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Robert S. Eshelman writes in The Nation : Where's the Clean Energy? : It was in Germany that Ed Regan realized Gainesville, Florida, was going about things all wrong. The assistant manager at Gainesville Regional Utility (GRU) was out looking for ways to boost his city's renewable energy ...
World
Gene Green
Germany
On this TCCIF*, the rangers are srkp23, vcmvo2, dadanation, ybruti, blank frank, and jlms qkw waved the editor's wand. *Thank Ceiling Cat It's Friday Please celebrate good writing with us and show these diarists some love - commenting, recommending, and subscribing are all appropriate! ...
World
The weekend beckons.... CA-Sen: Boxer Maintains Solid Edge, Even in Ras Poll Given that the Rasmussen poll in question had some data that hinted at a GOP skew (the 55% job approval for President Obama, for example), the news on the Senate race has to be considered very good news for ...
White House
Republican National Committee
Via Grist , the caption reads "EVERYDAY HUMBLE SUPPLIES ENOUGH ENERGY TO MELT 7 MILLION TONS OF GLACIER!" Reportedly from a 1962 edition of Life Magazine -- no way to tell for sure without an original copy of that edition. Humble Oil merged with Standard Oil which underwent various name and ...
Other
Keith Olbermann rips News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch for denying that he had accused President Obama of making racist comments: Unfortunately for Murdoch, he did accuse Pres. Obama of making racist comments, and Keith plays the video. It’s bad enough that Rupert Murdoch would ...
White House
Glenn Beck
Keith Olbermann
Barack Obama
Standish, Michigan, tells Liz Cheney to sell it up the street: Officials in a small Michigan town featured in a new video about Guantanamo by Liz Cheney’s national security group want her to know that they’re not falling for her “fearmongering” — and tell us they ...
White House
Dick Cheney
Guantanamo Bay
Barack Obama
What's coming up on Sunday Kos .... Behind the scenes, United States and Russian negotiators have been hard at work hammering out a new START , or Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty. The Treaty expires on December 5, 2009, and it looks like neither of the legislative bodies in either country ...
World
Iran
United States
From the GREAT STATE OF MAINE... This Late Night Snark Has 60 Votes: "Former Vice President Dick Cheney slammed President Obama for bowing before the Emperor of Japan. Cheney said, 'C’mon, it’s not like he’s the CEO of Exxon.'" ---Conan O'Brien - "[Sarah] Palin says ...
White House
Research 2000 for Daily Kos. 11/16/2009-11/19/2009. All adults. MoE 2% (Last weeks results in parentheses): FAVORABLE UNFAVORABLE NET CHANGE PRESIDENT OBAMA 55 (56) 39 (38) -2 PELOSI: 40 (39) 51 (52) +2 REID: 32 (32) 58 (57) -2 McCONNELL: 14 (15) 68 (67) -2 BOEHNER: 13 (14) 65 ...
Congress
Gallup Poll
Nancy Pelosi
And so it goes : A planned November hearing by the US Senate Armed Services Committee to consider ending a ban on gays serving openly in the US military will be postponed, a spokeswoman indicated Friday. "We do not have a date" for the hearing, said the aide, Tara Andringa. Too busy, full ...
Congress
Carl Levin
Organizing for America (OFA) has announced the winner of their Health Reform Video Challenge : OFA will : ... air the ad on national cable and in D.C. beginning Monday, in an effort to up the moral and emotional urgency of the health care debate with the message that the lives of an ...
White House
Organizing For America
Health care
Washington, D.C
As both Kevin K. and Dave Weigel noted earlier today, Sarah Palin angered and disappointed fans in Noblesville, Indiana yesterday when she abruptly left a book signing promotion even though there were many fans still waiting in line to receive her signature on their newly purchased copies of ...
White House
Sarah Palin
Tenants are still "Lost in the Shuffle" when the foreclosure notices arrive. Facts are stupid things department : Testifying as an expert on the stimulus Thursday, Dick Armey admitted before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee that he not only had not read the piece of the ...
World
Mike Lillis of TWI: Reid, Baucus Approve Wyden’s ‘Free Choice’ Proposal Senate Democratic leaders have amended their newly released health reform bill to include a contentious provision allowing some workers to receive cash vouchers toward exchange coverage in lieu of ...
Congress
Ron Wyden
Health care
So Fox conducts a poll on whether or not Americans approve of President Obama's bow while meeting the Emperor of Japan. Given that they attacked President Obama mercilessly over the bow on Monday, it's likely they wanted to excoriate him once again, this time using poll results showing how much ...
World
Gallup Poll
Japan
Don't Arizonians know that he's a war hero? Senator John McCain’s future in the U.S. Senate may be a little less assured than previously thought. A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of likely 2010 Republican Primary voters in Arizona finds the longtime incumbent in a virtual tie ...
Congress
John McCain
Chris Simcox
Sarah Palin
The good news on the Senate version of the public option is (beyond the fact that there is one included in the bill, making conference that much easier) that it uses the essential components of the HELP version of the public option, with a few minor changes . The core of the public option ...
Other
They just don't make them any crazier than Glenn Beck: Transcript (new line signals edit point): What's in this legislation? The end of America as you know it, I believe. We are taking about massive, sweeping change. American's showed up by the hundreds of ...
White House
Glenn Beck
Barack Obama
...I meant in the election, not necessarily in life. That is for others to debate. What can be said now definitively, however, is that in the election held two-plus weeks ago, Democrat Bill Owens was properly elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, while de facto GOP nominee Doug Hoffman ...
Congress
The first floor vote on the Senate HCR bill will happen Saturday evening, after a long day of speechifying, but without having to hear bill read aloud. Chances are pretty good the 60 will be there to at least allow the bill to be considered. Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) has agreed to relent on ...
