Despite RomneyCare Mitt Is Back in Command
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on September 27th, 2011 4:31 am by HL
Despite RomneyCare Mitt Is Back in Command
Tim Carney, DC Examiner
“There is simply no way that Republicans will nominate the man who passed Obamacare's prototype,” a veteran Republican political operative told me earlier this year.But that's exactly what the Republican Party looks likely to do — nominate former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.
‘War of Words’ Over Global Warming
Philip Sherwell, The Telegraph
In a fresh challenge to claims that there is scientific “consensus” on climate change, Prof Ivar Giaever has resigned from the American Physical Society, where his peers had elected him a fellow to honour his work.The society, which has 48,000 members, has adopted a policy statement which states: “The evidence is incontrovertible: global warming is occurring.”
Are We Repeating Mistakes of the 1930s?
Robert Samuelson, Newsweek
WASHINGTON — “We are back in a danger zone,” says a top economist at the International Monetary Fund. Though an understatement, it captures the central paradox of this year's annual meeting of the IMF and World Bank. Everyone is alarmed at the swift deterioration of the economic outlook, but there is no leadership — no consensus on what to do or, even when crude agreement exists, little conviction that practical politics will permit action. There is a hazardous vacuum of ideas and power.Actually, what needs to be done is not obscure. Europe is now the flash point of global…
What Good Has Bipartisanship Done?
Frank Rich, New York Magazine
The election is still thirteen months away, but in certain coastal circles, the quadrennial wailing has erupted right on schedule: “If that man gets in the White House, I’m moving out of the country!” This time that man is Rick Perry, who might have been computer-generated to check every box in a shrill liberal fund-raising letter: a gun-toting, Bible-thumping, anti-government death-penalty absolutist from Texas. And this time the liberals’ panic is not entirely over-the-top. Perry isn’t a novelty nut job like Michele Bachmann….
Euro Zone Death Trip
Paul Krugman, New York Times
Is it possible to be both terrified and bored? That’s how I feel about the negotiations now under way over how to respond to Europe’s economic crisis, and I suspect other observers share the sentiment.On one side, Europe’s situation is really, really scary: with countries that account for a third of the euro area’s economy now under speculative attack, the single currency’s very existence is being threatened — and a euro collapse could inflict vast damage on the world.
