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3.31.2012

Huh? Christlikeness: 'Getting ahead,' or 'rising others up?: In Romney's California Mansion, Cars Get Their Own Elevator ThinkProgress


In Romney's California Mansion, Cars Get Their Own Elevator

ThinkProgress -
By Joe Romm on Mar 27, 2012 at 12:21 pm For Mitt Romney, who's in the 1% of the 1%, that means a “four-car fantasy home,” as Politico put it after seeing the amazing blueprints for Romney's proposed California beach house.

GOP War on all Creation: Brzezinski Assails Romney for Lacking 'Grasp' of Foreign Policy San Francisco Chronicle


Brzezinski Assails Romney for Lacking 'Grasp' of Foreign Policy

San Francisco Chronicle -
No evidence of an Iraqi nuclear weapons program was found after the US invaded Iraq in 2003. Romney's comments on Iran, Brzezinski said, "are just so casual, and at the same time so militant, that one has to wonder whether he'll feel bound by what he ...

Why Gas Prices Are Out of Any President's Control New York Times


Why Gas Prices Are Out of Any President's Control

New York Times -
EVERYONE knows it's dangerous to ingest gasoline or to inhale its fumes. But I am starting to believe that merely thinking about the price of gasoline can damage cognitive processing.

NYT Krugman: How is Mandate to buy More Intrusive than Tax? Huh?


Congress gets rough treatment at Supreme Court

Atlanta Journal Constitution -
By MARK SHERMAN AP WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court left little doubt during last week's marathon arguments over President Barack Obama's health care overhaul that it has scant faith in Congress' ability to get anything done.

3.29.2012

Good Lord. Romney jokes about dad's decision to close Detroit auto plant The Detroit News

Romney jokes about dad's decision to close Detroit auto plant

The Detroit News -
By David Shepardson Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney speaks during an event at NuVasive, a maker of devices intended to improve spinal care, in San Diego on Monday.
Romney's Stand-Up Routine
Mitt Romney amuses Wisconsin voters with yarn about Michigan losing an auto plant
Romney's joke about father's factory closure falls flat
Romney to visit Fitchburg Saturday

3.25.2012

GOP Ignoring Its Own Climate Scientists About Climate Change Huffington Post

GOP Ignoring Its Own Climate Scientists About Climate Change

Huffington Post -
According to a fascinating article by Katherine Bagley prosaically titled "GOP Not Listening to its Own Climate Scientists on Climate Change," a group of prominent conservative scientists, many of them evangelicals, approached conservative politicians ...

3.13.2012

Obama Campaign Fears Uphill Climb Raising 'Super PAC' Money New York Times

Obama Campaign Fears Uphill Climb Raising 'Super PAC' Money

New York Times -
The warning came from David Plouffe, President Obama's top political adviser: The Koch brothers and Republican “super PACs” have pledged hundreds of millions of dollars to defeat Mr.

Poll: 7 in 10 Americans want to outlaw super PACs USA TODAY

Poll: 7 in 10 Americans want to outlaw super PACs

USA TODAY -
By Catalina Camia, USA TODAY Americans aren't in love with super PACs, the new independent groups that are transforming the 2012 presidential election.
Poll: 69% of Americans say outlaw super PACs
Super PAC challenge: Congress

Oil and Gas Ind War on US: API sues EPA over biofuelsUPI.com

Energy Trade Group Challenges EPA Biological Additive Rule

Bloomberg -
An oil and gas industry trade association asked a federal appeals court to review a US Environmental Protection Agency regulation governing fuel additives including biological materials.
API sues EPA over biofuels
API Files Lawsuit Against EPA For 'Unachievable' Cellulosic

Rick Santorum: 'Tell That To A Plant, me, for example, How Dangerous Carbon Dioxide Is' (VIDEO) Huffington Post

Rick Santorum: 'Tell That To A Plant, me, for example, How Dangerous Carbon Dioxide Is' (VIDEO)

Huffington Post -
Back in early February, he targeted Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich for allegedly buying into the "bogus" science of man-made climate change.

Climate-change skeptics paid by U.S. think-tank The Province

Climate-change skeptics paid by U.S. think-tank

The Province -
By Mike Desouza, Postmedia News March 12, 2012 9:00 PM Federal Environment Minister Peter Kent refuses to comment on revelations that climate-change skeptics in Canada are get-ting money from an American think-tank funded by corporations.
US think tank funds Canadian climate skeptics
Tories tight-lipped about cash for climate skeptics