John Tierney

Dems: Mortgage Boss Hid Proof Obama's Mortgage Breaks Would Save Billions

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Mortgage Crisis, Elijah Cummings, Federal Housing Finance Agency, Edward Demarco, John Tierney, Video, Edward Demarco Fhfa, Fhfa, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Democrats on the House Oversight Committee on Tuesday accused the head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency -- who has refused to follo...

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Ex-Fannie Mae Employee: Executives 'Philosophically Opposed' To Loan Forgiveness

HuffingtonPost.com | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 02.09.2012

Read More: Elijah Cummings, Principal Reduction, Congress, John Tierney, Housing Market, Mortgage Modification, Housing, Mortgage Crisis, Federal Housing Finance Agency, Fannie Mae, Principal Writedowns, Housing Crisis, Underwater Mortgages, Video, Freddie Mac, House Oversight Committee, Underwater Homeowners, Principal Reductions, Business News

Fannie Mae executives are refusing to forgive part of homeowners' mortgage debt because they are "philosophically opposed" to the idea, according to a...

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Getting Practical With Your Sustainability Brand

Marc Stoiber | Posted 04.01.2012

Read More: John Tierney, Javier Flaim, Recyclebank, Kyoto Protocol, Cincinnati, Futureproof Brand, Science, NY Times, Green News

The key is to make green practical, not painful. To innovate our way past sacrifice to shiny efficiency without really letting consumers know they're using less.

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Is Willpower Harder For Women?

Barbara & Shannon Kelley | Posted 01.25.2012

Read More: Rachel Combe, Stress, Women, John Tierney, Decision-Making, Willpower, Thanksgiving, Kelly McGonigal, Roy-F-Baumeister, Surviving the Holidays, Women News

A couple of new books dig into the science of willpower, and their findings reveal that the current reality of women's lives leaves us particularly challenged.

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How To Keep Going When You Think You Can't: 5 Tips For Tough Times

Amy Gutman | Posted 01.11.2012

Read More: Tough Times, John Tierney, Job Search, Roy F. Baumeister, Self-Control, Great Recession, Willpower, Consciousness, Motivation, Willpower Tips, Healthy Living Spirit, Emotional Intelligence, Healthy Living News

You probably know the feeling: Just when you most need to push ahead, whatever willpower you once possessed is nowhere to be found. As it turns out, this is no coincidence.

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Quitting Time? Bipartisan Lawmakers Push Obama To Leave Afghanistan

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 07.09.2011

WASHINGTON -- A bipartisan group of eight lawmakers is the latest to demand the United States leave Afghanistan, raising the pressure on President Bar...

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Embattled Afghan Watchdog Resigns As Calls For Oversight Grow

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Stuart Bowen, John Tierney, Charles Grassley, Afghanistan, Afghanistan Corruption, Arnold Fields, Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, Susan Collins, Tom Coburn, Chuck Grassley, Afghanistan Oversight, Sigar, Jason Chaffetz, Claire McCaskill, Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Arnold Fields, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, stepped down Monday amid widespread congressional dissatisf...

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'Peak Oil' Doesn't Matter

Andrew Winston | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Thomas Friedman, John Tierney, Population Bomb, Canadian Oil Sands, Radical Islam, Opec, Wall Street Journal, Goldman Sachs, Matthew Simmons, Peak Oil, Paul Ehrlich, Petro-Dictatorship, Rare Earth Metals, Julian Simon, BP Oil Spill, Jim Woolsey, Thomas Malthus, Oil Supplies, Green News

Are we running out of oil? According to the New York Times, apparently not. But it doesn't matter. We're crazy to rely on it for any longer than we absolutely have to.

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"Daring to Discuss Women in Science:" A Response to John Tierney

Caroline Simard | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gender Equality, Women in Technology, Gender Bias, John Tierney, Math, Anita Borg Institute, Women in Science, Lawrence Summers, Technology News

John Tierney suggests that boys are innately more gifted at math and science.

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Congress Hack Attack: House Member Web Sites Hacked With Anti-Obama Language

Posted 05.25.2011

Several House members had their websites hacked overnight after President Obama's State of the Union Address. Around 6:30 a.m. Eastern, the sites of J...

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Congressmen To Call For Break-Up Of Biggest Banks

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Maurice Hinchey, Peter DeFazio, Banks, Jay Inslee, John Conyers, John Tierney, Glass-Steagall, Business News

Five House Democrats will call this week for a return to a Depression-era law that separated Wall Street investment banking from Main Street commercia...

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Homeowners: "Hey Congress, Get Off Your A**"

Richard Zombeck | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mortgages, John Tierney, Congress, Making Home Affordable, Barney Frank, Martha Coakley, Foreclosure, Loan Modifications, Mortgage, Banks, Business News

Our fearless leaders and elected officials don't really seem to have much to say when it comes to hundreds of foreclosures a week - and that's just in their own districts.

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New York Times' Tierney Wrong on "Saving the Planet"

Todd Palmer and Rob Pringle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Carbon Emissions, John Tierney, Economics, Science, New York Times, Climate Change, Pollution, William Kristol, Green News

Tierney's laissez-faire attitude seem pretty irresponsible. We need a revolution for energy on the scale that the internet was a revolution for information.

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NYT's Tierney Concerned About Use of Science -- In the Obama Administration

John W. Delicath | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Science, New York Times, Obama, Politicization of Science, War-on-Science, Environment, John Tierney, Media News

While skepticism is a virtue for any reporter, you'll have to excuse me if John Tierney's skepticism about the potential politicization of science under Obama seems oddly misplaced.

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New York Times Stands in Solidarity with Washington Post

A. Siegel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Science Reporting, Steven Chu, John Tierney, Climate Change, Science, New York Times, Media, Climate Change Skeptics, Global Warming Deniers, Journalism, Global Warming, Green News

We have to ask ourselves why theoretically serious newspapers hand over precious (and it is precious) column inches to such serial deceivers as John Tierney and George Will.

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Swiftboating the Wal-Mart Movie

Jim Gilliam | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mike Deaver, New York Times, Documentary, Robert Greenwald, Edelman, Wal-Mart, John Tierney, Business News

In another time, the conservative elite would be rushing to embrace a film defending family business from unfair big business destruction. Follow it along, this is classic right-wing echo in action.

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NY Times Grumps Dump On Locavores

Kerry Trueman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John Tierney, Eat Local Movement, Climate Change, Stanley Fish, Stephen J. Dubner, Marion Burros, Kim Severson, Sustainable Agriculture, New York Times, Nicholas Kristof, Global Warming, Locavore, Food, Green News

Small-scale farmers are thriving and the rest of us are flocking to greenmarkets and planting our own veggie gardens. A handful of knee-jerk naysayers at the Times can't derail this local train.

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A Second Look At the NYTimes Science Section's "10 Things To Scratch From Your Worry List "

Treehugger | Lloyd Alter | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cell Phones, John Tierney, Water Bottles, The New York Times, Green, Green Living, Exotic Fruit, Plastic Bottles, Toxic Chemicals, Paper Bags, Climate Deniers, Food Miles, Environment, Cell Phones and Cancer, Green News, New York Times, Plastic Bags, Global Warming, Green News

We have heard of climate deniers and chemical industry defenders, but now John Tierney of The New York Times joins the ranks of the Everything Deniers...

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