Today's Math behind the News with Larry Shiller

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said they would respond to U.S. military action. Is this logical?

A politician influences his party's stand on social issues. How complicated is that?

Fires wreak havoc at opposite ends of the country

Airline math is more than profit and loss.

Andrea is the first-named storm of the 2007 Atlantic hurricane season, three weeks early.

The U.S. Postal Service says be wordy and save.

The Senate voted to allow consumers to buy prescription medicines abroad as long as U.S. officials certify the safety and effectiveness of such drugs.

Roger Clemens just signed a 1 year, 28 million dollar contract to pitch for the New York Yankees. He will be 45 in August.

Greensburg, Kansas was destroyed by a tornado yesterday. Nine people died and rubble was 20 to 30 feet in places.

A Mexican army of 4,000 defeated a French army of twice its size on May 5th, 1862 at the Battle of Puebla. It picked an interesting day of the year to do so.

The British monarch visited the US for the first time in 16 years.

$1.8 million was stolen from an armored truck yesterday in Hialeah, FL. That's chump change.

Yesterday up to 1 million people demanded a path to citizenship for an estimated 12 million illegal immigrants. Maybe it's time to redefine this as a math problem.

Blind pilot Miles Hilton-Barber flies halfway around the world. What else can blind people do?

A tractor trailer crashes in San Francisco, and hundreds of thousands are affected. Could this be the start of the rise of telecommuting?