Category Archives: Policy

Michael Maslansky takes over CEO role from Frank Luntz

I just received this announcement from Nancy Martira over at Ketchum, following-up on my blog post with the big announcement that Frank Luntz is leaving Luntz, Maslansky Strategic Research:
As you reported on your blog, the close of the […]

CAFE Standards and RES Answers to Questions

Lots of people have so many great questions about the 2007 Energy Bill coming up and what the NET coalition is doing to push through an aggressive energy bill that would push CAFE standards for cars to 35 mpg by 2020 and the percentage of electricity in the US provided by renewable sources of electricity […]

The Spooky Truth “Trick or Treat” Halloween Candy Delivery to Members of Congress


Aggressive CAFE Standards and RES Matter in the Energy Bill


I Am All For American Energy-Independence 100%

I love my big car but I also love American independence more and think that we rely way too much foreign oil and don’t spend nearly enough on energy innovation. Since coal and oil is still plentiful and cheap enough, there isn’t any reason, really, to dump R&D funds into alternative and renewable fuels, energy, […]

Did Toyota Only Build the Prius in Order to Build the Tundra?


The Culture of “Acting White” Anti-Intellectualism Will Kill America

“The concept of ‘acting white’ and worries that African Americans are not pushing their children enough to focus on education have been long-standing concerns of Obama’s — he has mentioned them in several recent speeches — and issues that many prominent members of the community, mostly notably comedian Bill Cosby, have focused on in recent […]

Mara Vanderslice Helps Democrats Communicate their Faith

“Party strategists and nonpartisan pollsters credit the operative, Mara Vanderslice, and her 2-year-old consulting firm, Common Good Strategies, with helping a handful of Democratic candidates make deep inroads among white evangelical and churchgoing Roman Catholic voters in Kansas, Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania.”
Via the New York Times
“The Strategist : Mara Vanderslice of the consulting firm Common […]

Imperial Washington Radio Show by American RadioWorks


We Humans are Not Responsible for Global Warming Admits UN

I don’t believe in global warming. And neither does the United Nations.