EPA Administrator McCarthy Visits Cleveland, Promotes New Carbon Regulations

ideastreamEPA Administrator McCarthy Visits Cleveland, Promotes New Carbon RegulationsideastreamAs the Obama Administration gives a final review to its proposal for new carbon-pollution standards, EPA is working on its ground game to build public support. That included a stopover in Cleveland this week by the head of EPA. Ideastream's Anne ...

What happens when public

Washington Post (blog)What happens when public-school students are promised a college educationWashington Post (blog)From left, Vice President-elect Biden, President-elect Obama and Arne Duncan, then chief executive officer of the Chicago public school system, speak to students at Dodge Renaissance Academy in Chicago in 2008. ... In 2005, the school board in ...

Energy state Dems in Senate races split from Obama

News & ObserverEnergy state Dems in Senate races split from ObamaNews & ObserverWest Virginians take the administration's proposed pollution rules on coal-fired plants, among other regulations, as an affront to the coal industry, an economic driver here that is perhaps even more important to the state's cultural identity. Tennant ...

Kill Bill: When Politicians Shoot Laws

New Yorker (blog)Kill Bill: When Politicians Shoot LawsNew Yorker (blog)A few months after Manchin unveiled his take on legislative-death-by-firing-squad, a gunman in Tucson killed six people and wounded thirteen others, including Representative Gabrielle Giffords. Reporters asked Manchin if he would make the ad again ...

As reform stalls, administration eyes acting on its own to ease deportations ...

Washington PostAs reform stalls, administration eyes acting on its own to ease deportations ...Washington PostBlack congresswomen ask Hagel to reconsider hairstyle regulations · She The .... The Obama administration is likely to take steps in coming weeks to ease the pace of deportations for some illegal immigrants and is also considering much broader changes ...

Obama's military budget mistake

The Week MagazineObama's military budget mistakeThe Week MagazineThe Obama administration understands that credible deterrence requires a military that can respond to threats. On the simplest level, this means that the military's current assets must be ready to deploy when ... Obama's fiscal year 2015 budget ...

Education “reformers” resort to Fox News

SalonEducation “reformers” resort to Fox News-style scaremongeringSalonThis happened most profoundly in a high-profile education dispute where Obama and his administration were nowhere to be seen, though they had done everything to set the stage, with their own brand of corporate education “reform”: Race To The Top. On ...

Obama now probes everyone's health – in Kenya!

WND.comObama now probes everyone's health – in Kenya!WND.comIn the latest addition to the Obama administration's growing aid-to-Kenya portfolio, the U.S. will help subsidize a nationwide citizen-health assessment in every Kenyan county without exception. While the estimated project cost remains undisclosed, a ...