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Obama speech to focus on jobs, economy and little else

By: Julie Mason 01/24/11 9:05 PM
President Obama is expected to continue revising his annual State of the Union speech until right before he delivers it -- and what he leaves out is likely to reveal as much as what he includes. Obama will "spend most of his time talking about the economy," said White House press secretary Robert Gibbs, and "talking about the challenges that we face both in the short term in terms of doing whatever we can to help create jobs ... Read More

Muchof Obama's agenda in hands of courts

By: Julie Mason 12/14/10 9:05 PM
Obama in court Health care reform is not the only Obama administration policy tied up i Read More

Muchof Obama's agenda in hands of courts

By: Julie Mason 12/14/10 9:05 PM
Obama in court Health care reform is not the only Obama administration policy tied up i Read More

Sharp Park faces ecological legal action

By: Kamala Kelkar 12/11/10 3:20 PM
Environmental groups are for a second time warning The City they will sue because the threatened frog and endangered snake populations near Sharp Park Golf Course in Pacifica are vulnerable. The pending litigation issued on Nov. 17 by six environmental groups — Wild Equity Institute, Center for Biological Diversity, National Parks Conservation Association and three others — accuses the city of San Francisco of violating the Endangered Species Act. Read More

More evidence that economy is stalled because of Washington, Big Green policies

By: Mark Tapscott 12/11/10 6:49 AM
A new analysis of government data by the Western Energy Alliance shows a 79 percent drop in the number of energy development leases offered by the federal government on public lands in the Rocky Mountain region states of Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, North Dakota, New Mexico and Utah. Read More

Democrats trying for massive federal land and water grab in lame duck

By: Mark Hemingway 12/06/10 12:16 PM
Politico reports that Democrats are scrambling to wrap over a hundred bills involving asserting federal authority over land and water usage into a massive omnibus bill: Read More

The road to dependency on overseas oil: The astroturf campaign against Canadian oil sands

By: Mark Hemingway 12/02/10 12:32 PM
In their neverending quest to end energy production in North America, big environmental groups are waging a pitched battle over a road in Idaho and Montana. Read More

James R. Mason: Oil spill commission must put progress ahead of politics

By: James R. Mason 11/07/10 10:00 PM
Many parallels can be drawn between Washington’s response to Lehman Brothers’ collapse two years ago and its reaction to the British Petroleum catastrophe this summer. Our federal leaders used Lehman’s bankruptcy and the subsequent economic fallout as a springboard for unrelated, dubious financial regulation like much of the 2,300-page Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. Read More

Voters say no to Dems who pushed carbon tax (Updated)

By: Matthew Sheffield 11/01/10 7:00 PM
One of the more inexplicable votes that soon-to-be-former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi forced on her Democratic caucus was on the issue of carbon rationing. Despite there being no public demand for it and no chance of anything similar to the Waxman-Markey climate bill passing in the Senate, Pelosi nonetheless impelled Democrats to vote for it. Read More

Manmade Disaster

By: Nate Beeler 10/10/10 12:00 AM
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