
Bank Stress; Gay Marriage; Afghani-Paki-stan; Jack Kemp
Alert the media: Banks need money! Who’s stressed and who’s reassured by the government’s test of the banks’ capitalization? With Pakistan in serious danger, Afghanistan hardly a model of an emerging democracy and their leaders are in Washington, what will the US role be? Maine legalized same sex marriage. Is it true that state’s rights have become the vehicle for progressive causes? Plus, we remember Jack Kemp.
Banner image: President Obama with Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai (L) and Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari (R) during a statement in the Grand Foyer of the White House May 6, 2009. Official White House Photo: Lawrence Jackson
Links:
- Results of Supervisorial Capital Assessment Program (stress tests)
- Krugman on stressing the positive
- Slowing pace of unemployment, 'To the Point' on
- US-Afghan-Pakistani meeting
- Afghanistan, Pakistan and American security, 'To the Point' on
- State of Maine passes same-sex marriage legislation
- New York Times article on Obama and same-sex marriage
- Jack Kemp (New York Times) obituary
- Pelosi, the CIA and waterboarding, CNN on
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