Jeffrey Sachs aptly connects the dots in this recent piece, explaining how: “Climate skeptics are recycled critics of controls on tobacco and acid rain.”
On a side note: Sachs will be the commencement speaker at my graduation from Grinnell in May!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/cif-green/2010/feb/19/climate-change-sceptics-science

Depending on who you ask, the Democrat’s health care reform efforts fall somewhere on the political spectrum between “dead” for at least another generation and “at the two-yard line” of reaching a final deal. I tend to believe reality falls somewhere much closer to the later sentiment than the former. On January 30, for example, [...]

A recent letter written by Sen. Judd Gregg (R-NH) has prompted Politico to ask: “Can Judd Gregg help White House save health bill?”
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0210/32814_Page2.html

Republicans have been stalling President Obama’s nominee, Craig Becker, to the National Labor Relations Board simply because he has a pro-union philosophy, simply because he will stand up for the middle-class.
Sen. Brown (D-OH) and other member of the Senate have had enough of it.
According to Judiciary Committee Chairman Pat Leahy (D-Vt.): “I’m in my thirty-sixth [...]

Obama’s proposed budget for FY 2011 has lead to a dramatic surge in criticism and deficit-related doom-saying. Krugman’s response?: Don’t buy the fiscal scare tactics.
In other words, yet again, there is a huge gap between the rhetoric of our politicians and “pundits” and the reality of fact.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/05/opinion/05krugman.html

Robert Samuelson provides a compelling take on:
(1) the real impetuses behind the current economic crisis, and
(2) what those impetuses reveal about the nature of our democracy
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/02/03/the_perils_of_prosperity_the_story_behind_the_economic_crisis_100149.html