(Washington, D.C. Exclusive to eGrumps.) Defense Secretary Gates and President Obama announced a savings of about Eight Billion Dollars ($8,000,000,000) by eliminating, or reducing, certain programs and weapons systems which the Pentagon, but not the Administration, feels are important to the security of the United States.  Among the programs affected were missile defense programs, helicopters, fighter [...]

Question: Should the plural of bonus be boni, “i” being the plural of “us” in Latin? Guess not. Never heard of a company awarding boni to its employees. Maybe if the companies called it boni, it would not be so controversial since no one would know what was meant, except for we Latin scholars, and [...]

You can lead a man to Congress, but you can’t make him think. If Eve had lived today, she would have looked around for a smaller leaf. Money talks, it says “goodbye.” Don’t ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up. It would have helped a lot if the [...]