congressional hearings

A Financial Crisis Solution That Doesn't Solve the Problem

To say that what Congress did on Friday was disappointing would be an understatement. What Congress did was, and remains, downright dangerous. A huge sum of money has been thrown in the direction of...

Dems and the shifting political winds

Politico claims that "Dems [are] Searching Their Souls on Drilling".Poppycock.They’re searching the polls, not their souls, and they aren’t happy with what they find juxtaposed with their...

Q&A with Dan Levitt – Ed Barrow: The Bulldog Who Built the Yankees' First Dynasty

A longtime member of the Society for American Baseball Research, Daniel R. Levitt has written three guest columns for Baseball Analysts. I invited Dan after he and Mark Armour co-authored Paths to...

Syria Questions Integrity of Our Administration

Robin Wright discusses the aftermath of the September 6 bombing of a Syrian facility by Israel. Our argument:A video taken inside a secret Syrian facility last summer convinced the Israeli...

Today's Must Read

On the eve of congressional hearings, the White House retreats from the contractor-friendly anti-fraud loophole it sneaked into a proposed rule change.... (...)

Be a Pig! Be a Pig!

Citizens Against Government Waste is out with its annual "Congressional Pig Book" today. Here's the lowdown on this past year's pork:In fiscal year 2008, Congress stuffed 11,610 projects (the second...

Facing Clemens: What happens now?

[editor's note, by Al] As noted when I wrote my review of Jonathan Mayo's book earlier this week, I promised him a chance to post some comments on how he feels after the revelations about Clemens....

Facing the Facts on Clemens

A lot has changed since I started writing my first book, “Facing Clemens.” What was meant to be a fairly cut and dry baseball book about what it’s like for a hitter to try and ply their craft against...

Congress - stay the hell out of sports!

First we have a John McCain driven bill to put boxing under federal control. Then we have Henry Waxman and his merry band of inquisitors wasting the taxpayer’s time and money alternately...

Strategies for Surviving and Thriving in Challenging Times

Strategic Action #3 for Surviving and Thriving: Adapt Your Life to Web 2.0 (Part 2) The Role of Collective Intelligence Experts own the world. No other classification of human mental output holds...