Richard Cordray is now the head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. That’s a big deal.The CFPB was officially formed over two years ago (on July 21, 2011), but Senate Republicans blocked Cordray’s nomination, well, because they don’t like the CFPB.It was the brainchild of ...
It’s that time again. This is my third annual homage to the Pittsburgh Pirates.I’m hoping it’s not me who jinxed them two years in a row. My 2011 tribute appeared here on July 25. The Pirates were tied for first place in the National League Central Division that day. Soon after, “The ...
On this date in 1890, the Uniontown Evening Standard carried an item about the “World’s Four Richest Men.”All of those men would be small potatoes today.The president of the Standard Oil Trust, John D. Rockefeller, topped the list. He was worth $135 million.The Rothschild family had an ...
When General Motors stopped making the Oldsmobile in 2004, it left behind a legacy of one of America’s greatest manufacturers.Ransom E. Olds founded the company in 1897, and, during its 107-year history, 35.2 million cars carried his name.So popular was the Oldsmobile, that a song was written ...
 Darrell Issa is having a mighty tough time these days.The seven term U.S. Rep. from San Diego had been using his position as the Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform to create salacious headlines and a number of high-profile investigations. His favorite target? ...
Centuries from now, archaeologists will discover that long-extinct species that had been so adept at shooting itself in the foot, it nearly became a monoped. There were the Cro-Magnons, Neanderthals – then the Republicans.They’d devolved from being hunters and gatherers to blatherers. A ...