Achenblog: November 7, 2010 - November 13, 2010

Deficit blues

Earlier this year, I typed up a piece on the national debt. The problem, I said, was not that the country lacks resources to deal with the debt problem. It lacks the political will: Under any likely scenario, the...

By Joel Achenbach  | November 11, 2010; 10:41 AM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (449)
 
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Oil spill: The banality of catastrophe [updated]

Sat through a long and fascinating Presidential Oil Spill Commission hearing yesterday in which one of the great lions of the bar, Fred Bartlit, a character out of a Tom Wolfe novel (booming voice, barrel chest, military bearing, professional resume...

By Joel Achenbach  | November 9, 2010; 7:11 AM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (302)
 
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