by Faiz Shakir, Amanda Terkel, Matt Corley, Benjamin Armbruster, Zaid Jilani, Alex Seitz-Wald, Tanya Somanader
The 2010 midterm elections are just four months away, and with Republicans excited at the prospect of picking up seats and perhaps even gaining a … Read more »
THINK PROGRESS
The Progress Report
by Faiz Shakir, Amanda Terkel, Benjamin Armbruster, Zaid Jilani, Alex Seitz-Wald, Tanya Somanader, and Pat Garafolo
Last month, a proposal by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) that would have cut $35 billion in taxpayer subsidies to … Read more »
The following articles provide sound reasoning on why opening up the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve for drilling would be a mistake:
http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2008/06/drilling_deep.html
http://www.defenders.org/resources/publications/policy_and_legislation/addressing_high_gas_prices.pdf
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0403-26.htm… Read more »
THINK PROGRESS
The Progress Report
by Faiz Shakir, Amanda Terkel, Matt Corley, Benjamin Armbruster, Brad Johnson, Zaid Jilani, Alex Seitz-Wald, Tanya Somanader
July 1, 2010
ENVIRONMENT
Climate Peacocks
Like deficit peacocks who pretend to be hawkish on budgets but refuse … Read more »
From: ThinkProgress.org
Last year, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) — a rising star in the GOP and potential nominee for the presidency in 2012 — gave a widely mocked rebuttal to President Obama’s State of the Union address, prompting many … Read more »
By Maureen Dowd — New York Times.
The great cosmic joke would be to find out definitively that the advances we thought were blessings — from the hormones women pump into their bodies all their lives to the fancy phones … Read more »
By Frank Rich — New York Times.
PRESIDENT Obama is not known for wild pronouncements, so it was startling to hear him liken the gulf oil spill to 9/11. Alas, this bold analogy, made in an interview with Roger Simon … Read more »
By BOB HERBERT – New York Times.
We’ve blown so many enormous opportunities over the past several years. In the immediate aftermath of Sept. 11, 2001, when most of the world had lined up in support of the United States, … Read more »
From: The Progress Report.
Last month, BP CEO Tony Hayward lamented the continuing Gulf oil spill crisis was preventing a return to his privileged life of skiing and sailing. “There’s no one who wants this over more than I do,” … Read more »
This article can be viewed by clicking on this link:
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/17390/111965#… Read more »
