We may have avoided default – for now. But there’s another political monster we’ve tried to postpone that’s fed up with our recalcitrance. By this, of course, we mean Mexico’s drug war.

There’s not just an out-of-control conflict on our border. There’s also the very much related battle of gun lobbyists against the Obama administration, which is grappling with a growing gun-running scandal of its own.

The National Rifle Association has filed suit against the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, following new regulations requiring gun stores in border states to report multiple...

Mac OS X Lion merges some aspects of iOS with the Mac environment, like the new Launchpad feature for launching apps.

OSX Lion has already begun to blur the lines between Mac and iOS. But in a note to investors today first reported by Barron’s, a Jefferies & Co. analyst believes the two will completely merge by 2012.

How will this be accomplished? On the hardware end, analyst Peter Misek posits that Apple could use the A6 quad-core processor to unify its mobile and computing devices.

“We believe Apple is ready to start sampling the A6 quad-core app processor and will be the first to such m...