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Stephen Downing: Silence Says a Lot: An Open Letter to Google About Marijuana Legalization

In more than twenty years with the Los Angeles Police Department, where I retired as deputy chief of police, I saw a lot of puzzling behavior at close range. This week I saw some odd behavior from Google, YouTube and President Obama. Read more: Google , Law Enforcement Against Prohibition , Youtube , Leap , Marijuana Legalization , Marijuana , Google+ Hangouts , Video , Barack Obama , Obama Google Plus Hangout , Google Plus , Google+ , President Obama , Drug Policy Reform , Drug Policy , Politics News Continue reading

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Corbin Hiar: Money for Nothing? TransCanada Blew $1.3 Million on Federal Lobbying for Keystone XL in 2011

TransCanada, the pipeline company pushing the recently rejected Keystone XL project, spent $410,000 on federal lobbying during the last three months of 2011 — a new quarterly high for the company. Continue reading

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Obama Takes To Nevada And Colorado To Talk Energy, Expanding Drilling In The Gulf

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will double down on his “all-of-the-above” energy strategy on Thursday when he announces the Interior Department’… Read more: Gulf Drilling , Interior Department , Drilling Lease Obama , Obama Energy , Obama Offshore Drilling , Boemre , Green , Obama , Energy Policy , Las Vegas , Colorado , Gulf of Mexico Drill , Drilling , Interior Secretary Ken Salazar , Natural Gas , All of the Above Energy , BP Oil Spill , Gulf of Mexico , State of the Union , Green News Continue reading

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Obama Takes To Nevada And Colorado To Talk Energy, Expanding Drilling In The Gulf

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will double down on his “all-of-the-above” energy strategy on Thursday when he announces the Interior Department’… Read more: Gulf Drilling , Interior Department , Drilling Lease Obama , Obama Energy , Obama Offshore Drilling , Boemre , Green , Obama , Energy Policy , Las Vegas , Colorado , Gulf of Mexico Drill , Drilling , Interior Secretary Ken Salazar , Natural Gas , All of the Above Energy , BP Oil Spill , Gulf of Mexico , State of the Union , Green News Continue reading

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Is Industry Pressure Delaying Safety Rule At White House?

WASHINGTON — A long-awaited federal rule designed to protect workers in the construction and mining industries has been tied up in red tape at the Wh… Read more: White House , Silicosis , Workers , Crystalline Silica , Silica , Silica Rule , Office of Management and Budget , Labor Department , Elections 2012 , Department of Labor , Worker Safety , Osha , Safety Regulations , Barack Obama , Video , Politics News Continue reading

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School Lunches To Become Healthier With Veggies And Whole Grains

WASHINGTON — Schoolchildren’s favorite lunch – the ubiquitous frozen pizza – is about to get healthier. Continue reading

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Hillary Clinton ‘Rejected’ Obama’s 2011 State Department Budget: The New Yorker

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton “rejected” President Obama’s proposed 2011 budget for her department, according to a memo obtained by the New Yorke… Read more: Iraq War , Foreign Operations , Video , New Yorker , Budget Cuts , Budget , Hillary Clinton , Embassy Baghdad , State Department Budget , State Department , Barack Obama , Afghanistan War , Politics News Continue reading

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Corbin Hiar: Why the Keystone XL Rejection Won’t Stop Tar Sands Development

The Obama administration’s decision Wednesday to reject a pipeline that would have carried crude from Canada’s tar sands deposits to Texas oil refineries isn’t likely to end investment in the carbon-rich fuel, industry analysts say. Read more: Tar Sands , Transcanada , Obama , Oil Industry , Canada , State Department , Keystone XL Pipeline , Green News Continue reading

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Lloyd Chapman: President Obama’s Claim About Shrinking Government is a Publicity Stunt

President Obama’s latest claim that he’s going to shrink government by combining the Small Business Administration with the Department of Commerce is laughable. Read more: Dog-and-Pony Show , Lloyd Chapman , President , Federal Small Business Contracting Programs , President Obama , Federal Infrastructure Spending , SBA Merger , Jobs , Shrinking Government , Department of Commerce , Karen Mills , Streamlining Government , Small Business Administration , Federal Spending , Unemployment , Minority-Owned Small Business , American Small Business League , Federal Contracting , Consolidation Authority Act , National Press Conference , Pentagon Budget , Federal Agency , Small Business , Economy , Small Business Act , Business News Continue reading

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GOP Warms To Obama’s Plan To Trim And Merge

WASHINGTON — Congressional Republicans are cautiously embracing President Barack Obama’s proposal for shrinking the size of the federal government, a… Read more: Dave Camp , Mitch McConnell , John Boehner , Republicans Smaller Government , Government Consolidation , Government Spending , Max Baucus , Commerce Department , Orrin Hatch , Small Government , Us Trade Representative , Barack Obama , Eric Cantor , Smaller Government , Obama Smaller Government , Politics News Continue reading

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