Betsy Southerland, who was director of the Office of Science and Technology at the EPA’s Office of Water under the Obama administration, called the new rule “scientifically indefensible and socially unjust,” forcing communities to pick up the cost of controlling pollution from miners,...
Maybe it should also be called the War on the Poor. (posted 7/16/13, permalink) Nixon Redux: Peggy Noonan wrote, "We are in the midst of the worst Washington scandal since Watergate. The reputation of the Obama White House has, among conservatives, gone from sketchy to sinister, and, ...
A Kenyan friend recently checked in to ask what I had written about the Kenyan election. I had to say “very little”. I have been committed to my more unique role as a witness to what went wrong in 2007-08 and tried to avoid the risk of being just another opinionated outsider missing...
2. Har Mar Superstar, Best Summer Ever (Cult) Imagine Paul Giamatti in his jockey underpants singing soul in the ’80s manner of ABC’s The Lexicon of Love and the Communards’ “Don’t Leave Me This Way”—that same elastic rhythm, synthesizers swimming through t...
Since I’ve been back on the blog, I have said very little about the so-called biracial experience. It amazes me that it’s still easier, even for me with all of my good “mixed” intentions, to talk about black and white. I forgive myself for this because without the black and ...
WHEN: MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 20TH AT 12PM ET WHERE: CNBC’s "Investing in America: A CNBC Town Hall Event with President Obama" Following is the unofficial transcript of a CNBC EXCLUSIVE town hall with President Barack Obama today, ...
For instead of his sham of a run for President, where he never attacked Romney, Paul should have called for Obama’s impeachment, as demanded by any Congressman, under Oath to Defend the U.S. Constitution. Ron Paul is a cowardly sham who knows nothing of the U.S. Constitution, which...
Part 1: Obama and Ayers: The Provocateur Exhumed http://emperors-clothes.com/exhumed.htm Part 3: Obama Forgets the Early '80s http://emperors-clothes.com/forget.htm Part 4: A Weatherman Dream in New York http://emperors-clothes.com/dream.htm ...
For the basketball party, Obama, the so-called “first sports fan” and ESPN junkie, invited members of the Illinois and North Carolina delegations and officials from the Charlotte area, where the 2012 Democratic National Convention will be held. More than 50 people attended, at least one of...
— Abortion is a major X factor.Democrats have long played defense on so-called culture war issues, but after theDobbsruling, Messina said, Democrats have an issue to rally voters around unlike anything he’s seen in modern politics. And its staying power, he added, is only buoyed by a ...