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Power Grid Limits Potential of Renewable Energy
New York Times - By Matthew L. Wald - Aug. 27 (News Report)
The dirty secret of clean energy is that while generating it is getting easier, moving it to market is not. More »
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Obama's Response Ad Reflects Lessons of 2004
Washington Post - By Jonathan Weisman - Aug. 26 (News Report)
Sen. Barack Obama's campaign and its allies, mindful of the lessons of the Swift boat attacks of 2004, have begun an aggressive, multi-pronged attack on an advertisement running... More »
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Convention donors often have business before lawmakers and regulators
Los Angeles Times - By Tom Hamburger, Vimal Patel - Aug. 25 (Special Report)
the problem facing public officials raising large donations for both political parties' conventions: The largest donors frequently have some of the largest business issues pending... More »
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At OpEdNews: See No Hemp, Hear No Hemp, Speak No Hemp, Part I
Op Ed News - Aug. 18 (News Analysis)
They knew in the 1930's that we could make biodiesel out of hemp. It was the Lumber Companies who opposed it. For we can make paper out of it, along with plastics and cloths... More »
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Democrats to Offer Bill With Offshore Oil Drilling
Common Dreams - Aug. 17 (News Report)
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Saturday when the U.S. Congress returns next month from its summer recess, Democrats will offer legislation that could give oil companies... More »
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The global consensus on trade is unravelling
Financial Times - By Lawrence Summers - Aug. 25 (Opinion)
with almost all the industrial world in or near recession, much of the momentum in the global economy is coming from countries with authoritarian governments that are pursuing... More »
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Putting US Energy in the Wrong Place
Time - By Bryan Walsh - Aug. 21 (Opinion)
As McCain repeats his drilling mantra, critics point out that there is far too little untapped oil in American waters to make a significant difference in gas prices, especially... More »
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We Can't Tax Our Way Out of the Entitlement Crisis
Wall Street Journal - By R. Glenn Hubbard - Aug. 21 (Opinion)
If Mr. Obama is going to increase spending, will he raise the money by higher business taxes instead? He has already distanced himself from John McCain's call to reduce America's... More »
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How To Burn the Speculators
Mother Jones - By James K. Galbraith - Aug. 21 (Opinion)
Speculators buy the futures on the chance that the market price will be substantially higher. They make a respectable profit on what is in effect an insurance function, and a... More »
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Russia's Return Bites the Neocons' Grand Energy Scheme in the Ass
AlterNet - By James Howard Kunstler - Aug. 19 (Opinion)
It's one thing that US foreign policy wonks imagined that Russia would remain in a coma forever, but the idea that we could encircle Russia strategically with defensible bases in... More »
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McCain's wealth difficult to track
New York Times - By David M. Halbfinger - Aug. 23 (Special Report)
John McCain is one of the richest members of the Senate. Yet barely a sliver of it is in his name. When he is in Washington, he lives in a luxury high-rise condominium in... More »
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FBI saw threat of mortgage crisis
Los Angeles Times - By Richard B. Schmitt - Aug. 25 (Special Report)
Long before the mortgage crisis began rocking Main Street and Wall Street, a top FBI official made a chilling, if little-noticed, prediction: The booming mortgage business, fueled... More »
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Obama's Response Ad Reflects Lessons of 2004
Washington Post - Aug. 26 (News Report)
Sen. Barack Obama's campaign and its allies, mindful of the lessons of the Swift boat attacks of 2004, have begun an aggressive, multi-pronged attack on an advertisement running... More »
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Uninsured pay $30 billion for health care: study
Reuters - Aug. 25 (News Report)
"From society's perspective, covering the uninsured is still a good investment. Failure to act in the near term will only make it more expensive to cover the uninsured in the... More »
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Google and Yahoo tread carefully in Beijing row
Financial Times - Aug. 22 (News Report)
Since the end of last year, the California First Amendment Coalition, a free speech group with ties to the US tech industry, has been pushing the Bush administration to launch a... More »
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Democrats to Offer Bill With Offshore Oil Drilling
Common Dreams - Aug. 17 (News Report)
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Saturday when the U.S. Congress returns next month from its summer recess, Democrats will offer legislation that could give oil companies... More »
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Who's winning the message war, Obama or McCain?
Salon - Aug. 12 (News Analysis)
Given the size of this year's political war chest, and the determination of the Obama campaign to carry the fight far beyond the old familiar swing states, this summer and fall... More »
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We Can't Tax Our Way Out of the Entitlement Crisis
Wall Street Journal - Aug. 21 (Opinion)
If Mr. Obama is going to increase spending, will he raise the money by higher business taxes instead? He has already distanced himself from John McCain's call to reduce America's... More »
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For Obama, Taxes Are About Fairness
Opinion Journal (WSJ) - Aug. 19 (Opinion)
it doesn't really matter whether a tax increase actually brings in more revenue. It's not about robbing from the rich to give to the poor... More »
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Privatization: Less expensive?
Seattle Post Intelligencer - Aug. 13 (Editorial)
Privatization is supposed to save money, promote efficiency and provide as good or better services. At least that's the theory put forth by adherents with varying degrees of... More »
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Joe Biden's pro-RIAA, pro-FBI tech voting record.b
CNET News - Aug. 24 (Blog Post)
By choosing Joe Biden as their vice presidential candidate, the Democrats have selected a politician with a mixed record on technology who has spent most of his Senate career... More »
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Pelosi Spins and Smears on Drilling
Real Clear Politics - Aug. 19 (Opinion)
One major problem with politics -- as we've all probably figured out by now -- is that politicians view every human challenge as political in nature, meaning, particularly these... More »