The US military has awarded an $80 million contract to a prominent Saudi financier who has been indicted by the US Justice Department for, among other things, financial shenanigans that cost the American taxpayers an estimated 1.7 billion dollars. As a purely coincidental aside: "Pharaon was also an investor in President George W. Bush's first ( Read more... )

An interesting article from Gloria Steinem: "Why Women Are Never Front Runners."I kind of wish we could just have the damned election tomorrow and get it over with. I'm already sick of it. I have nothing against Hillary, and ghod knows I'd love to see a female president get in. I just feel like she'd spend the entire term chopping through ( Read more... )