Lawmakers face more work if they want to pay for health reform. According to the latest analysis by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation, the House health bill fails two key budget tests.

The tired old analogy of Iraq as the new Vietnam now not only looks like hyperbole, but appears to be targeted at the wrong war, the one many of those, myself included, had happily forgotten. Thousands of years of history seem to have taught the Americans and the British nothing, as they find themselves almost hopelessly bogged down in Afghanistan.

Did you enjoy reading of The Knife of Never Letting Go? This was Patrick Ness' first book written for young adults. It was published last year and went on to win the Guardian Children's Book Prize (2008). It is a very good (if sometimes confronting) science fiction story, with a lot of thought-provoking stuff.

Seeming a rather self-contained sort onstage, as perhaps might befit his sombre and contemplative music, Adrian Crowley has not opted for much audience interaction or humour in any show that I had seen him play prior to last Saturday night.

Stewart's Folly is an interesting forgotten roadside attraction from the 1970s also known as the Round House of Logan, Ohio. It is located on the outskirts of town as you are entering into Logan from the west along County Road 33A. I came across the mysterious structure this winter while doing a HAER documentation on a bridge in the area.

Since the apex of the economic crisis last year, American companies have been buried in an avalanche of corporate governance initiatives designed to increase the power of fund managers to dictate corporate policies to boards of directors. Unfortunately, few, if any, of the proposals focus on what must be the overriding objective of corporate governance -- encouraging long-term economic growth: the type of growth that is achieved without risking the environment or the financial system; the type of growth that creates and maintains full employment; the type of growth that creates affordable housing, healthcare and education for all.

In our forthcoming The Review of Economics and Statistics paper: Financial Integration, Investment, and Economic Growth. Evidence from Two Eras of Financial Globalization, we turn to the economic history of the first era of financial globalization (1880-1914) for new insights into whether international financial integration boosts economic growth.

I have health insurance that I pay for myself " more than $400 a month for an individual policy ($1,500 deductible per occurrence). I severely injured my left knee in December during a blizzard. It was so painful that I couldn't walk. I had surgery Jan. 27. My insurance company -- Golden Rule, a division of United Healthcare -- has denied covering the surgery, claiming a "pre-existing condition" because I have arthritis.

With a slew of major companies reporting earnings so far, it's clear that expectations were severely skewed to the negative. Once again, Wall Street analysts overshot - this time to the downside.

Joe Trippi, who has been working secretly for Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney (NY-14) in her primary challenge to Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand for more than a month, posted an odd "apology" for his deception (which occurred here, at Huffington Post and with several reporters) on his website yesterday.

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