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Obama Administration Ready To Make Loans To Nuclear Power Industry (CNBC/Reuters)
The Obama administration is poised to announce loan guarantees to help kick-start the country’s nuclear power industry, which hasn’t built a new plant in more than three decades.
Congress authorized $18.5 billion for nuclear loan guarantees in 2005, hoping to revive development of the carbon-free source of energy. Investments in nuclear power has dried up on [...]
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger – Opinion: Local Governments Can Lead Fight Against Climate Change (Huffington Post)
Leaders from around the world gather, in a quest for a global pact to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions and tackle the single greatest challenge of our time.
I am joining them, to discuss the urgency of their efforts, the economic opportunities we can seize, and the tremendous role of subnational governments in climate-change mitigation.
Some pundits have described [...]
THE STORY YOU WON’T HEAR ON CNN: U.S. intelligence: ‘Time Is Running Out’ In Afghanistan (McClatchy)
KABUL — As the U.S. and its allies try to overcome logistical hurdles and rush some 40,000 more troops to Afghanistan in 2010, intelligence officials are warning that the Taliban-led insurgency is expanding and that “time is running out” for the U.S.-led coalition to prove that its strategy can succeed.
The Taliban have created a shadow [...]
Al Qaeda Claims Responsibility For Twarted Airline Attack: Obama & Co. Defend Themselves From Growing Criticism (The New York Times)
President Obama emerged from Hawaiian seclusion on Monday to try to quell gathering criticism of his administration’s handling of the thwarted Christmas Day bombing of an American airliner as a branch of Al Qaeda claimed responsibility.
“We will not rest until we find all who were involved and hold them accountable,” Mr. Obama told reporters during [...]
3 Ways To Beat Credit Card Debt (Bankrate Debt Advisor)
Dear Debt Adviser,
I have been with a large national bank for approximately 50 years, with a checking account, savings account and a credit card. I have always paid on time and pay way more than the minimum required each month on my credit card. The problem is that I just received a notice from the [...]
Twice As Many U.S. Soldiers Died In Afghanistan In ‘09 As In ‘08 (AFP)
KABUL — A bomb attack killed a US service member in Afghanistan, NATO said Sunday, doubling the number of American soldiers killed in the country this year compared with 2008, according to an AFP tally.
The NATO-run International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said the soldier died from an improvised explosive device (IED), the biggest killer of [...]
Health Care Bill Update: Closing The Medicare ‘Doughnut Hole’ Will Actually Cost Seniors (Washington Post)
Six years after Congress added a prescription drug benefit to Medicare, Democrats in the House and Senate are poised to make a central change that they and most older Americans have wanted all along: getting rid of a quirk that forces millions of elderly patients with especially high expenses for medicine to pay for much [...]
Napolitano Tells Today Show “Air Security System Failed” (Washington Post)
The system aimed at keeping air travel secure failed when a Nigerian man who was suspected of ties to militants managed to smuggle explosives aboard a flight, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said on Monday.
“It did,” Napolitano said in an interview on NBC’s Today Show, when asked if the system “failed miserably.”
“And that’s why [...]
Richard Grenell/Opinion: Obama’s Popularity Isn’t Translating Into Progress (The Huffington Post)
Fmr. director of comm. and public diplomacy for the US Representative to the UN
The White House staff should never allow Barack Obama to go to Copenhagen again. The last time Obama went to Copenhagen the United States was turned down from the 2016 Olympic bidding process in the first round. This last week, Obama went [...]
Few Changes For Millions In Health Bill (The New York Times/MSNBC)
Now that the Senate has caught up with the House by passing a sweeping health care bill, lawmakers are on the verge of extending coverage to the tens of millions of Americans who have no health insurance.
But what about the roughly 160 million workers and their dependents who already have health insurance through an employer? [...]
