Archive for August, 2011
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Wednesday, August 31st, 2011What Price Life? By MAUREEN DOWD Published: August 30, 2011 , New York Times So the big, bad storm huffed and puffed and didn’t blow all the houses in. Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times Reversing Katrina, on the sixth anniversary of that shameful episode in American history, the response to Irene was more powerful [...]
Anti-science party
Tuesday, August 30th, 2011Republicans Against Science By PAUL KRUGMAN Published: August 28, 2011 Jon Huntsman Jr., a former Utah governor and ambassador to China, isn’t a serious contender for the Republican presidential nomination. And that’s too bad, because Mr. Hunstman has been willing to say the unsayable about the G.O.P. — namely, that it is becoming the [...]
Anti-science is anti-jobs
Tuesday, August 30th, 2011Posted: 29 Aug 2011 09:44 AM PDT Climate Progress Now, we don’t know who will win next year’s presidential election. But the odds are that one of these years the world’s greatest nation will find itself ruled by a party that is aggressively anti-science, indeed anti-knowledge. And, in a time of severe challenges — environmental, [...]
Grossman’s small business program ( Boston Globe)
Tuesday, August 30th, 2011TREASURER Steve Grossman’s Small Business Banking Partnership is a smart way to invest more capital into the Massachusetts economy at minimal, if any, cost to the taxpayer. It’s so smart that the Legislature should look for ways to make it permanent – while also putting guidelines in place to protect it from any bias or [...]
An extremist for justice
Monday, August 29th, 2011Let’s honor the real Dr. King, ‘an extremist for love’ By E.J. Dionne Jr., Published: August 28, Washington Post We tend to honor the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. we want to honor, not the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. who actually existed. We forget the King who at the time of his ministry was labeled [...]
Frank Bellotti and corporate campaign spending
Friday, August 26th, 2011Over the Cliff By LINDA GREENHOUSE, New York Times I fell into a Supreme Court time warp the other day. Preparing to teach a seminar this fall on the court under Chief Justice Warren E. Burger — the court of the 1970s to mid-’80s — I picked up for the first time in many years [...]
Another Affordable Care Act benefit
Thursday, August 18th, 2011New Affordable Care Act proposal to help consumers better understand and compare benefits and coverage Posted by Phil Sweeney To often government rules and regulations are encrusted in confusing technical nomenclature and syntactical phraseology. Today, the U.S. Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and the Treasury proposed new rules under the Affordable Care Act [...]
Unrequited Love
Thursday, August 18th, 2011The GOP’s summer of discontent By E.J. Dionne Jr., Published: August 17, Washington Post Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign is a cross between the Little Engine That Could and the big chain store fending off attacks from upstart rivals. Romney gets little love from his fellow Republicans. He’s always confronting rumors spread by people who ought to [...]
Manchurian Candidate ?
Wednesday, August 17th, 2011The sad facts behind Rick Perry’s Texas miracle By Harold Meyerson, Published: August 16, Washington Post Rick Perry’s Texas is Ross Perot’s Mexico come north. Through a range of enticements we more commonly associate with Third World nations — low wages, no benefits, high rates of poverty, scant taxes, few regulations and generous corporate subsidies — [...]
Who is making the sacrifices?
Tuesday, August 16th, 2011Stop Coddling the Super-Rich By WARREN E. BUFFETT Published: August 14, 2011 , New York Times Related in Opinion Editorial: The Truth About Taxes (August 7, 2011) OUR leaders have asked for “shared sacrifice.” But when they did the asking, they spared me. I checked with my mega-rich friends to learn what pain [...]
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