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Obama fills econ team; says business will revive      (AP)
Obama fills econ team; says business will revive (AP)
AP - Completing his Cabinet a month before taking office, President-elect Barack Obama named officials to oversee transportation, labor, trade and small business policy Friday but warned that economic recovery won't be nearly as swift.
The Associated Press: Obama fills econ team, says business will revive
google.com — 16 hours ago CHICAGO (AP) Completing his Cabinet a month before taking office, President-elect Barack Obama named... officials to oversee transportation, labor, trade and small business policy Friday but warned that economic recovery won't be nearly as ... (more) The Associated Press: Obama fills econ team, says ...
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Obama Appoints a Pair of Lysenkos
MoonbatteryAP gets the prize for the weekend's most Orwellian lede: President-elect Barack Obama on Saturday named Harvard physicist John Holdren and marine biologist Jane Lubchenco to top science posts, signaling a change from Bush administration policies on global warming that were criticized for putting politics over science. Holdren appears to be a militant leftist first, a scientist sometime afterward. As NRO notes, as recently as 2006 Holdren was still spewing long discredited antihuman rhetoric borrowed from Paul Ehrlich's ...

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Power Line — ... On Saturday, Barack Obama named Harvard professor John Holdren director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Obama said: ...

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