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Another Sizable Oil Spill

…thus the Canadian company building it needed approval from the State Department. Frustrated by the U.S. government’s continuing focus on fossil fuels and worried that the Obama administration would approve…

Transition Cabinet Picks

…on a Dec. 2-18 Gallup poll. Transition approval ratings for Clinton, George W. Bush and Joe Biden ranged between 61% and 68%, while Barack Obama’s ratings were higher, ranging from…

The Last Institutionalist President

…But if he may have accomplished more socially progressive goals than any other President in the past 50 years, including Barack Obama, how many Americans – and more specifically how…

Does David Brooks Really Think Student Loans, Public Universities, Public Infrastructure, and Small Business Loans Are Attempts at Socialist Central Planning That Undermines Creativity and Private Enterprise? I Mean … REALLY?* [Appended 1/23]

…a mystifyingly wacky, whiplash-inducing, incomprehensibly-false-fact-based commentary as the one I just read, by David Brooks, in today’s New York Times. The premise: That Obama’s argument for returning the federal government’s…

Ernst and Young, Make-Up Artist*

…senior Obama economic policy aide Jason Furman ripped the new study. Among his complaints: – The report, funded by pro-business groups generally hostile to Obama’s agenda, assumes that none of…