The US has joined Germany and Japan in what is becoming a global recession. The era of big government is over is over. In the crisis, we are, as Richard Nixon once said, "all Keynesians now."
Anyone who cares about Obama's fortunes should close his copy of Goodwin and open the actual words of Hillary Clinton on Iraq, and the things Barack Obama said about those words.
If we allow the unionized American automobile industry to collapse, we will accelerate the reduction of middle class incomes for everyone. That collapse would start a tidal wave of lower wages.
Autoworkers are aces with me. And so are cars. Very useful for getting around. That said, there are only two reasons to save an American car company: Nostalgia and nativism. And neither of those is a very good reason.
When I hear talk of the US taxpayer wanting zero bonuses on Wall Street this year, it concerns me that the public doesn't understand how talent works.
The neocons, deprived of a John McCain presidency, have latched onto a new potential female savior. No, it isn't Sarah Palin. It's Hillary Clinton.
The Republican primary fight that didn't happen in the first months of 2008, may be unfolding now. As they begin to regroup, the GOP finds itself lacking leadership, vision or new constituencies.
Ten months of heavy job losses left places the end of terrible job losses somewhere next summer. And that assumes we'll see a rate of job destruction on par with the worst rate of the last 60 years.
Speaking for my tiny little chunk of the liberal blogosphere, I don't like Joe Lieberman. I was disgusted by Hillary's campaign. And I couldn't be happier with Obama's decisions.
By day we would interview all sides of the Northern Ireland debate, trying allow different points of view to be aired. By night, I would get e-mails from people urging me not to believe what others told me.
We can't afford to watch consumers' finances dragged down by unfair credit card practices. It wouldn't be fair in any situation, but at a time of such national financial turmoil, it's an even bigger threat to our economy.
Throwing taxpayers' good money into that sink hole called the US auto industry will be tantamount to a transfer of wealth from tax payers to GM employees.
I hope Obama's renewed commitment to Afghanistan extends far beyond the mere bolstering of coalition forces. What the Afghan people need is international attention to serious failures in the civil sector.
As an Obama staffer in Michigan, reasonably often I found myself saying, "Which would be worse: losing your job or having a black president?"
If Gingrich really believes that gays campaigning for the right to marry are "a very dangerous threat" to straight society, then either he doesn't know any gays, or he doesn't know any straight people.
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It is stunning to see an accurate and honest assessment of what our continued reliance on coal would mean: a crime against the climate. And clean coal? A 50 percent increase in electricity rates.
I thought all those stories about the bang up business at gun stores after Obama's win sounded hokey. And they are.
Do conservatives want their spawn to be carping 75 years from now that public investment didn't create a clean energy economy, didn't establish high-speed rail, and didn't lift our economy out of the ditch?
