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Special Investigation: Who’s Behind the “Information Attacks” on Climate Scientists?

Tue, 01 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Think Progress - By Climate Guest Blogger - Nov. 01 (Opinion) - by Sue Sturgis, in an Institute for Southern Studies repost This week, in a courtroom in Prince William County, Virginia, a hearing will take place that could have implications for the privacy rights of scientists at colleges and universities across the country. It’s part of a lawsuit brought by the American Tradition Institute, a free-market [...]

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Barack Obama’s Dangerous Embrace Of Economic Fatalism

Wed, 06 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Think Progress - By Matthew Yglesias - Jul. 06 (Opinion) - Even as the Obama administration continues to defend the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act from its critics, the White House appears to have sincerely pivoted away from the idea that a higher level of aggregate demand would reduce unemployment and instead embraced the notion that there’s basically nothing that can be done in the short-term. [...]

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Top 6 Health Care Myths From Yesterday’s Republican Presidential Debate…In One Minute

Tue, 14 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Think Progress - By Igor Volsky - Jun. 14 (News Analysis) - CLAIM 1 FROM BACHMANN: The Congressional Budget Office said the Affordable Care Act will kill 800,000 jobs. FACT: The CBO actually found that some people would leave the workforce or work less because they can find affordable health coverage elsewhere. This is a reduction in the supply of labor, not a reduction in the supply of jobs.

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Rand Paul, ... , Calls For Jailing People Who Attend ‘Radical Political Speeches’

Tue, 31 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Think Progress - By Alex Seitz-Wald - May. 31 (Opinion) - Libertarian-leaning Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) made headlines last week for single-handedly obstructing the renewal of the Patriot Act, calling the law an unconstitutional infringement on civil liberties. His demand to insert a series of amendments to weaken the law nearly allowed it to lapse and put the country at “risk,” but Paul said it was worth it to prevent the government from continuing to “blatantly ignor[e] the Constitution.” But when Paul went on Fox News host Sean Hannity’s radio show Friday to discuss his opposition to the national security law, he suggested implementing a far more serious infringement on civil liberties.

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The Kochs Vs. Mainstreet: the Right-Wing Billionaires' Open War on Everyday Americans

Wed, 02 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

AlterNet - Mar. 02 (Opinion) - Koch Industries, the private company of the billionaire Koch brothers Charles and David, is an oil and gas, chemicals, cattle, forestry, and synthetics giant -- and also a major force for punishing Main Street Americans. Charles and David Koch (pronounced "coke") have directed many millions of their shared $43 billion net worth into a vast propaganda machine that's corrupting American politics in order to reward their pollution-based enterprise.

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The Dual Oil Threats

Mon, 28 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Matthew Yglesias - By Matthew Yglesias - Feb. 28 (Opinion) - When people talk about the risk posed to the economy by oil price spikes it’s worth keeping in mind the fact that there are really two separate threats here.

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Exclusive: Tea Party Billionaire David Koch Denies Climate Change, Shrugs Off His Carbon Pollution

Sat, 08 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Think Progress - Jan. 08 (Opinion) - This is Part 2 of a three-part installment of ThinkProgress’ interview with David Koch. Watch Part 1 here. This week, ThinkProgress conducted an impromptu interview with David Koch — one of the richest men in America, co-owner of the conglomerate Koch Industries, and a top financier of right-wing front groups — after we found him [...]

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The Next Boom

Mon, 25 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Matthew Yglesias - By Matthew Yglesias - Oct. 25 (Opinion) - Even people who are eager to move to denser urban neighborhoods are almost shockingly hostile to the idea of anything in the existing neighborhood being redeveloped in a denser way. So it seems to me that any change that happens, if it does happen, will have to take place on a longer time horizon than Doherty and Leinberger seem to have in mind since there’s a lot of persuasion work that has to be done.

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Exclusive: The Chamber Of Commerce Receives At Least $885,000 From Over 80 Foreign Companies

Wed, 13 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Think Progress - Oct. 13 (News Report) - Last week, ThinkProgress published an exclusive story about the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s foreign fundraising operation. We noted the Chamber raises money from foreign-owned businesses for its 501(c)(6) entity, the same account that finances its unprecedented $75 million dollar partisan attack ad campaign. While the Chamber is notoriously secretive, the thrust of our story involved [...]

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Christine O’Donnell In Oct. 1999: ‘I Dabbled Into Witchcraft’

Sat, 18 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Think Progress - By Faiz Shakir - Sep. 18 (News Report) - O’DONNELL: I dabbled into witchcraft — I never joined a coven. But I did, I did. … I dabbled into witchcraft. I hung around people who were doing these things. I’m not making this stuff up. I know what they told me they do. [...] One of my first dates with a witch was on a satanic alter, and I didn’t know it. I mean, there’s little blood there and stuff like that. … We went to a movie and then had a midnight picnic on a satanic alter.

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Byrd's Life Of Learning

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Think Progress - By Faiz Shakir, Amanda Terkel, Matt Corley, Benjamin Armbruster, Zaid Jilani, Alex Seitz-Wald, Igor Volsky, Tanya Somanader - Jun. 29 (Opinion) - Once a strong proponent of the coal industry, Byrd began to advocate for reform of the industry towards the end of his career, working with other senators to craft global warming legislation that would smooth the transition for miners and the coal industry to a clean energy economy.

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Telecoms’ Secret Plan To Attack Net Neutrality: Target Video Gamers And Stoke Fear Of Chinese Censorship

Wed, 12 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Think Progress - By Lee Fang - May. 12 (News Report) - Net neutrality, a guiding principle for preserving a free and fair Internet, means that Internet service providers are not allowed to discriminate based on content for its customers. However, telecommunications firms — like AT&T, Verizon, Comcast and others — are firmly against net neutrality because they would like to increase their profits by deciding which websites customers can see, and at what speed. The telecom industry has dumped hundreds of millions of dollars into a lobby campaign against net neutrality. As the FCC now takes up net neutrality rule making, the industry is pushing an “outside approach” of hiring front groups and astroturf operatives.

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Native American Suggests He Was Profiled By Arizona Police: ‘New Bill Targets People Of My Color’

Mon, 03 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Think Progress - By Andrea Nill - May. 03 (Opinion) - Since Arizona enacted a set of draconian immigration laws which many claim will “exacerbate racial-profiling,” much of the focus has been on the effect its implementation will have on the state’s Latino population. However, along with being home to

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Obama Budget to Call for Freeze in Non-Security Discretionary Spending

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Think Progress - By Matthew Yglesias - Jan. 26 (Opinion) - The official emphasized that there’s more to the administration’s plans that this freeze proposal, though what that might be will have to wait. Suffice it to say that I’m very skeptical of this approach. I’m attempting not to freak out because (a) I don’t have details and (b) I suspect this initiative was deliberately leaked to progressive bloggers

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Why Reid Shouldn’t Include The Public Option In The Merged Senate Bill

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Think Progress - By Igor Volsky - Oct. 05 (Opinion) - Lawrence O’Donnell — who served as Senate Finance Committee staff director during the debate over President Clinton’s failed health care reforms — tells Politico’s Live Pulse that Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) shouldn’t merge the Senate Finance Committee’s health bill with the HELP Committee’s far more progressive alternative. Sen. George Mitchell tried that in 1994 and Republicans went line-by-line successfully defeating the bill

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Tea Party Patriotism

Sun, 13 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Think Progress - By Matthew Yglesias - Sep. 13 (Opinion) - I wouldn’t want to tell you that the majority of the people I saw at this morning’s tea party were such hard-core patriots that they felt the need to walk around waving flags of treason and slavery: Still it did strike me as noteworthy that your basic tea party crowd isn’t the sort of crowd in [...]

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Sen. Jeff Sessions Slams Sotomayor For Not Voting Like Other Puerto Ricans

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Think Progress - Jul. 15 (Opinion) - This morning, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) castigated Sotomayor for not ruling with her fellow Puerto Rican colleague, conservative Judge José A. Cabranes, when she decided to deny an en banc appeal in Ricci v. DeStefano, a process in which all judges of a court hear a case (as opposed to a three-judge panel of them). Sessions seemed to indicate that people of the same ancestry should vote the same way:

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Obama’s Regulatory Reform Agenda

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Think Progress - By Matthew Yglesias - Jun. 18 (Opinion) - Some on the left seem somewhat disappointed in the administration’s regulatory reform proposals. I think that’s misguided, and it comes from probably expecting too much from prophylactic regulation.

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Peres: Gaza Operation is Collective Punishment, and I Love It

Sat, 17 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Think Progress - By Matthew Yglesias - Jan. 17 (Opinion) - He says it gives him “no pleasure” to see people suffering, but he also says that the main point of the operation is to provide a strong blow to Gaza’s population to teach them a lesson. So that’s kind of a disingenuous protestation of displeasure. And of course in his remarks, Peres is echoing New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman’s explanation of Israeli strategy which, in turn, echoed Friedman’s own rationale for invading Iraq—that we needed to send a “suck on this” message to the Arab world. It also seems related to what Jonah Goldberg has termed the “Ledeen Doctrine”, the view that “Every ten years or so, the United States needs to pick up some small crappy little country and throw it against the wall, just to show the world we mean business.” Israel being much smaller than the United States, it presumably needs to pick up a smaller and crappier place like the Gaza Strip.

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The Dissonance

Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Think Progress - By Matthew Yglesias - Jan. 15 (Comment) - ... it was deliberate Israeli—and American—policy to weaken Fatah for years after the collapse of the Camp David talks. This “help Hamas’s enemy, Fatah” strategy is fine but it needs to be backed up by real steps. And the United States probably needs to take the lead since the Israeli political dynamic has become myopically focused on short-term issues. A president willing to demand a real freeze on settlement activity would be a great first step.

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An Egyptian Gaza?

Tue, 13 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Think Progress - By Matthew Yglesias - Jan. 13 (Comment) - I can’t speak from a great wealth of personal experience, but I do think it’s a mistake to look at the Middle East as just a big ol’ sea of generic Arabs who can be shunted from one country to another. Egyptians are aware of Egypt’s distinctly Egyptian history and heritage and Palestinians have a feeling of common nationhood. That said, if you assume a future Palestinian state, it’s natural that Gaza will in some ways be more connected with Egypt (which it’s next to) than to the rest of Palestine. But think of Alaska. Notwithstanding the fact that Alaska shares a border with Canada along with a language and broadly speaking a “culture,” Alaskans are still Americans. And, indeed, as we’ve seen from Sarah Palin they’re capable of manifesting an ugly brand of American nationalism that’s totally incompatible with being Canadian.

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Israel Bans Arab Parties

Mon, 12 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Think Progress - By Matthew Yglesias - Jan. 12 (Opinion) - Israel’s friends could plausibly claim that Arabs with Israeli citizenship enjoyed more civil and political rights than did Arab citizens of Egypt, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, or the rest. Now there seems to be trouble in paradise

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How Would McCain Mediate A Russia-Georgia Conflict?

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Think Progress - Aug. 08 (News Analysis) - Russia's invasion of Georgia today raises some questions about how a McCain administration might deal with a crisis like this.

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McCain Adviser Holtz-Eakin Ludicrously Asserts Obama Would Be A Third Bush Term

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Think Progress - By James Kvall, Robert Gordon - Jun. 06 (Opinion) - Apparently the McCain campaign is feeling the sting of comparisons to George Bush. McCain describes himself as the strongest support of the war in Iraq. His answer to $4.00 gasoline is to cut oil company taxes by $4

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McCain Falsely Claims He Has 'Supported Every Investigation' Into Katrina Failures»

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Think Progress - By Amanda - Jun. 04 (Opinion) - I've supported every investigation and ways of finding out what caused the tragedy. I've been here to New Orleans. I've met with people on the ground. I've met with the governor. I'm not familiar with exactly what you said, but I've been as active as anybody in efforts to restore the city.

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