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...able to give a great speech on the costs of a college education, his policies will hurt the very families that they aim to help by weakening the economy.” Weatherl said Obama’s plans to allow the Bush tax cuts to expire and to enact policies that would “fail to allow free trade” would weaken the economy, forcing recent college graduates further into debt. Although the issue of tuition costs was ranked most important among issues related to higher education, respondents were nearly equally divided over whether the federal government...
...table. Please see hardcopy of magazine.] DEMOCRAT Hillary Clinton DEMOCRAT Barack Obama REPUBLICAN John McCain 'I would take immediate, comprehensive action to fix the housing crisis.' Calls for a $30 billion emergency fund to help states combat the foreclosure mess; gives lenders new incentives to restructure mortgages 'I would enact my mortgage agenda to ensure that families can stay in their homes.' His proposal would give lenders incentives to buy or refinance existing adjustable-rate mortgages and convert them to 30-year fixed ones 'Eliminate the AMT, which the middle class was never intended to pay.' McCain wants...
...Senate passed?The Intelligence Authorization Bill bans the Central Intelligence Agency from using acts of torture. It calls on the CIA to follow the United States Army Field Manual on Human Intelligence Collector Operations in the treatment of individuals. For Senator McCain, this bill was a seminal opportunity to enact measures he has been advocating for years. The bill explicitly banned waterboarding, and McCain has been one of the strongest voices calling on the White House to ban the practice as torture. Yet when asked to explain his recent vote, McCain argued, “What we need...
...there is a lesson to be drawn from this for the AKP, it is that Turkey's political balance is delicate and to enact change requires coalition-builders, not bulldozers - even with 47% of the vote. Erdogan might learn to rein in his famous temper and accomodate critics. For instance, he abandoned a much-needed reform to overhaul the constitution, a leftover from a 1980 military coup, in favor of a one-off amendment to lift the ban on headscarves in universities. "If Erdogan stuck to his original steps, like joining Europe and integrating with the global economy, he wouldn...
...opportunity that the U.S. will miss if it fails to enact the policies to match its technology. That's the underlying message of Earth: The Sequel: while America has no shortage of would-be environmental entrepreneurs - the same class of people who brought us the Internet and biotech - those solutions won't leave the laboratory without political support. Right now there are countless smart new ways to get energy that won't destroy the Earth, but they're not price competitive with cheap fossil fuel power because they lack economic scale. As solar panels or wind turbines are produced...