Obama Talks Carbon Pricing
by Ezra Klein, The Washington Post
6.3.10
“The House of Representatives has already passed a comprehensive energy and climate bill, and there is currently a plan in the Senate — a plan that was developed with ideas from Democrats and Republicans — that would achieve the same goal. And, Pittsburgh, I want you to [...]

Oil Could Reach Atlantic Coasts
by Andrew Revkin, Dot Earth
6.3.10
“For weeks there have been discussions about the potential for the spreading Gulf of Mexico oil slick to slip around Florida and flow up the East Coast. Nowa suite of simulations, run by an international team of ocean and climate scientists, shows this is a likely outcome [...]

NV-Sen: Teabagger leads GOP field, Harry Reid back from the dead
by Daily Kos
6.3.10
“Incumbents don’t generally recover from those kind of numbers, and particularly so in an anti-incumbent year. Yet notice that Reid’s numbers are little changed. It’s the GOP’s numbers that have fallen off a cliff. And one of them will emerge from the primary [...]

Rep. Don Young (R-AK) says BP oil gusher is ‘not an environmental disaster.’
Rep. Tom Cole (R-OK) adds, ‘Acts of God are acts of God.’
By Climate Progress
6.3.10
“Young said: “This is not an environmental disaster, and I will say that again and again because it is a national phenomena. Oil has seeped into this ocean for centuries, [...]

General Motors: Sales up 16.6% compared to May 2009
by Calculated Risk
6.2.10
“General Motors Co. on Wednesday reported a 16.6% rise in May U.S. sales from a year ago to 223,822 vehicles.”
http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2010/06/general-motors-sales-up-166-compared-to.html

SCOTUS Rules 5-4 to Weaken Miranda Decision; Sotomayor Pens Dissent
by Susie Madrak, Crooks and Liars
6.2.10
“In her first strongly written dissent, Justice Sonia Sotomayor said the ruling “turns Miranda upside down” and “marks a substantial retreat from the protection against compelled self-incrimination.
“Some experts on police questioning said the court’s subtle shift would be felt in station [...]

The Netanyahu Government is Running Out of Other Governments It Can Afford to Piss Off
by Daniel Drezner, Foreign Policy
5.31.10
“I’m trying to figure out this story for myself. But I will say this: What I know already makes me worried for the future of Israel, a worry I feel in a deeper way than I think [...]

Assessing Senate Reform Proposals: Part I
by Jonathan Bernstein, The Washington Post
6.2.10
“The logic is that it is absurd to allow multiple filibusters against a given bill; one should be enough. More subtly, if a bill gets to the floor, senators may develop the expectation that it will pass and/or have a chance to amend it into [...]

Learning by Degrees
by Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker
6.7.10
“The skip-college advocates’ contention—that, with the economic downturn, a college degree may not be the best investment—has its appeal. Given the high cost of attending college in the United States, the question of whether a student is getting his or her money’s worth tends to loom large with [...]

Why Conservatives Should Care About Foreign Assistance Reform
By Mark Green, Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network
5.27.10
“Last week I wrote that I would post a series of pieces designed to lay out the Conservative case for foreign assistance reform.  I had a lot positive feedback – and also some negative. Some Conservative writers indicated they thought that we [...]