The Capital Insider

By many standards, the modern US government can be considered due for a trim. Shrinking the budget deficiet requires doing less and less pe...

Recently two large bond reinsurance companies, Ambac and FGIC , have entered into discussions with regulators to determine if these companie...

Mitt Romney stepped down yesterday, as he thinks that continuing to fight John McCain would damage the party. Wow. What a team player. I...

Idiots will kill you. I know. Its been proven . I am dying. It’s the kind of slow fulminating death that comes from people missing th...

The other day I was in a meeting and began to have some really deep thoughts on how random things are. My apologies, but this diatribe will...

As a government beauracrat, I feel it is my duty to formalize my personal rules on drinking in the following document. No straight liquor be...

Today I threw up on George Bush's front lawn. The story begins with my colleague leaving us to go back to grad school. She was one of ...