Jim Moss

In a New York Times interview published yesterday, Obama revealed how he’s going to spin his disappointing first two years and massive midterm defeat.

A new CNN poll confirms what we already know. Neither of the major parties is popular with voters. If only we had other viable options…

When it comes to the climate change debate, anecdotal evidence is often misused by both sides.

The September jobs report is out: The private sector gained 64,000 jobs in September…  The public sector lost 159,000. And they weren’t all census jobs, either. Local governments fired 76,000 workers. In other words, this is the first jobs report in recent months that isn’t driven by census layoffs. If there were no census jobs [...]

CNN is incompetent.

The American public is remarkably unconcerned about climate changed. For several years, attitudes about the climate change have been shifting toward apathy and denial.

Politico recently noticed that every major contender for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination who isn’t currently holding office and isn’t named Mitt Romney is now a paid contributor to Fox News. Paul Krugman has an interesting take on this development

The 2010 midterms are not as critical as the Democratic loyalists make them out to be. Progressives are getting dire warning about the repeal of HCR, impeachment of Obama, the death of Social Security, and a host of other right-wing assaults on all that is good and decent should the Democrats lose their majority. I don’t see it.

WARNING: DON’T READ THIS EXCERPT FROM A NEWT GINGRICH CAMPAIGN MEMO WHILE EATING. IT IS DISGUSTING.

The Kerry-Graham-Lieberman bill was likely the last hope for major climate-change legislation for a number of years. With Obama on the defensive and unwilling to spend political capital on the issue, and with Congress certainly getting more Republican in November, a great window of opportunity has been missed.