politics
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GOP says ban on invasive snakes is 'job killer'
The Obama administration wants to strangle job growth in America like some kind of giant, prosperity-choking python, mostly by banning the importation of said pythons, says a new GOP report.
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Food fighters: Don't give up on the farm bill
The upcoming farm bill won't be the watershed moment we've been waiting for. But it still provides an opportunity for food reformers to become sophisticated policy players.
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Mitt Romney's energy policy crafted by coal-funded shill
It should surprise no one that Mitt Romney's pro-coal, anti-carbon regulations energy plan was crafted by a coal zombie, but here are the deets anyway: Jim Talent, a key Romney advisor, leads a lobbying firm that took $125,000 from Peabody Energy to promote coal-related interests.
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Fiddling while his state burns isn't just a metaphor for Perry, says Thomas Friedman
Oh look -- America's most-read liberal just devoted an entire column to climate change, or should we say climate weirding. It's nice to see the talking points we feed you, our climate hawk minions, repeated so succinctly in a national forum. There were even a few new ones we hadn't thought of yet:
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Food safety breakthrough: USDA declares 'Big Six' E. coli strains illegal
Until today, six strains of the pathogen -- known to cause almost 40,000 illnesses, 1,100 hospitalizations, and 30 deaths annually -- were legal in meat.
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How Obama kinda completely missed the boat in his jobs speech
Let's you and me sit down and have some RealTalk™ for a minute: President Obama's jobs speech last night was about as good as it could get -- in the absence of any mention of the core driver of our ongoing global economic recession, which, need I remind you, is probably going to go double-dip.
Here's what he left out, neatly described in a hip, watchable video produced by the folks at the Post Carbon Institute.
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Superweeds go mainstream
Yikes. Even the business press has begun to notice that pesticide-resistant "superweeds" are dangerous.
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Stamping out hunger with fast food?
As surprising as it sounds, the recent flurry of responses to a program that makes fast food available with food stamps might be unfounded.
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Surprise! Americans are drinking A LOT of soda
On average, Americans now get nearly 10 percent of their calories from soda and other sugary beverages.