Mar 03, 2009

Submitted by Jmalmberg: March 2, 2009 – The joke goes like this. “I remember when the biggest comedians in Hollywood were the Marx Brothers. Now we have a President that’s a Marxist Brother.” Now, before you get all over me for being a middle aged white guy with an anti-Obama agenda, I’ve got to tell you that the joke is not mine. It was told by a (Read More)

Feb 23, 2009

Guardian Unlimited: Technology Questions about the internet giant's dominance have been gathering steadily since the revelation that Christine Varney, who is Barack Obama's pick to take over the top antitrust job at the Department of Justice, has already talked about the subject."For me, Microsoft is so last century. They are not the problem," Varney is (Read More)

Feb 18, 2009

Submitted by Jmalmberg: In 1936, President Franklin Roosevelt was not happy with the Supreme Court. The Court had declared a number of the measures he was trying to implement in the name of fighting the Depression unconstitutional. Effectively, the Court was telling Roosevelt that he was meddling in state matters where the federal government didn’ (Read More)

Feb 15, 2009

Gristmill By David Roberts"Is America Ready to Quit Coal?" So asks a must-read story by Melanie Warner in the Sunday New York Times. And so, slowly, fitfully, that possibility -- the possibility not just of cleaning up coal or using less coal but eliminating coal -- creeps its way into the American public consciousness. The hea (Read More)

Feb 12, 2009

Submitted by Jmalmberg: February 11, 2009 – Hidden in the economic stimulus bill moving through Congress is a provision to convert all medical records into electronic form over the next five years. This is a topic that the president has spoken about on numerous occasions and which he claims will save millions of patient dollars. But as it is writt (Read More)

Feb 06, 2009

Submitted by Your Obama Update from blog: That's the title of President Obama's op-ed this morning in the Washington Post, where he makes a forceful argument for the American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan. "What Americans expect from Washington is action that matches the urgency they feel in their daily lives -- action that's swift, bold and wise enough for us to (Read More)

Feb 05, 2009

Submitted by Jmalmberg: February 5, 2009 – One of the key elements of President Obama’s campaign was a promise to turn back the tide of free trade agreements ushered in over the past twenty years. A top priority, but certainly not the only priority, was to renegotiate terms associated with NAFTA. This agreement, along with a variety of others, has (Read More)

Feb 04, 2009

Submitted by Jmalmberg: Unless you are in a coma, you know that Congress and President Obama are trying to pass a bill that they are calling an economic stimulus package. The purpose of that package is to get the economy back on track and get people spending again. After all, the economy runs on consumer confidence. But the bill contains a lot of (Read More)

Feb 04, 2009

Submitted by Jmalmberg: Congress and the White House are poised to spend nearly $1 Trillion of taxpayer money on a so-called stimulus bill. But the bill is filled with pork, which will do little to create jobs, and does virtually nothing to help homeowners deal with toxic mortgages. When members of the House of Representatives tried to insert a “b (Read More)

Jan 28, 2009

guardian.co.uk: The Guardian newspaper: Editorials & reply A new phrase has rolled off the production line of foreign policy analysts: responsible sovereignty. In a world where the threats are transnational - climate change, terrorism, nuclear proliferation, the banking crisis - states not only have a responsibility to their own citizens, but to their neighbours and to the internat (Read More)

Jan 28, 2009

Submitted by Jmalmberg: January 27, 2009 – There are a number of differences between what President Obama wants included in his economic stimulus plan and what Republican leaders in the House and Senate want to see included. Some of the most contested provisions of the legislation are centered on changes to tax credits that actually provide refund (Read More)

Jan 17, 2009

Submitted by Jmalmberg: January 16, 2009 – President-elect Obama’s incoming Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel, told a group of business and economic executives that “you never want to let a serious crisis go to waste.” The comments were made to the Wall Street Journal’s CEO Conference in November but have gone relatively unreported by the media. Althou (Read More)

Jan 16, 2009

Submitted by Jmalmberg: January 15, 2009 – The incoming Obama administration has been lobbying Congress hard to get them to release the second half of the already authorized $700 Billion bailout bill passed last year. So far, $350 Billion of that money has already been spent; the vast majority of it going to banks. Yet there is little evidence tha (Read More)

Jan 06, 2009

guardian.co.uk Science The world is full of terrible things and it may seem absurd to be shocked by the state of science teaching more than by war and famine or any of the more obvious candidates. But I was more shocked by the report showing that a significant minority of British science teachers can't see anything much wrong with creationism tha (Read More)

Dec 24, 2008

Submitted by Jmalmberg: December 23, 2008 – After all of the financial turmoil of the past year, you might think that the incoming president would appoint someone to the Securities and Exchange Commission that has some experience in confronting large corporations and winning. But his choice, Mary Shapiro, doesn’t have verifiable credentials in thi (Read More)

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