Mar 3, 2010 31 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
NY Times: To meet the Obama administration’s targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions, some researchers say, Americans may have to experience a sobering reality: gas at $7 a gallon. To reduce carbon dioxide emissions in the transportation sector 14 percent from 2005 levels by 2020, the cost of driving must simply increase, according to a forthcoming report ...
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Washington Post: As Democrats on Capitol Hill prepared a risky effort to muscle sweeping health-care legislation to final passage, President Obama on Tuesday made a last gambit to split Republicans on the issue, proposing to incorporate a handful of GOP ideas into his signature domestic initiative. On Wednesday, Obama plans to call on Congress to bring the ...
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"Where's the beef?" - Labor Unions New York Times: ORLANDO, Fla. — The nation’s union leaders said on Tuesday that they were “appalled†at remarks made by President Obama condoning the mass firing of teachers at a Rhode Island high school. Coming the day after union presidents sharply complained to Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. over stubbornly ...
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Fox News: An investigation is underway after a child was heard giving instructions to a pilot from the air-traffic control tower at one of America's busiest airports. In a recording that has been confirmed as genuine by the Federal Aviation Administration, the child makes five transmissions from John F Kennedy International Airport — with the pilots in ...
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison conceded the Republican nomination for Texas governor to Gov. Rick Perry on Tuesday night following a heated, multimillion-dollar fight between the party heavyweights. Hutchison told supporters in Dallas that she called Perry once she believed the election results were clear. "We have fought valiantly for our principles, but we ...
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WASHINGTON (AP) – Rep. Charles Rangel is denying that he's stepping down as chairman of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee. A Democratic source, however, says Rangel is likely to "temporarily" relinquish his chair in wake of an ethic report that admonished him for taking two corporate paid trips. Rangel told reporters "you bet your ...
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A dictator-at-heart will take his dictatorial powers whereever, whenever, and however, he can get them. Passing this set of laws through reconciliation nullifies the Senate and the Constitutional amendment process. With regards to public opinion, his gambit is that simpletons will accept a simple majority vote without regard to Constitutional requirements. ABC News: Political Punch by Jake ...
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PITTSBURGH (AP)— A Pittsburgh woman has been sentenced to six to 12 years in state prison for beating her 12-year-old son so severely with a belt that he needed a skin graft and painkillers during a two-week hospital stay. Allegheny County Judge Randal Todd imposed the sentence Tuesday despite a plea for no prison time ...
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Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Politico: The Jim Bunning show may be coming to an end on the Senate floor. Senate Republicans say they’re negotiating a deal to get Bunning a vote on how to pay for the highway funding, health care and unemployment package Bunning has filibustered for four days ...
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NY Times: Gov. David A. Paterson appeared at the Capitol late on Tuesday afternoon after a day of private meetings at the Executive Mansion in Albany and offered a terse “no†when asked if he felt any pressure to resign in the face of a widening scandal over the embattled governor’s involvement in an abuse case ...
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Politico: House Democratic aides say the end may be near for Charles Rangel. Republicans plan to bring to the floor this week a resolution calling for Rangel’s ouster as chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, and Democratic aides say defections from vulnerable Democrats may give the GOP enough votes to prevail. “It’s going to ...
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ABC News: Otis McDonald, 76, is afraid for his life in his crime-saturated Chicago neighborhood and he is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn his city's strict ban on handguns in the home. "In my home, this is the only time I worry," McDonald said. "There's more guns coming into this city than the police can ...
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Times of London:: A self-styled Hindu holy man and a British Airways stewardess have been arrested in Delhi on suspicion of involvement in a multimillion-pound prostitution racket. Police said that Shiv Myra Dwivedi, a Hindu swami, used his temple in south Delhi as a front to provide as many as 200 prostitutes, including air hostesses and students, ...
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Thanks, as ususal to Feed Your ADHD for the weekly contribution: So ... Congresscriminal Charlie Rangel had his lawyer blast the House ethics panel last week for being "wrong on the facts and unsupported by the law," eh? He didn't know about the corporate financing, eh? It's not "good" that Rangel's been admonished, but The Wicked ...
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I think this sends a pretty strong message as to the state of America these days. The only justice these scumbags can get now is out of the business end of a .44 magnum, which hell, would be preferable to the alternative. The justice system is now a charade, a puppet controlled by the left-wing ...
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The Federal Bureau of Investigation said on Monday it was investigating along with local authorities a possible "hazardous material threat" at an Internal Revenue Service building in Farr West, Utah. U.S. In a statement e-mailed to Reuters, spokeswoman Debbie Dujanovic Bertram said the FBI had evacuated the building, adding she could not release ...
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