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Quote Of The Day: Oil "Just Too Hard To Find"
In a story about fluctuating oil prices, The New York Times quotes Carrizo Oil and Gas CEO Chip Johnson: I can’t see oil getting cheap again ever. It’s just too hard to find, and too many people want to use it. That's the bottom line. If we want an energy policy to...
A Car Mechanic's Plea For A Health Care Fix
For David White, a small business owner in Bar Harbor, Maine, the health care crisis is doubly personal. For one thing, he was proud of being able to cover the full cost of health insurance premiums for his employees at MDI Imported car repair service. But in 2002—a...
First Iraq, Now Health Care. AP's McCain Bias Continues.
Over the weekend, Talking Points Memo called out the Associated Press for "demonstrably false reporting" in support of McCain campaign talking points about Iraq. Now the bias appears to extend to health care. Yesterday, the AP's analysis of McCain's health care plan...
What's Missing from the Nuclear Power Debate?
Ah, you optimistic soul. Did you really think the nuclear power debate died after Three Mile Island brought the reality of its dangers home to insurers, investors and utility companies? Think again. As both the rhetoric and the reality of global warming heat up in the...
McCain's Croc of Hooey
Marc Ambinder at theatlantic.com notes that Crocs (which are probably what your children are wearing right this minute) seem to be a perennial favorite when GOP presidential candidates come to Colorado and need to call out a Great American Company: President Bush, on...
Where McCain's Change Is Bigger Than Obama's
As Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama both plan to engage each other on the economy this week, this presents an opportunity for reporters and voters to focus on one of the biggest contrasts between them: health care. As Paul Krugman observes today, "[health insurnace]...
Health Care For America Now!
On Tuesday, July 8, a new campaign will be launched – for Health Care for America Now! – at press conferences in Washington and 55 other cities and towns. We at the Campaign for America’s Future are proud to play a leadership role in launching this much-needed...
All In The Same Sinking Boat
A disturbing but sadly predictable jobs report was released today by the Department of Labor: 62,000 jobs lost in June, 438,000 jobs lost during the past 6 months. This is no limited recession. The New York Times observed that: "June’s job losses affected a range of...
Hundreds Tell Fox: "Stop The Attacks"
"Dear FOX News, Here's a Fourth of July gift for you, from an Obama supporter and patriotic American," begins a note from Anthony in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. "This year my son and I plan to use window paints to fill our big picture window with the American flag. Please...
McCain's Flea-Market Economy
George W. Bush's solution to our nation's economic mess—that his failed policies helped create—is to applaud people who must work three jobs to make ends meet. Sen. John McCain colors his solution to working families' financial struggles with similar crayons: He...
