Gore’s Dire Weather Warning
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on September 7th, 2011 4:31 am by HL
Gore’s Dire Weather Warning
Christopher Dickey, The Daily Beast
What's left of Tropical Storm Lee is pouring water onto the long-suffering cities and towns of the Gulf coast; Hurricane Katia is moving unpredictably but menacingly toward the American mainland. What's next? When Newsweek looked at the looming threat of massive natural disasters and their impact on American security and society in “The Next 9/11,” we emailed former vice president and Nobel laureate Al Gore several questions about the risks ahead. These are his responses:Is climate change a national security issue? What would be some examples?
Eurozone’s Crisis Is Britain’s Opportunity
My Plan to Turn Around the U.S. Economy
Mitt Romney, USA Today
Barack Obama has had his turn at fixing the American economy. Millions of unemployed Americans can judge by their own experiences what he has done and failed to do.Roughly half of our columns come from our Board of Contributors, a group whose interests range from education to religion to sports to the economy. Their charge is to chronicle American culture by telling the stories, large and small, that collectively make us what we are.
The Golden State Is Crumbling
Joel Kotkin, New Geography
The recent announcement that California's unemployment again nudged up to 12 percent—second worst in the nation behind its evil twin, Nevada—should have come as a surprise but frankly did not. From the beginning of the recession, the Golden State has been stuck bringing up a humbled nation's rear and seems mired in that less-than-illustrious position.What has happened to my adopted home state of over last decade is a tragedy, both for Californians and for America. For most of the past century, California has been “golden” not only in name but in every…
Tips for Surviving the GOP Debate
Ron Klain, Bloomberg
Having avoided preemption by a presidential address, the debate of hopefuls for the Republican presidential nomination looms tomorrow night as a critical event on the party’s primary calendar.All eight candidates are under pressure to perform, yet that pressure isn’t evenly distributed, and the participants don’t all have the same burdens and opportunities on debate night. So who has to do what to be a winner at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California?
