David Post

Forty years ago, I won what became my family’s first "Dodo of the Year" award. Instead of calling me ...

How rich is Mitt Romney compared to other presidents? His most recent tax return proves that he's worth a cool quarter billion. So, where would that rank? He’d be behind only President George Washington. But unlike Washington, Romney didn’t inherit his wealth. He earned it.

The cup magician, a small business job creator, has a tax question. How much tax should he pay on the money in his hat? Is it earned income with a possible 35-percent rate? Or can an imaginative tax guru figure a way to characterize this process as investment income, perhaps as a dividend from the capital investment in the cups and sponge ball, resulting in the lower 15-percent rate?

Since Franklin Roosevelt was president, Republicans and Democrats have created diametrically opposite methods for choosing their presidential nominees.

2011 was so much fun in Congress. Will 2012 offer the same? The House of Representatives convened on Tuesday, January 17th, and the Senate will return next week. The fun hasn’t quite started yet, but it will and it will be loud.

Superman! Faster than a speeding bullet! More powerful than a locomotive! Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound ...

“A house divided against itself cannot long endure,” Abraham Lincoln so eloquently said. More than ever, since then, the country ...

Answer my history question and get a treat. Or miss it and get a treat. But learn a little along ...

Tax reform is like birthdays. They come around every year with the promises of money and gifts. The current flavor ...

Why is age 65 the retirement age?

Legend has it that when Otto von Bismarck, Chancellor of Germany in the ...

Are we in a double dip recession?

Economists hedge their bets using percentage. Most suggest a 30 percent chance we ...

The Top 10 list of why the debt ceiling debate was a big joke (and this is no joke):

1. The ...

Does the government spend too much? Probably.

Are taxes too low? Probably.

Is there an easy or quick fix? Absolutely ...

By the 1980s, the U.S. and the Soviet Union together had amassed 25,000 nuclear warheads aimed at each other. Carl Sagan, the people’s scientist, compared it to two people standing in a room the size of a football field filled up to their chins with gasoline, each holding 10,000 matches and each threatening to light one. Today, the Debt Ceiling debate is MAD.