John P Flood

Hating the Tea Party for being so insistent and single-minded about cutting spending is like hating a fire hall siren for calling attention to a potentially devastating blaze. And blaming the S&P downgrade on Tea Party-backed House Republicans makes about as much sense as blaming a raging fire on the 911 dispatcher. Worse than pointing fingers at the Tea Partiers, however, is when a government official demands that they be frozen out. Speaking on MSNBC the day S&P lowered its credit rating on US debt from AAA to AA+, Massachusetts Senator John Kerry called on the media to blackball the Tea Party and its message.

Sure, the extremist wing of the GOP has been saying crazy things about climate for a while (see Rep. Shimkus: “Man will not destroy this Earth. This Earth will not be destroyed by a flood”). But the anti-science wing is now in charge (see John Boehner says on ABC: “The idea that carbon dioxide is [...]

WASHINGTON -- Minutes before House Speaker John Boehner delivered a prime-time address in which he framed his latest deficit-reduction deal as a silver bullet for the nation's economic uncertainty, reports surfaced that the plan being crafted by the Ohio Republican would potentially lead to a downgrading of the United State's AAA credit rating.

John P. Wheeler III, a former Pentagon official and the first chairman of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, "died as a result of blunt force trauma after being assaulted," the Delaware medical examiner's office said Friday.

After John Kennedy was shot in downtown Dallas on November 22, 1963, Johnny Calvin Brewer was listening to the radio while working behind the cash register at Hardy's Shoe Store on West Jefferson Avenue in Oak Cliff. At around 1:15 p.m., the radio broadcaster announced that another gunshot had been fired, this time at Officer J.D.Tippit, who had stopped a man who fit the assassin's description on West 10th Street, not far from Hardy's

… 53.33 after the software maker reported a weaker-than-expected outlook. Reacting to Red Hat's report, J. P . Morgan John DiFucci wrote: "We continue to remain cautious on global IT spending, especially in the coming months. That said …

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J. P . Morgan Chase & Co. (JPM) priced $1 billion in commercial mortgage-backed ..... risk of being locked into the securities for the long term, analysts said. J. P . Morgan lowered yields by 5 basis points on the two- to seven-year senior …

J. P . Morgan Chase & Co. (JPM) has formed a new asset management unit that will ..... management businesses, the report said. Seth Bernstein, former head of J. P . Morgan's global fixed income and currency division, will run the new unit …

Commerce Secretary John Bryson has resigned, after being involved in a pair of bizarre car accidents earlier this month upon suffering what he said was …

U.S. Senator John Kerry and Brice Lalonde, the French-born coordinator of the United Nations Rio + 20 summit conference on sustainable development …

… ulnar collateral ligament in his right elbow Thursday. He will be out at least a year. The procedure, commonly known as Tommy John surgery, was performed by Dr. James Andrews in Gulf Breeze, Florida. Beachy left Saturday's game against the Orioles after …

… could take an even-deeper hit, he said. "If the S& P [500 stock index] rolls over, you could see $2 or ..... any reading below 50 indicates contraction. Write to John Biers at john .biers@dowjones.com. Copyright © 2012 Dow Jones …