Tag: President Obama
January 22, 2013 at 8:38 amCategory:Uncategorized
In case you were enjoying the April-like weather yesterday and missed it, the New York Times and Raleigh’s News & Observer both have interesting takes on the President’s speech.
And in case you’d like to watch it yourself, click here.
January 17, 2013 at 7:30 amCategory:Uncategorized
The good people at Think Progress have made the President’s gun proposal and all of its common sense components easilty digestible with this handy 13-point explanation.
“The initiatives cover everything from mental heath, to gun safety, to blocking the most deadly firearms from making it to market. Here are some of the most important efforts the President introduced today:
1. Making background checks universal. Obama wants every single gun owner to go through a proper background check, so it can be determined whether they have a criminal history or diagnosed mental illness. He wants Congress to close the gun show loophole that allows people at gun shows, and private buyers of used weapons, to avoid getting checked. He will also, through executive action, urge private sellers to conduct background checks, even if they aren’t mandatory. Read More…
December 3, 2012 at 2:27 pmCategory:Uncategorized
A swelling chorus of advice is emerging in recent days amongst progressive thinkers and commentators about the ongoing fiscal policy negotiations in Washington. The message: “Hang tough Mr. President.”
James Protzman over at Blue NC has posted an example — a nice little video from former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich.
But other are saying the same thing:
Robert Kuttner says a lot of the same things in this column, entitled “About time: Obama finally gets tough.”
Meanwhile, the experts at the Center on Economic and Policy Research have weighed in on the hysteria surrounding the so-called “fiscal cliff.”
Finally, Paul Krugman exposes the true nature of the conservative con game in this NYT column.
November 13, 2012 at 9:51 amCategory:Uncategorized
Well, it’s good to see that the folks on Right Wing Avenue — the folks whose “think tanks” and corporate lobby brigade have had our government under their collective thumb for decades — are at least keeping things in perspective when it comes to the re-election of the President.
Here’s the “Director of Regulatory Studies” at the Locke Foundation in a post entitled “They broke it, we bought it“: Read More…
October 19, 2012 at 8:24 amCategory:Uncategorized
Economist Dean Baker takes confused New York Times columnist David Brooks to the woodshed this morning for his partisan and inaccurate attack on clean energy and global warming.
Brooks tries to attack the Obama administration for its investments in green energy and then, as “evidence” that the investments have “failed,” states that there’s an oversupply of solar panels and that their price has fallen dramatically.
But, as Baker notes, that was one of the main objectives!
“Wow, what a disaster! Prices of solar panels have fallen by three quarters in 4 years. Those people in the Obama administration must feel really stupid. They thought their clean energy program would make alternative energy competitive, but look now, prices of solar panels fell by 75 percent in four years. Read More…