Solar Energy: “We’re trying to lay a foundation for a new economy…We are investing not in digging more oil wells but in building more wind farms, investing in solar energy….We are going to have an economy that [is] not based on a bubble.” (Media Teleconference, 6/8/09)
This Tuesday, Joe Biden will be traveling to a solar [...]

“Today you are the media, it is your duty to report and keep the hope alive.”
- A recent Facebook status update by Mir Hossein Mousavi
Over the weekend, I touched on the significance social media is playing in this revolution, and Mashable has more details…
The status update, posted in Farsi and translated both in the Facebook [...]

While the Obama administration has been the most transparent of any so far, he has still broken some pretty specific promises, much to the consternation of those who voted for him.
From New York Times:
“When there’s a bill that ends up on my desk as president, you the public will have five days to look online [...]

This is pretty astonishing.
Apparently the number of votes exceeded the number of voters in over 50 cities, for a discrepancy of about 3 million votes.
But yeah…they don’t care:
The discrepancies, the most sweeping acknowledged so far by the authorities, could affect some three million ballots of what the government says was an 85 percent turnout [...]

If you are looking for a job in Florida, there are some new requirements in the municipality of Brooksville.
City workers are required to use deodorant before coming to work. It does not appear there will be any spot checks, though.
You should also make sure that you wear underwear. Not wearing undies will get you into [...]

Hello this is Mike Fritz from the American News Project. We have a new story out that focuses on those most affected by the bailout of General Motors: laid off autoworkers.
It examines one of the central tensions in the public takeover of the company: Should federal dollars be spent building a lean, [...]

Between the 2008 election and the current situation in Iran, social technologies have changed politics in very real, very meaningful ways.
Now, with these immediate, uncontrolled communication channels available (Twitter, YouTube, Facebook), citizens finally have the ability to share what’s really going on without the media filter.
Iranian leaders didn’t anticipate this, but other repressive regimes [...]

Lots has been going on and I haven’t had the time to share it all.
Basically what it boils down to is this. The Iranian government is finally starting to crack down for real and the people aren’t standing down. Meanwhile, Obama still hasn’t come out in favor of Mousavi, and that’s drawing criticism stateside from [...]

The moment I heard Kent Conrad’s plan I knew it could pick up steam as a bipartisan solution…especially since it was designed to do just that.
Now another Blue Dog Dem is voicing support for the idea…
U.S. Sen. Blanche Lincoln, D-Ark., says she prefers private insurance cooperatives to a government-run provider that would compete with the [...]

Funniest President ever?
You be the judge….

Personally, I think Reagan still knew how to deliver a line better than any other President I’ve seen. But he was an actor, so if we’re going with non-actors, Clinton and Obama are neck and neck.
One note though…while it’s fun to make light of the news of the day, Americans [...]

Cause for alarm? If you track polls it might be because it has dipped to its lowest mark since he took office. And that means his overall rating has dipped to 58%.
Here are the breakouts…

My guess as to why this is happening? People are nervous about the economy and the deficits. And that last one [...]

Alan wrote yesterday about things heating up with North Korea, and nownuclear tensions are growing on the high seas…
The U.S. military is preparing for a possible intercept of a North Korean flagged ship suspected of proliferating weapons material in violation of a U.N. Security Council resolution passed last Friday, FOX News has learned.
The USS John [...]

“The mother lode of all data information will be from the Census. … Unfortunately, the Census data has become very intricate, very personal, a lot of the questions that are asked. I know for my family, the only question we will be answering is how many people are in our home. We won’t be answering [...]

Love it!

(h/t: PBH)

…or lowering yourself to Fox News’ level (which is saying something).
While I understand just what the folks at OpenLeft.com are doing, I think it’s downright lame.
When Bill O’Reilly sends out his goon squad to harass people with whom he disagrees, it ain’t right. [I've railed against it before] It’s also ain’t right when [...]

The whispers around Washington is that healthcare reform is in trouble.
Even liberal blogger Ezra Klein is now scaling back his expectations and characterizing any progress as a good step forward…
It is one of the paradoxes of the legislative process that something that is substantively quite timid can also be quite bold. This version of [...]

You probably noticed that I didn’t write anything about John Ensign’s affair because it seemed like just another hypocrite doing what hypocrites do.
But when I read the following letter penned by one of Ensign’s former employees (as well as the husband of the woman Ensign pursued), I was moved enough to share it. You’ll find [...]

North Korea seems very insistent on testing President Obama. Apparently, the U.S. government is tracking a North Korean freighter suspected of carrying illicit arms.
Government officials say they will act within the bounds of a recent UN Security Council resolution which permits international navies to request the inspection of North Korean cargo vessels but does not [...]

After the CBO projected major deficits, the plan was revised and recirculated. And this comes just in the nick of time, as Daschle & Dole’s “state run healthcare” plan has made a major splash today.
Ezra Klein got his hands on the latest and describes it as such…
Sources say that it’s a major scale-back of the [...]

As you may recall, on the campaign trail, Joe Biden was heralded as “head of the Middle Class taskforce” – whose activities can be viewed here.
Yet the question remains: What has Joe Biden done for the Middle Class?
Several months ago, I checked the Middle Class Task Force site only to find a discussion of ways [...]