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One year in, GOP Solyndra investigation remains a gigantic nothingburger
One year after it started, the GOP investigation into Solyndra has found ... nothing. And independent analysts have found that the DOE loan guarantee program is on track and under budget. But Republicans aren't letting the facts stop their crusade.
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Hillary Clinton is tackling climate change whether you like it or not
Clinton announced a new initiative to start attacking "short-lived climate pollutants" -- otherwise known as "everything except carbon dioxide."
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Symphony of Santorum: Megadeth’s Dave Mustaine supports Rick
This calls for double devil horns, y'all: Megadeth's frontman just came out in support of GOP candidate Rick Santorum for president. One thing's for sure: Mitt Romney's sweating bullets.
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Why Ron Paul, elderly libertarian crank, turns young voters on
Paul's radical policy prescriptions rankle many -- but the perennial outsider candidate is winning an alienated generation's heart.
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Oil shale drilling another terrible aspect of GOP transportation bill
Yet another reason why the Republican transportation bill sucks: It would open up more land to oil shale mining -- a destructive and not-commercially feasible technology.
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Non-starter: Republican transportation bill is dead on arrival
Republican leaders in the House of Representatives, seemingly intent on driving the country into a ditch, have thrown together a “uniquely terrible” transportation bill. A growing chorus of critics says the legislation is far from roadworthy.
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Santorum warns of ‘reign of environmental terror’
Rick Santorum's latest approach to environmental conservation seems to be that liberals are a form of psychological terrorists, using guilt and science to distort the truth and frighten real Americans into sheeplike compliance.
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Rick Santorum is literally the worst
Santorum swamped Romney (sorry) at two caucuses and a nonbinding primary yesterday, suggesting that his candidacy is a less funny joke than previously thought. Well whatever, they’ve clearly been playing King of the Mountain all campaign season, knocking each other off the top of the dung heap — at this point, do we care which […]
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Watch President Obama shoot a marshmallow cannon
Sometimes, even when there’s a Democratic president, I worry about science policy — whether there will be sufficient funding for research and education, whether the administration is soliciting and heeding feedback from scientists on subjects like climate, that sort of thing. And then I see the genuine delight on President Obama’s face as he helps […]
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World’s most environmentally outspoken president forced to resign at gunpoint
Mohamed Nasheed, president of the climate change-threatened Maldives, was forced to step down from office -- at gunpoint.
