Obama Needs to Think Bigger About Infrastructure
I believe Barack Obama is thinking too small. Economic stimulants produce Bridges to Nowhere. Strategic investment in infrastructure produces a foundation for long-term growth.
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Inaugural Hope, but America Is in Shock
The year 2008 is thus likely to go down in American history as an even more pivotal one than 2001, because the life of the average American is going to be shaped far more by the consequences.
America's Scientific Dream Team
It was just over a year ago that at one presidential debate three candidates identified themselves as not believing in the theory of evolution.
Native America and Green Jobs: Spring Wind Rising from Sand Creek
Recognizing that poverty rates on reservations are twice the national average, Native groups called for support to "operate a new crop of renewable electricity generating infrastructure."
Obama's Latest Dumb Pick: TV Doc Sanjay Gupta
Gupta has embraced junk science, has questionable ethics and seems to have been chosen mostly because he is famous. Forget a Team of Rivals: this is the latest example of Obama's Team of Celebrities.
Is Obama Missing the National Service Moment?
The Obama administration may be about to squander a historic opportunity. By all reports, the economic recovery plan doesn't include a large-scale national service program.
One Last Look Back: The 10 Most Ridiculous, Shameful, or Generally Unfortunate People and Events of 2008
Well, it could've been worse. As 2008 mercifully ends, we're left to ponder a year in which the real and the surreal were pretty much indistinguishable, where insanity actually became tedium.
Holbrooke Just in Time
Let us hope that both our new president and our new Secretary of State will hand over to Holbrooke some of the pressing foreign conflicts to apply his own personal brand of resolution.
An Unrepentant New Dealer Runs for Congress
Voters in Rahm Emanuel's district will have the chance to redeem their state's reputation. They will likely have the chance to elect, out of a crowded race, a true reformer in Thomas Geoghegan.
Get Business Tax Cuts Out of the Stimulus Plan
The money in this economic stimulus package is a small down payment on what is needed to give the U.S. the world class infrastructure we need.
Droppin' Out: The Real American Crisis
For too many years Americans have fought against things: communism, drugs, poverty. Isn't it time to fight for something?
Obama's Silence
As January 20 approaches, Obama will have to make a lonely decision - to remember his 2007 words about Palestinian suffering and his campaign pledge to talk unconditionally with adversaries.
The New Deal Redux
The PWA was Wall Street; the WPA was Main Street. The PWA served to stimulate business; the WPA employed Americans. Both served to boost the economy and rebuild the nation's infrastructure.
Between Gupta and Daschle, Who Will Fix Health Care?
Sanjay Gupta and Michael Moore -- essentially two experts on health care who disagree ideologically on a range of health concerns -- had a fascinating exchange on Larry King Live.
An Open Letter to the Obama People
It's now January, Obama People, and I'm way over this thing. Why, why, why for the love of God are you still sending me emails asking me to give you money? You raised how many millions?
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Its one of those things thats not worth the drama. Believe me I dont like Burris from what I seen of him I understand why Blago chose him they are both attention seekers who cant seem to love the limelight. Just let him in the people will take care of this eventually. They are way more important things to worry about than Blago and Burris.
Carol
In the meantime, China is tired of playing with monopoly $$$$ !!!! So, deficits were just fine for 8 yrs of "conservative" rule !!??
There was no Conservative rule. It was Republican Rule. The words are not synonymous.
Turns out that Blago had Harry pegged. Squishy.