It’s confirmed: Elena Kagan will be the 112th justice of the Supreme Court making her the fourth woman ever sit on the high court. Solicitor Elena Kagan was president Obama’s nominee for replacing Justice John Paul Stevens and on a 63-37 vote, she’s been elected for the next justice of the court. The vote was [...]
President Obama announced the new national strategy for fighting HIV and AIDS. The goal is to cut infection rates by 25% in the next five years, treat 85% of infected people three months after diagnoses, and shift health funds to help gay people and African American men because they are at highest risk of contracting [...]
Today’s announcement that the federal government intends to sue Arizona to block implementation of a state law designed to discourage illegal immigration is an attempt to intimidate other states from following Arizona’s lead, charged the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR). While the Obama administration is prepared to go to court to prevent Arizona from [...]
Given the public outrage over the largest oil spill in U.S. history, public awareness of solar energy has increased through recent speeches by President Obama about solar energy. This year’s annual day of recognition for the growth of clean, solar energy in the U.S. is SolarDay 2010 – Saturday, June 19. The premise of SolarDay [...]
Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) today proposed that the Obama administration and Congress take five steps to limit the damage and recover from the ongoing Gulf of Mexico oil spill, including passing a $4 billion emergency supplemental appropriations bill. The five steps include: 1. Conduct a massive intervention — suitable in scale for a potentially unprecedented [...]
President Barack Obama’s economic team is already calculating government revenues from a possible Value Added Tax (VAT), according to the New York Times. But since any Social Security plan would probably preserve benefits for those nearing retirement, it would not help the administration achieve its goal of reducing the deficit to 3 percent of gross [...]
