Global warming threatens our health, our economy, our natural resources, and our children’s future. It is clear we must act.
Never write when you can talk. Never talk when you can nod. And never put anything in an e-mail.
One of the biggest lies in capitalism is that companies like competition. They don’t. Nobody likes competition.
Sometimes in politics, you think you’ve seen it all. Turns out I was wrong.
I don’t care about motivation. I care about credibility.
I don’t have any particular expertise-I’ve never been a banker or an investment banker. But I did see an evolution in the system that I thought was problematic.
Yes, people pull the trigger – but guns are the instrument of death. Gun control is necessary, and delay means more death and horror.
A significant piece of the wealth that the NFL owners garner is a result of the enormous TV revenues they get – and those revenues are supported by a legislatively granted exemption from the antitrust laws that has been made applicable to sports leagues, primarily the NFL.
Tax rates for the wealthy should revert to Clinton-era levels, both because it is necessary for long-term deficit reduction and because fairness dictates it. Moreover, there is no proof that higher marginal rates dissuade investment, all the rhetoric from the Right notwithstanding.
Health care reform, the marquee legislative accomplishment of the Obama administration’s first term, was passed before we entered the world of divided government.
As someone with a deep faith in competition and the market, I also know that markets only work with tough enforcement of the rules that guarantee competition and fair play – and that the pressure to break those rules only gets stronger as the amount of money involved gets larger.
I don’t think Michael Bloomberg would say that his greatest skill is delivering the speech. He would say he’s more of a nuts-and-bolts mayor-picking up the trash, dealing with the school system.
The Tea Party isolated Mitt Romney from mainstream voters, linking him to a rabid ideology that he could not shake as he desperately tried to move to the middle in the closing weeks of the campaign. Lesson: The loudest voices don’t often command the votes needed to win in November.
I would say to those who don’t like the metaphor This is reality.