Obama campaigned on the promise of change. As the health care bill has now blown it’s August and December deadlines the media is decrying the expected failure of the public option, criticizing the healthcare mandate, and claiming that the Commander in Chief has broken his promise…but is the condemnation premature? The Obama administration did not [...]
Simon Maloy For Media Matters: President Obama never had a chance … It didn’t matter what decision he came to regarding troop levels in Afghanistan, or what he said about the ongoing conflict there, because Fox News and the rest of the conservative media had already reached two conclusions. First, he took too long. Second, [...]
As I listened and digested the words of General McChrystal and Ambassador Eikenberry last week at their side-by-side brother-to-brother session in Congress, my mind drifted back to a time when their voices expressed public frustration and stark contrasts. Turns out it was only two months ago, which tells me my short term memory is currently [...]
Green Building Pro has released a brand new Climate Scoreboard, helping us to visualize the debate currently unfolding from Copenhagen’s Climate Summit. We would like to share it with our subscribers here, but please take a stop by their green blog for more green reading.
Sea level rise maps and the homeland security terror alert…What do they have in common? An interest in saving the world or industry spending? I believe the threat of terrorism and climate change are both serious and real. In fact I work for the Department of Homeland Security and in the Green Building sector. I also [...]
The year was 1983, and it shares more in common with 2009 than one could imagine. The first and most glaring similarity is 10.2% unemployment, a high-water mark for this ‘great recession’ we are currently in the vast middle of. Without making this so much of a doom and gloom narrative of our ailing economy, [...]
One thing that has remained true since the inception of this republic: Our leaders do not trust the populace. It has been that way since the beginning. Even a quick overview of The Federalist Papers, which are a collection of 3 of the Founders’ arguments in favor of the Constitution, reveals that our whole system [...]
President Obama will address the nation this evening from West Point Military Academy. He will announce an escalation of 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan but also frame for the American people a timetable for a later withdrawal of all forces. The balance beam politics of this speech will continue what is a difficult week for [...]
