“U.S. and global energy policy remains in the forefront of public debate, and I expect will remain there well into this decade,” said Jack Gerard, president of the American Petroleum Institute. “Unfortunately, too often lost in the sloganeering is the reality of what it will take to provide the nation with affordable, reliable energy and [...]
Entries from January 2010
State of the Energy Industry Confab Held in D.C.
January 13th, 2010 · No Comments
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States’ Unfunded Pension Obligations Top $360B
January 13th, 2010 · 2 Comments
State employee pension systems are facing severe shortfalls, and these growing liabilities threaten to drive many states deeper into the red, according to a new 50-state study released today by the American Legislative Exchange Council, the nation’s largest individual membership association of state legislators. In “State Pension Funds Fall Off a Cliff,” Drs. Barry Poulson [...]
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Rolling Stone Names Senator Inhofe ‘Climate Killer’
January 13th, 2010 · 1 Comment
Congratulations to Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) for making Rolling Stone‘s list of “Climate Killers” — that is, the group of “17 polluters and deniers who are derailing efforts to curb global warming.” Of course, he didn’t make the list as a “polluter.” Instead, he made it for helping expose the fraud and cooked-books science behind [...]
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Most Americans Believe Wealth Beyond Their Reach
January 13th, 2010 · 1 Comment
How’s all of that “hope and change” working out for you? Not too well, according to the just-released results of a new nationwide poll conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates International and released by Bankrate Inc. today. The poll results show that the majority of Americans think wealth is beyond their reach and that it [...]
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Physicians Say Government ‘Never Will’ Understand
January 13th, 2010 · 5 Comments
More than 40 percent of physicians participating in a single-question online poll said they feel the U.S. government “never will” understand how declining reimbursement rates from Medicare negatively affect the care patients receive from their physicians. According to a news release issued today by SERMO, the nation’s largest physician-only online community: (1) Physicians fear reimbursements [...]
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Disney Told to Include Ex-Gays in Policies
January 13th, 2010 · 1 Comment
The Security and Exchange Commission has directed the Walt Disney Company to accept a shareholder resolution requesting the inclusion of ex-gays in Disney’s sexual orientation policies and corporate diversity programs. Disney had opposed the ex-gay resolution and asked the SEC for permission to exclude it from stockholder consideration. “Like many corporations, Disney implements mandatory diversity [...]
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Glenn Beck Talks Unions, Health Plans, Socialists
January 12th, 2010 · 4 Comments
I was so happy to see Glenn Beck talk about labor unions, “Cadillac Health Plans” and the socialists involved in each during his show today on Fox News Channel. Why? Because, two months ago, I captured a half-dozen liberal heavyweights talking about those very subjects on video. Speaking before a crowd of ultra-liberal single-payer health [...]
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