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Despite sequester, DOD signs contract for $59/gallon green jet fuel
Joel Gehrke
Updated: Thu, May 2, 2013
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel recently warned that sequestration would cause “suspension of important activities, curtailed training, and could result in furloughs of civilian personnel” but the spending cuts haven’t killed the green fuels program, as the Pentagon has continued purchasing...
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Another lawsuit filed for EPA official’s private emails
Joel Gehrke
Updated: Thu, May 2, 2013
Yet another Environmental Protection Agency official used his private email account to conduct government business, according to a lawsuit from the watchdog that has recently exposed similar transparency violations at the agency. The Competitive Enterprise Institute filed a lawsuit to see...
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CBS/NYT poll: 49 percent of Americans think legal immigration raises terrorist threat
Joel Gehrke
Updated: Wed, May 1, 2013
Lawmakers have debated whether the Boston Marathon attack justifies slowing the immigration bill’s passage, but a recent poll raises the possibility that the attack dealt a blow to the bill’s proponents, as almost half of Americans think legal immigration increases the nation’s...
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Cruz pushes back at 2016 rumors, but asks for campaign money
Joel Gehrke
Published: Wed, May 1, 2013
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, poured cold water on a report that he’s interested in running for president in 2016 today, but his Senate campaign aides sent out a fundraising appeal to grassroots supporters. “In my short tenure, my focus has been — and will remain — on two things: fighting...
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White House keeps distance from FDA’s Plan B decision
Joel Gehrke
Published: Wed, May 1, 2013
President Obama had nothing to do with the Federal Drug Administration’s decision to sell Plan B as an over-the-counter drug to women aged 15 and older, his spokesman told reporters. “This is a decision that the FDA made and that is appropriate because it is an independent agency,” White...
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Vitter: Former EPA boss posed as her own assistant in ‘Richard Windsor’ emails
Joel Gehrke
Published: Wed, May 1, 2013
Sen. David Vitter, R-La., said today that former Environmental Protection Agency administrator Lisa Jackson used her “Richard Windsor” alias email account to pose as her own assistant when dealing with outside groups, adding that she also used the account to correspond with White House...
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Issa: New Benghazi hearing will ‘expose new facts’ Obama ‘has tried to suppress’
Joel Gehrke
Published: Wed, May 1, 2013
With whistle-blowers interested in discussing the Benghazi terrorist attack, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., scheduled a hearing that he promises will “expose” new information that President Obama “has tried to suppress.” The hearing is...
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Issa: Obama ‘aids those’ who are intimidating Benghazi whistle-blowers
Joel Gehrke
Published: Tue, Apr 30, 2013
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., accused President Obama of “aid[ing] those in his Administration who are intimidating” potential Benghazi whistle-blowers, because Obama pleaded ignorance when asked about the issue today. “Even if the...
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Obama: Obamacare will have ‘glitches and bugs’ like ‘every government program’
Joel Gehrke
Updated: Tue, Apr 30, 2013
President Obama said that Republican opposition in Congress and state governments “makes it harder” to implement Obamacare, which he said is already implemented for 85 percent of Americans. Obama said that the parts of the law that affect the most Americans have already taken effect....
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California lawsuit would relieve nonunion teachers of paying dues
Joel Gehrke
Published: Tue, Apr 30, 2013
Ten teachers and the Christian Educators Association International are suing to block a California law requiring teachers to pay union dues even if they aren’t union members, a lawsuit that could potentially weaken some of the most powerful unions in the state. The Center for Individual...
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