It has been a day of finger-pointing at the first Senate hearing on what caused the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion. None of the men representing the three companies — BP, Transocean, and Haliburton — have wanted to admit total responsibility for what caused the accident on April 20, which resulted in 11 deaths, and in 4,000 square miles of oil contaminated water in the Gulf of Mexico.
The Senate unanimously voted to audit the Federal Reserve. For the first time, the public can peek into the Federal Reserve’s books. But the measure fails to go as far as some would have liked. After the amendment began receiving wide sweeping support and was guaranteed to pass concerned leadership swept in and cut a [...]
As far as New Yorkers are concerned, President Obama is fair and balanced. With the appointment of Sonia Sotomayor–a die-hard Yankees’ fan– and now the nomination of Solicitor General Elena Kagan–an ardent Mets’ fan–the President’s got all his Supreme Court bases covered. But conservatives are already crying foul. From the right, we’re hearing the expected broad brush [...]
President Obama nominated US Solicitor General Elena Kagan to replace Justice John Paul Stevens on the Supreme Court. If confirmed, she would be the youngest member on the court, at age 50, and would be one of three sitting women on the Supreme Court, an historical first. President Obama called her a “trailblazing leader.” But [...]
The vastness of the problems we face makes it easy to feel tiny and insignificant. This is true whether we are talking about poverty, racism, environment or ‘other.’ The cause du jour for despair and a sense of futility seems to be climate change, but what I have to say about it applies to any [...]
