How much does it cost to have fun in Dungeons & Dragons Online’s free-to-play world? The catacomb is dank, decrepit. I’m creeping towards gold and glory. My party — friends whose skills complement my own — have toiled through a labyrinth of twisted passageways for hours in search of a magical artifact. After battling hordes [...]
New York Democratic Rep. Anthony Weiner is plainly fired up and ready to go. In a losing battle to secure passage of a bill to fund health care and compensation for ill 9/11 rescue workers, he unleashed a tirade against what he called unprincipled GOP opponents of the measure. The House voted down the bill, which would have provided $3.2 [...]
Twenty-one years ago, Li Lu was a student leader of the Tiananmen Square protests. Now a hedge-fund manager, he is in line to become a successor to Warren Buffett at Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Mr. Li, 44 years old, has emerged as a leading candidate to run a chunk of Berkshire’s $100 billion portfolio, stemming from a [...]
Throughout his presidential campaign, then-candidate Barack Obama promised the American people: “If you’re a family that’s making $250,000 a year or less, you will see no increase in your taxes.” After he became President, Barack Obama reiterated that pledge, promising the American people in hisSeptember 9th health care press conference: “The middle-class will realize greater security, [...]
The aim of releasing thousands of classified documents on the Afghanistan war on the WikiLeaks Web site was apparently to undermine American public support for the war. The founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, said he wanted the world to see the “true nature of the war” and equated the WikiLeaks Afghanistan archive with the release of [...]
PHOENIX – A federal judge dealt a serious rebuke to Arizona’simmigration law on Wednesday when she put most of the crackdown on hold just hours before it was to take effect. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton sets up a lengthy legal battle as Arizona fights to enact the nation’s toughest-in-the-nation law. Republican Gov. Jan Brewer said [...]
WASHINGTON – The House prepared Tuesday to send President Barack Obama $33 billion to pay for his troop surge in Afghanistan, unmoved by the leaking of tens of thousands of classified military documents that portray a war effort beset by Afghan shortcomings. From Obama on down, the disclosure of the documents was condemned anew by [...]
——————— You may not agree with a lot of what he says but this guy is really funny. More importantly, what he talks about is the heart of today’s capitalism. Money is only an idea, and our world is held by “belief”. That is why sometimes you hear the term “House of cards” because our [...]
ADVOCATING democracy in a single-party, authoritarian state would seem to be a fool’s errand. Wei Jingsheng, one of China’s most ardent pro-democracy dissidents, spent over a decade in jail for demanding multiparty elections. Last year, the writer Liu Xiaobo was given an 11-year sentence after he wrote a manifesto calling for an end to the Chinese Communist Party’s [...]