve watched folks worry about the state of Obama’s campaign. He has suffered withering criticism and attacks for 20-months from the right and a Greek chorus of Cassandras on the left telling him to be more aggressive and take the fight more strongly to John McCain. 
11 times in the debate he [...]

by Denis Campbell
“What will be the next thing that challenges us? That makes us work harder and go farther? You know, when smallpox was eradicated, it was considered the single greatest humanitarian achievement of this century. Surely, we can do it again. As we did in the time when our eyes looked towards the heavens, [...]

The 1980s mantra “Greed is Good” is coming home to roost as 9-figure salaried managers across Wall Street are waking up this morning to the realisation that the good times may be over, their days numbered and the game, if not over, is in the bottom of the 9th with their team down by 11-runs.
Their [...]

Country first, ha(!), this was pure red meat GOP partisanship at its best as hitwoman Governor Sarah Palin gave a speech thin on specifics but loaded in every sense of the word with snarky attacks on Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
In the diversity challenged (read lily-white) Excel Centre, the red meat thrown up by Huckabee, [...]