Citibank is helping the US catch up to the rest of the world with free, easy wire transfers.

Mike Bloomberg says we’re electing people to Congress who “can’t read” and “don’t have passports.”

The US has always outspent our G7 brethren on healthcare but the divergence has skyrocketed over the last three decades.

The Feds famously got notorious mobster Al Capone on tax evasion charges. Will WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange be done in by sex crimes?

Should blogs and other online forums ban anonymous comments?

President Obama’s plan to free federal employee pay is getting praised by Republicans but is wildly unpopular among progressive activists.

Sarah Palin has taken to her Facebook page to raise “Serious Questions about the Obama Administration’s Incompetence in the WikiLeaks Fiasco.” They’re more interesting than I’d expected.

The choice is between a world in which officials can share information and carry out reasoned debates with one another and a world in which nothing can be written down.

“Cyber Monday” is a myth created by a marketing company.

President Obama proposes freezing federal civilian salaries for the next two years, saving billions in anticipated spending.

The two English language newspapers who have been Julian Assange’s accomplices in disseminating stolen secrets defend themselves.

After days of hype, National Opt-Out Day fizzled. It’s a classic collective action problem.

Shocking Headline Of The Day: “Willie Nelson charged with pot possession in Texas.”

The American copyright system is broken. Cory Doctorow offers some useful suggestions for fixing it.

Duke economist Dan Ariely argues that the Western notion of gift giving is irrational.

Somali-born teenager plotted to carry out a car bomb attack at a crowded Christmas tree lighting ceremony in downtown Portland on Friday, but the bomb turned out to be a dud supplied by undercover agents as part of a sting.

In an effort to combat illegal file sharing, the US Department of Homeland Security is seizing domain names.

The over-hyping of President Obama’s lip getting cut while playing basketball is a bit much.

The Chevy Volt’s $33,000 price tag makes its modest fuel savings hard to justify.

David Broder, three weeks after the election, explains “What Murkowski’s write-in win says about the electorate.”

Tom DeLay is a sleazebag and has been found guilty by an Austin jury for skirting the law. But it may in fact be a miscarriage of justice despite the victim being as unsympathetic as it gets.

President Obama is likely join the ranks of the unemployed come noon on January 20, 2013 if a Fed forecast is right.

Gate Rape: Sexual groping of one’s genitalia at airport security by agents after a traveler refuses full body x-ray search.

Looking to avoid airport body scanners? You might not be able to do it on any form of public transit if Janet Napolitano gets her way.

Gel shoe inserts are not permitted on airplanes, so save yourself the hassle and put your inserts in your checked baggage — that’s right, inserts are not even allowed in your carry-on. Shoes constructed with gel heels are allowed but like all other shoes, must be removed and screened.

Tonight’s topics: Escalation on the Korean peninsula, the continued woes of the eurozone, and goodness knows what else.

“Ugly Betty” actor Michael Brea killed his mother with a samurai sword while screaming Bible passages.

Airline food sucks. Mostly, it’s the food. But it’s also the altitute.

The People In Charge telling us that something is Necessary For Our Own Good makes a large number of people accepting of the inconvenience, no matter how asinine or unsupported by evidence.

Economist Bryan Caplan argues that our educational system does not prepare our children for the modern economy.

As bicycle advocates have been getting new lanes and other concessions in major cities across the country, a minor backlash has formed in reaction.

It’s not hypocritical or racist to support an aggressive pursuit of terrorists while getting outraged over abuses of Americans’ liberties.

Richard Quinn, a business professor at the University of Central Florida, got suspicious after a historically high grade distribution on the midterm for his capstone course and decided to scare his students.

Thomas Ricks laments that the combination of the all-volunteer military and lower top marginal rates mean that the wealthy have “checked out of America and moved into physical and mental gated communities.” To solve this problem, he proposed bringing back the draft.

NYU’s Jay Rosen: “On Fox, the news exists in order to generate controversy. Controversy exists in order to generate resentment. And the resentment is what generates ratings.”

federal judge on Saturday ordered the website Gawker to pull down unauthorized excerpts from Sarah Palin’s forthcoming book, “America By Heart.”

A retired special education teacher was left humiliated, crying and covered with his own urine after an enhanced pat-down by TSA officers.

NATO-Russia cooperation on missile defense is a welcome step forward.

“It is not comfortable to come to work knowing full well that my hands will be feeling another man’s private parts, their butt, their inner thigh. Even worse is having to try and feel inside the flab rolls of obese passengers and we seem to get a lot of obese passengers!”

Ron Paul has introduced a law (the “American Traveler Dignity Act”) that would punish TSA agents for groping and x-raying Americans.

Cathy Bossi, a U.S. Airways stewardess and cancer survivor, was forced to show her breast implants to TSA agents when her prosthetic implants triggered alarm during a pat-down.

The long awaited new strategic concept, launching what has been termed “NATO 3.0,” has been published under the banner “Active Engagement, Modern Defense.”

The Denver Post’s Craig Walker has captured this image of a TSA agent performing an “enhanced pat down.”

Virginian Republicans have heard of George Allen and not Eric Cantor, Ken Cuccinelli, Bill Bolling, Tom Davis, or Bob Marshall.

Only 46 percent of Americans know that Republicans will have a majority only in the House when the new Congress convenes in January.

Because no one should live in a world where Han didn’t shoot first.

It’s quite possible that the delays spawned by airline security measures are killing more people than they’re saving.