Michael Sigman: 9/11, Financial Crisis, Church Sex Scandal? Imagine That!
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on April 4th, 2010 4:44 am by HL
Michael Sigman: 9/11, Financial Crisis, Church Sex Scandal? Imagine That!
I’m sure there are plenty of unimaginable things in the Universe, though it’s impossible to imagine what they are. But flying a plane into a building, the crash of a financial system and sex abuse by priests, we can safely say, aren’t among them.
Arianna Huffington: Sunday Roundup
Happy Easter, HuffPosters! This week delivered a courageous ruling on the illegality of Bush’s domestic wiretapping program; a cowardly example of attacking the messenger by those defending the Pope; and the bizarre revelations of bondage club expenditures by the RNC. The environmental scorecard showed both a victory and a head-scratching setback. The victory: the biggest-ever jump in fuel economy standards (fleets must average 35.5 mpg by 2016, up 30 percent from current standards). This is a smart and long overdue way of reducing America’s dependence on foreign oil. The setback: the Obama administration’s decision to allow offshore drilling for oil and gas in selected areas. This is a risky and shortsighted way of reducing America’s dependence on foreign oil. Better to send fossil fuels the way of the dinosaurs that created them and focus on the alternative energy future. Innovate, baby, innovate!
Gordon Whitman: One Extraordinary Sunday
The fight to make health care a right in the U.S. spans generations. National health reform rests on the foundation of years of local and state organizing and advocacy.
Anya Morgan: A Blunt Reform Redux?
Is Obama furthering his reputation as the new New Dealer with his tentative support of the legalization of marijuana?