Iran's Defiant Dare = Crunch Time for Obama
Biting economic sanctions -- the type that hit at the very economic and financial heart of the regime and not the Iranian people -- must be aggressively pursued and carefully constructed.
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As the administration seeks to transform the President's rhetoric on jobs into the reality of effective government policy, it needs to get beyond the political and the theoretical and to get into the head's of the nation's thousands of CEOs and business owners. While all of us should appeal to these leaders' better angels, they are also entitled to policies that provide the economic and commercial certainty they need now in order to robustly re-invest in their companies and the welfare of America's workers.
Biting economic sanctions -- the type that hit at the very economic and financial heart of the regime and not the Iranian people -- must be aggressively pursued and carefully constructed.
Palin had notes written on her hand and at the same moment she was making fun of Obama for using a teleprompter. It wouldn't surprise me if Ashton Kutcher popped out of the West Wing and told Obama he'd been punk'd.
Although some community banks will benefit from Obama's plan to make $30 billion in low-cost capital available to them, for most small banks, the issue right now is not a lack of capital.
The Rahm Administration is failing because it believes that the Obama Campaign's big, inspiring message was in fact hippy BS.
So, you think Sarah Palin is embarrassed by the crib-notes-on-the-palm incident? You're kidding, right? These gaffes represent a gamble by Palin and her handlers, a bet they are hedging.
While there was much to mock about the Tea Party convention: the low turnout, Tom Tancredo's immigrant bashing and Sarah Palin's keynote lite, it would be a huge mistake to dismiss the movement that led to the event.
A new social network is about to alter the playing field of the social media world, and it's called PhoneBook.
Who is to blame for the filibuster? The answer: the Senators. A glance in the mirror is all it takes to see the enemy of democracy, the obstructionists, those who would willingly disable the Constitution.
If you want to understand Obamanomics one year out, look at the demand-side hole we're still in, the gargantuan boomer deficit we're heading for, and the mad-as-hell party these bad times have spawned.
To succeed, the Tea Party's more peaceful members will have to balance the opinions of those with more extreme positions. But I have my doubts that they will find that common ground.
The simple truth is that when American corporations pursue profit -- successfully or not -- as long as they stay within the law, they are functioning exactly as we designed them to.
After a year and a half of exposure to this virulently toxic presence, the question on the table is: In our lifetime, has there ever been a worse human being in American politics than Sarah Palin?
President Obama can and should fill federal vacancies with the stroke of his pen. In this time of crisis, history may judge harshly if he fails to do so.
The reality is that we have an unemployment crisis today, not a deficit crisis. The only crisis related to the deficit is that people with vast sums of money have been able to use that money to make the deficit into a crisis.
Americans in our poll are not in favor of abandoning health reform, and indeed assign it a higher priority than homeland security, education reform, and the environment.
A spokesman for the U.S.-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) tells TomDispatch that there are, at present, nearly 400 U.S. and coalition bases in Afghanistan, including camps, forward operating bases, and combat outposts.
Through all of us doing our part, we can prove the researchers wrong who warn that this could be the first generation of children in 200 years to live a shorter lifespan than their parents, due to obesity.
The New York Times ran an article last week entitled "How to Speak Nanny." We were interested to see that the linguistic capabilities of Manhattan's domestics is once again up for discussion.
We think our destiny is to journey to Mars and beyond. Yet as we build our spacecraft, we're about to be broadsided -- from a different direction -- by the most explosive event in history.
Why the violence toward women in these Super Bowl ads?
Democrats need to be a party that projects strength not through the belligerence of our policies but through the strength of our advocacy. John Murtha showed us how to do this.
Few know Mailer deliberated, while lying in bed chasing an increasingly elusive capacity to sleep, how to intermingle flavors.
