Article Source – www.cagw.org Author – David Williams Even if many Americans don’t think that the stimulus package is working, there is still a desire to ensure that the money is being spent wisely rather than being thrown down a rat hole. But, the news that is trickling out from the states does not look [...]
Article Source – www.cagw.org Author – Erica Gordon This summer’s tea parties and town hall meetings drew hundreds of thousands across the nation. Although there were many issues of concern including healthcare, cap-and-trade, and the general overspending problems in Washington, citizens were united by one common goal: to remind members of Congress that they work [...]
Article Source – www.bbc.co.uk Author – Justin Rowlatt <img src=”http://www.citris-uc.org/files/cop_logo_1_r.jpg” width=300 height=1200/> There are just 42 days left until the world’s environment ministers will sit down around the negotiating table in Copenhagen to try to agree a deal to begin to cut greenhouse gas emissions. The original objective for the conference was to produce a [...]
Article Source – wsj.com Author – Stephen Power WASHINGTON — With President Barack Obama bidding to overhaul the health-care system, tighten bank oversight and make industries pay for their greenhouse-gas emissions, some trade-association chiefs have decided to compromise with the party in power. Not Thomas Donohue. On many of Mr. Obama’s priorities, the president and [...]
Article Source – www.pbs.org Editorial Comments added House Democrats on Thursday unveiled the Affordable Health Care for America Act. The 1,990-page legislation is a combination of bills passed by three House committees earlier this year. Key tenets include: New regulations | New insurance industry regulations would prohibit insurers from rejecting customers based on pre-existing conditions. [...]
Article Source – news.bbc.co.uk Author – Paul Hudson This headline may come as a bit of a surprise, so too might that fact that the warmest year recorded globally was not in 2008 or 2007, but in 1998. But it is true. For the last 11 years we have not observed any increase in global [...]
Article Source – wsj.com Author – Neil King Jr. Montana Sen. Jon Tester, at a Stillwater Mine in Nye, Mont., is trying to protect the mine’s GM contract. Montana Rep. Denny Rehberg was no fan of the $58 billion federal rescue of General Motors Co., saying he worried taxpayer money would be wasted and the [...]
Article Source – wsj.com Author – Peter Landers House Speaker Nancy Pelosi made a point this morning about openness, saying of her health bill, “We are putting it online for all Americans to see.” Indeed, it is online, here. Still, we wonder how many Americans are going to get much enlightenment from tackling this 1,990-page [...]
Article Source – www.wnd.com Author – Ann Coulter The Democrats’ all-new “opt out” idea for health-care reform is the latest fig leaf for a total government takeover of the health-care system. Democrats tell us they’ve been trying to nationalize health care for 65 years, but the first anyone heard of the “opt out” provision was [...]
Article Source – bizjournals.com by Mike Sunnucks The American public is skeptical of health care reform plans being pushed by President Barack Obama. A new national poll by Rasmussen Reports shows 57 percent worry that if Obama’s health reforms pass, they will push up costs. Obama and congressional Democrats want to create a government health [...]
