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Ken Salazar and the Environmental Middle

April 8, 2009 – 1:57 am

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar unintentionally illustrates the policy fissures running through the complex debates about energy and the environment. This is the way things are, but not the way they should be.

By Ben Domenech | Posted in Conservation, Features | Also tagged climate change, DOI, Free Market, free market environmentalism, Global Warming, Interior Department, Ken Salazar, OCS, offshore drilling, pragmatic conservation, Vaclav Havel, wind power | Comments

Clive Crook Gets Fiscal Religion

April 8, 2009 – 1:31 am

Read, assuming, of course, you have the stomach for this.

By Pejman Yousefzadeh | Posted in Blogs, Chequer-Board | Also tagged economy, Fiscal Policy, Obama Administration | Comments

Obama’s Basketball Buddy Raises $1.1 Million for Senate Bid

April 7, 2009 – 11:01 am

Illinois Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias, a longtime basketball playing buddy of President Obama, has raised a startling $1.1 million in just 28 days in his 2010 bid to oust Roland Burris.

By Brad Jackson | Posted in Blogs, The Whip | Also tagged 2010, Alexi Giannoulias, Illinois, Roland Burris, US Senate | Comments

The Myth of Soft Power: Ten Effective, Non-Military Options Obama Won’t Use Against North Korea

April 7, 2009 – 9:25 am

Even for North Korea, this missile test was an especially flagrant, telegraphed, and premeditated provocation. There are options for response. But so far, the response from President Obama and his Administration leaves us to suspect that those who promised the voters “soft power” lack either the will to use it or any clear idea of what it really means in practice.

By Joshua Stanton | Posted in Features, Politics | Also tagged China, Christopher Hill, foreign policy, Hillary Clinton, John Bolton, Kim Jong Il, missile launch, North Korea, Russia, soft power, Stephen Bosworth, UN Security Council | Comments

Cheap

April 7, 2009 – 8:45 am

Remember how “stingy” the Bush Administration was accused of being during the Asian tsunami back in 2004?

By Pejman Yousefzadeh | Posted in Blogs, Chequer-Board | Also tagged Cheap, Earthquake, Foreign Affairs, foreign policy, Italy, Obama Administration, Stingy | Comments

Czar Orszag

April 7, 2009 – 2:40 am

It’s not all blogging here at The New Ledger. We write articles too!

By Pejman Yousefzadeh | Posted in Blogs, Chequer-Board | Also tagged Health Care Reform, Obama Administration, Peter Orszag | Comments

Czar Orszag Remakes American Health Care

April 7, 2009 – 12:26 am

From the moment Tom Daschle eliminated himself from consideration to serve as both Secretary of Health and Human Services and as Director of the White House Office of Health Policy, Washington has experienced a massive power vacuum in the health policy realm. Effectively, that means health care reform in America is now the sole property of Peter Orszag.

By Pejman Yousefzadeh | Posted in Features, Politics | Also tagged Ezra Klein, Health Policy, HHS, Kathleen Sebelius, Pejman Yousefzadeh, Peter Orszag, Tom Daschle | Comments

The Last Honest Journalist?

April 7, 2009 – 12:18 am

Or at least, one of the few remaining honest journalists:

By Pejman Yousefzadeh | Posted in Blogs, Chequer-Board | Also tagged Jake Tapper, Media, Obama Administration, Politics | Comments

The Rise of Partisanship in Obama’s “Post-Partisan” Washington

April 6, 2009 – 12:16 pm

President Obama ran his campaign with the promise that he would be “post-partisan”, however, the results so far have turned out quite differently.

By Brad Jackson | Posted in Blogs, The Whip | Also tagged Democrats, Harry Reid, Republicans, Tim Geithner | Comments

Handicapping the Coming GM Bankruptcy

April 6, 2009 – 12:27 am

The UAW is in General Motors’ driver’s seat. President Obama’s people will not allow the union to take any significant pay or benefit cuts. That means the company can not possibly restructure down to a size that makes any sense in today’s markets.

By Francis Cianfrocca | Posted in Features, Market | Also tagged bankruptcy, Francis Cianfrocca, Fritz Henderson, General Motors, GM, Rick Wagoner, Steven Rattner | Comments

The Polarizing President

April 5, 2009 – 11:13 pm

Barack Obama: A Divider, Not A Uniter:

By Pejman Yousefzadeh | Posted in Blogs, Chequer-Board | Also tagged Obama Administration, Partisanship, Polarization, Politics, Polls, Sauce For The Goose | Comments

“I Don’t Know What The Term Is In Austrian”

April 5, 2009 – 9:05 pm

The catchphrase of the Obama Administration may well be “imagine if George W. Bush said something like this”:

By Pejman Yousefzadeh | Posted in Blogs, Chequer-Board | Also tagged Austrian Is A Language?, Foreign Affairs, foreign policy, Gaffes, Obama Administration | Comments

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