Have Gays Found Their Place in the GOP?
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on February 26th, 2010 5:31 am by HL
Have Gays Found Their Place in the GOP?
Brian Montopoli, CBS News
Obama is Liked, But He Isn’t Feared
Rupert Cornwell, The Independent
What went wrong? In January 2009, Barack Obama took power in a nation that overwhelmingly yearned for him to succeed. He was a fresh face, eloquent, thoughtful, plainly intelligent. On Capitol Hill, his party had massive majorities. All of that remains true. Yet, just 13 months later, America is in about as foul a mood as when George W. Bush reached his nadir. Most parties that win the White House lose seats at the next mid-term elections. This November though, Democrats are bracing for a wipe-out that could conceivably see them lose control of both House and Senate, as the independent voters…
How Obama Screwed Volcker
Charles Gasparino, The Daily Beast
Enter your email address:Enter the recipients' email addresses, separated by commas:Message: AP Photos The president needed the gravitas of the former Fed chairman to sell his bank reform to Wall Street. And when the “Volcker Rule” didn’t fly, Obama sold him out.Barack Obama owes Paul Volcker a lot, but he apparently owes the fat cats on Wall Street even more. That’s the only reasonable conclusion that can be made from the president’s timely and, in some ways, bizarre about-face on the former…
Let’s Be Sure of Climate Change Facts First
Roddy Campbell, Prospect
An automatic weather station being installed on Butler Island, AntarcticaThe belief that man is warming the Earth's climate via greenhouse gas emissions is supported by evidence showing a modest increase in global temperatures over recent decades. But what is the scale of these increases, and are they in any way abnormal? To find out, we need an accurate record over a long period. This is where the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit (CRU) comes in, and why the “climategate”� scandal over its leaked emails matters so much.The CRU is one of the world's…