John Kennedy
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Will Obama stand up to Big Energy in deeds as well as words?
Will the real President Obama please stand up?Photo: Mr. Wright via FlickrThis essay was originally published on TomDispatch and is republished here with Tom’s kind permission. —– Here’s the president on March 31, announcing his plan to lift a longstanding moratorium on offshore drilling: “Given our energy needs, in order to sustain economic growth and produce jobs, and […]
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Newt Gingrich: “I am not a citizen of the world.”
“Ich bin ein Berliner” – not! The other intellectual leader of the GOP – the one whose first name isn’t Sarah – summed up the narrow minded and ultimately self-destructive “every-country-for-themselves” mentality of the modern conservative movement Monday. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich was keynoting the biggest GOP fundraiser of the year for the Senate […]