Retiree

For the second time in his tenure, President Obama will eulogize the Victims of a shooting. In November 2009—it now seems another era—he gave a small masterpiece of a Speech in honor of the 13 people killed when Army Maj. Nidal Hasan a…

There are two crises facing Social Security. First the program has a gigantic unfunded liability, largely caused by demographics. Second, the program is a very bad deal for younger workers, making them pay record amounts of tax in exchange for c…

There are two crises facing Social Security. First the program has a gigantic unfunded liability, largely caused by demographics. Second, the program is a very bad deal for younger workers, making them pay record amounts of tax in exchange for com…

magazines, Newt Gingrich is pushing for Legislation that will allow insolvent states to be taken off Bailout support and file Bankruptcy, in the process allowing them to renege on Pension and other benefit obligations promises to state workers. An…

ROME (AP) — A 74-year-old Italian Retiree shot dead two neighbors and then his wife Sunday before turning the gun on himself, police said. Jealousy appeared to be behind the rampage in the northern city of Genoa. Carlo Trabona, a retired bri…

What is this? The morning after a shooter on Saturday targeted more than a score of Victims at a Tucson strip shopping center, grievously wounding Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, an Arizona Democrat, and killing six, including a Federal Judge, a nine-yea…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Robert Gates is betting that the nation’s frustration with a ballooning Deficit will allow him to trim the Military’s $50 billion-a-year Health Care system. Gates’ proposal, announced thi…

A reader writes: Which parent gets the extra vote? Kinsley's proposal is modest, so to speak. I vote for Mommy. Another writes: From a cynical, strategic, political point of view - the possibility of explicit repudiation of Retiree Debt is a…