Well, the boys and girls in Congress are up at it again - pointing the finger at AIG executives for exercising their one thing truly driving the business - self-serving greed.  Greed is not good - greed and the search for the quick and easy buck is what has led to the debacle of the worldwide financial structure.

The Consumer Price Index for February shows no change from the prior month, which would be great news if the CPI was a survey of all lifestyles within the country, but it isn’t. The CPI is only applicable for urban dwellers.

Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them. Have you ever wondered why, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, we have deficits? Have you ever wondered why, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, we have inflation and high taxes?

The White House continues its outward look with President Bush’s veto of the 5-year, $23 billion Water Resources Development Act.

The United States Congress wanted intervention in a racially-motivated beating doled out by six students to one. Yet, none of them were calling for the U.S. Attorney General to file federal hate crime charges against the six - they wanted the six exonerated because they were black and the victim white.

If the victim had died, this would be called a lynching.

Incentives will not change our fossil-fuel guzzling habits.