Government Should Increase Fuel Mileage Standards
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on November 27th, 2011 5:31 am by HL
Government Should Increase Fuel Mileage Standards
Is This the Euro’s Last Stand?
Michael Schuman, Time
Who has time for pleasantries when the fate of Europe and the global economy is at stake? After Mario Monti, an economist with little experience in the rough world of Italian politics, was sworn in as the country's new Prime Minister on Nov. 16, German Chancellor Angela Merkel sent him a congratulatory letter that minced no words. With Italy, the euro zone's third largest economy, gripped in a debt crisis, Europe was counting on him to repair his country and save the euro from disaster. “There are many hopes and expectations set on you,” she wrote. “It would behoove…
Team Obama Maps Out Path to Victory
Benjy Sarlin, Talking Points Memo
President Obama sure looked like a two-term president in November 2008 as he presided over an electoral map more dominant than many thought possible after two ultra-polarized contests in 2000 and 2004. But with a weak economy that shows little signs of serious improvement before election day, things are going to be a whole lot tougher this time around. Will his wide playing field from 2008 hold up again four years later?The good news for Obama is that even though he’s heading for a tough fight, few of his 2008 swing states have moved off the board entirely. Indiana, a narrow and…