Rick Friedman/Polaris/Newscom If confirmed as the next Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary, Dr. Ernest Moniz will take over an agency that has increasingly injected itself into making investment decisions with taxpayer money that would be more efficiently made by the private sector. The Heritage Foundation disagrees with many of the policy recommendations Dr. Moniz has… Read more »
Pssst, Ms. Everhart … Another major fail for the the Republican Party’s rebranding effort: Today’s edition features the chairwoman of the Georgia Republican Party, explaining why marriage equality is a bad idea: Sue Everhart, chairwoman of the Georgia Republican Party, told the Marietta Daily Journal in a story published Saturday that once gay nuptials are… Read more »
Eduardo Porter has a nice column today on the fact that U.S. carbon-dioxide emissions have dropped 13 percent since 2007. He mentions the usual factors: the recession, better fuel-efficiency for cars and trucks, the switch from coal to natural gas. But here’s the flip side to that story: The recent plunge in U.S. carbon emissions… Read more »
Sheryl Sandberg, chief operating officer of Facebook, has a new book entitled “Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead.” The book, building off a popular speech she gave in 2010, encourages women to stop holding back their career ambitions and push hard for success, using decisions from Sandberg’s own life as examples. Reviewing… Read more »