Center for American Progress Action Fund. Posted June 10, 2008. McCain offers a simple health plan for Americans: Don’t get sick. While Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., has revealed little about his health care plan, the broad outlines of his proposal represent a “radical” departure from the current employer-based system, providing less coverage and imposing higher [...]
Archive for June 10th, 2008
10 Jun
Washing Machine That Uses Just a Cup of Water
By Martin Hickman, Independent UK. Posted June 10, 2008. A washing machine that cleans clothes by pounding them with plastic chips could save billions of litres of water a year, its inventors claim. The Xeros uses less than 2 per cent of the water — and energy — of a conventional model and leaves clothes [...]
10 Jun
Why Oil Prices Are So High: A Case of Supply, Demand, and Speculation
By Sam Pizzigati, Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality. Posted June 10, 2008. Looking for villains around the gas pump? Look at the super-rich making bets with billions while regular people always lose. In the late 1990s, we had the stock market bubble. That popped. Then we had the housing market bubble. And [...]
10 Jun
The Truck Stops Here
The Price of Diesel Is Forcing Truckers Out of Business SOURCE: AP/Carolyn Kaster Dave Dellinger of Fredericksburg, Pennsylvania directs truckers to a truck drivers rally to protest high fuel prices at the Gables truck stop in Harrisburg, PA. June 9, 2008 Newspapers across the country are leading with coverage of new, record-breaking gas prices, [...]
10 Jun
Kucinich Presents 35 Articles of Impeachment Against Bush
From Faiz Shakir: Yesterday evening on the House floor, Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) presented 35 articles of impeachment against President Bush to Congress. ?The first article Kucinich presented regarded the war in Iraq. ?Article 1: Creating a secret propaganda campaign to manufacture a false case for war against Iraq.?? Related Tags:
10 Jun
Clinton’s Grace Note
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton in Washington on Saturday. (By Win Mcnamee — Getty Images) By Eugene Robinson Tuesday, June 10, 2008; Page A23 Hillary Rodham Clinton’s speech Saturday conceding the Democratic presidential nomination to Barack Obama couldn’t have been classier — and couldn’t have been more auspicious for the party’s chances of capturing the White [...]
10 Jun
On energy policy, is better than Bush enough?
By Carol M. Browner and Bob Sussman June 10, 2008 LAST WEEK, the Senate considered a bipartisan global warming bill – the closest such a far-reaching measure has ever come to passage. Although the bill failed in the end, over half of the Senate supported action on climate change.ministration will have a historic opportunity to [...]
