Obama allies’ interests collide over Keystone pipeline
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on October 17th, 2011 4:35 am by HL
Obama allies’ interests collide over Keystone pipeline
In May, environmental writer and activist Bill McKibben — pondering a simmering energy issue — asked a NASA scientist to calculate what it would mean for the Earth’s climate if Canada extracted all of the petroleum in its rich Alberta oil sands region.
The answer to McKibben’s query came a month later: It would push atmospheric carbon concentrations so high that humans would be unable to avert a climate disaster. “It is essentially game over,” wrote James E. Hansen, who heads NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies and is one of the nation’s leading voices against fossil fuel energy.
Cain defends ‘9-9-9’ tax overhaul plan
Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain acknowledged Sunday that some Americans would see a tax increase under his “9-9-9” plan, but insisted that “most people will pay less” under his proposal to overhaul of the country’s tax code.
Surging in national polls, the pizza magnate who casts himself as an outsider found himself on the defensive over his tax plan during a 25-minute appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
Rick Perry takes military-style tack to protect Texas border from Mexican cartels
AUSTIN — A little before dawn on a sticky summer night in June, one of Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s Ranger Reconnaissance Teams was running a clandestine operation along the Rio Grande when its surveillance squad came across a Dodge Durango pickup truck loaded with bales of Mexican marijuana.
Bad idea, messing with Texas.
Perry and Romney dominate the GOP field in fundraising
If money is what really matters in politics, the Republican presidential contest is already a two-man race.
Rick Perry and Mitt Romney are sitting on four times as much cash as the rest of the GOP field combined, giving them a commanding edge in resources in the final weeks before Republican voters begin casting ballots, according to new campaign disclosure reports.
