by Richard Eskow | Jun 16, 2010 | Blog
It was a fight to the finish between two heavyweight contenders. In this corner, representing the big Wall Street interests and wearing green trunks the color of money, Representative Barney Frank of Massachusetts. And in this corner, representing common sense and the...
by Dave Johnson | Jun 16, 2010 | Blog
The headline of my local paper today is Obama: Act on clean energy. (But a different headline online - do they do that just to mess up bloggers?) In the speech the President paid homage to President Carter's efforts to change America's energy policies, saying, For...
by Terrance Heath | Jun 16, 2010 | Blog, Economy
In his column concerning last month's jobs number, George Will does a nearly "Noonan-eque" job of spreading disorientation and doubt about what government should do— if anything — about chronic unemployment, delivering a simple-but-subtle...
by Bill Scher | Jun 16, 2010 | Blog
As you can see in today's Progressive Breakfast, interpretations of the President's speech ranged widely. Carbon cap is dead. Or alive. Serious push for other clean energy standards and investments. Or desire to take anything they can get. Pragmatic. Or cop-out. The...
by Bill Scher | Jun 15, 2010 | Blog
Hours before the President will address the nation about the need to end our dependence on fossil fuels, two new studies bolstered the case for the Kerry-Lieberman American Power Act, the comprehensive climate protection and clean energy jobs bill. The Environmental...
by Bill Scher | Jun 15, 2010 | Blog
It is rare for a President to deliver an Oval Office address on a subject that is not related to war. When a President does so, he signals to the nation that the problem at hand is not only of the utmost importance, but requires the nation to come together to fix it....
