Al Gore on “the Reality We’re Facing”
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on September 15th, 2011 4:31 am by HL
Al Gore on “the Reality We’re Facing”
Bradford Plumer, Washington Post
Brad Plumer: “An Inconvenient Truth” was basically a primer on global warming—the causes, the problems it creates, the ways we can avert it. So what more is there to add? How will this new presentation be different?AG: It’s very different—a few of the images are the same, but 95 percent of the slides are completely new. The science linking the increased frequency and severity of extreme weather to the climate crisis has matured tremendously in the last couple of years. Think about the last year, we’ve had floods in Pakistan…
GOP Scores Major Upset in NY-9
Caitlin Huey-Burns, RealClearPolitics
HOWARD BEACH, N.Y. — Three months after Democratic Rep. Anthony Weiner resigned his seat for sending vulgar pictures of himself to women on the Internet, businessman Bob Turner became the first Republican in nearly a century to be elected to Congress from New York's 9th Congressional District, delivering a simple but sharp message to the White House that voters here will not be taken for granted.A few minutes past midnight, after the race had been called for Turner, the 70-year-old retired cable television executive addressed a crowd of supporters, most of them wearing black velvet…
Dems’ Civil War Against Obama Begins
Andrew Breitbart, BigGovernment
History will never be able to tell us who made the fatal error in New York’s 9th district – Barack Obama, or Anthony Weiner.Just as Weiner kept on making critical errors every step of the way as his personal scandal unfolded earlier this year, President Obama has done everything in NY-09 to show that he is no friend of Israel and has no clue how to create jobs or learn from his many mistakes.
The Real Scandal Is the Green Jobs Program
Michael Barone, Examiner
One factor favoring President Obama's re-election, according to a recent article by political scientist Alan Lichtman, is the absence of scandal in his administration.Lichtman may have spoken too soon.The reason can be capsulized in a single word: Solyndra.That's the name of a company that manufactured solar panels in Fremont, Calif. (which voted 71 percent for Obama in 2008).Solyndra was the first company to receive a loan guarantee from the Department of Energy as part of the 2009 stimulus package. This wasn't small potatoes. The loan guarantee was for $535 million.It was,…
Obama’s Soul Mate Down Under May Go Down
William Pesek, Bloomberg
It’s as predictable as political leadership gets: When things go awry at home, escape overseas for a while, grip and grin with a foreign head of state and change the subject.Barack Obama may have this tried-and-true strategy in mind as he plans to visit Australia, which is about as far as a U.S. president can get from the rancor in Washington. Yet as he meets with Prime Minister Julia Gillard in November, it will be hard not to wonder about the weak leadership imperiling not only their economies, but also the world at large.