What Will Come Next in Egypt?
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on February 13th, 2011 5:31 am by HL
New EPA Rules Will Create Jobs
Derrick Jackson, Boston Globe
THE REPUBLICAN attack on the Environmental Protection Agency began in earnest Wednesday with Representative Joe Barton of Texas saying that regulations to curb pollutants and limit greenhouse gases will “put the American economy in a straitjacket, costing us millions of jobs.’’Lisa Jackson, the EPA administrator, was ready to combat the job-killing rhetoric. In her opening statement to a House Energy and Commerce Committee subcommittee, she quoted a UMass Amherst study that found that the construction and retrofitting investments in the eastern US under two new…
U.S. Decision to Back Revolt Has Implications
Simon Tisdall, Guardian
Hosni Mubarak has still not grasped how fundamentally the old political order is changing in Egypt and the Arab world – but it seems Barack Obama has.In a forceful statement after the Egyptian president's latest exercise in reality denial, Obama came off the fence following a fortnight of humming and hawing. If the choice is revolution or repression, democratic ideals and values or hard-nosed self-interest, then the US is officially on the side of the angels.
Debunking ObamaCare Litigation Myths
Cory Andrews, DC Examiner
In recent days, much ink has been spilled and a great deal of hot air expended by ObamaCare apologists seeking to defend the constitutionality of the radical overhaul of Americans’ healthcare delivery system.In the process, a lot of misinformation has been disseminated. Here are some of the most common myths being peddled in defense of ObamaCare: