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Health Reform: An Integrated Problem In An Integrated World
What have the Olympics, oil and commodity prices, and supply and demand have to do with either pandemic preparedness or health reform? And what do either have to do with politics? Pandemic preparedness is still an issue; pandemics are inevitable, and we are not yet prepared for one (follow the links... Full Article At Daily Kos
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Paula Gordon: Less-Dependence Day, July 4, 2008
Want to talk about Gas Prices this July 4th weekend? Great! For more than 30 years we've known what's required to recover from our oil-addiction. Tax carbon to fund alternatives, to reduce consumption and to reduce greenhouse emissions and... Full Article At HuffingtonPost
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Obama acceptance speech at Mile High Stadium?
There was talk about Dems shortening the Convention to three days, but now, talk is about doing "something different" on the last night. Could it be this ? What better place to accept the nomination for the most powerful job in the world? Invesco... Full Article At Daily Kos
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McCain reboots and gives rise to the Rovians
After effectively securing the Republican nomination in early February, and officially crossing the delegate threshold in early March, John McCain had plenty of time to shape a general ... Full Article At The Carpetbagger Report
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Patrick Takahashi: What About Free Hydrogen? Part 1
Over the next couple of Green posts I will discuss the matter of free hydrogen. Yes, just make hydrogen free by, say, 2020, and let industry, with government assistance, develop the Infrastructure and systems to handle the Age of Free Hydrogen... Full Article At HuffingtonPost
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Dominion to Sell Two Distributors
Dominion has agreed to sell two natural-gas distributors to an Infrastructure-investment fund that is a satellite of embattled Australian asset manager Babcock & Brown Ltd. for $910 million.... Full Article At Wall Street Journal: Politics and Policy
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Janet Ritz: Permafrost Threatened by Rapid Retreat of Arctic Sea Ice
A new study by the National Snow and Ice Data Center and the National Center for Atmospheric Research has warned that the integrity of carbon and methane sequestering permafrost is threatened by the rapid retreat of Arctic Sea Ice. This comes at the same time as warnings that this summer may see the... Full Article At HuffingtonPost
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$200 BARRELS AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA.
The LA Times has an interesting article on what will happen if oil prices hit $200. In short, activities that require lots of oil will become incredibly expensive. And in Southern California, just about all activities require lots of oil. Michael Woo, a member of Los Angeles's Planning Commission... Full Article At The American Prospect - Ezra Klein
THE LA SUBWAY.
As an addendum to that last post, it's worth remembering that there's no cosmic reason that Los Angeles doesn't have an integrated, comprehensive public transit ... Full Article At The American Prospect - Ezra Klein
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Today's Polls: Gallup Snaps Back Into Line
Hardly a full diet of polling today but just an amuse bouche. In Arizona, Rasmussen has the state's Senior Senator leading by 9 points; he had held a 20-point lead in Rasmussen's last Poll of ... Full Article At The New Republic
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Today in Congress/Open Thread
In the House, courtesy of the Majority Leader: House meets at 10 a.m. for Legislative Business 10 "one minutes" [ definition ] per side Last vote predicted: 5:00 - 6:00 p.m. H.R. 6052 – The Saving ... Full Article At Daily Kos
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Beijing Hotels Shockingly Empty Ahead of Games
BEIJING — The Olympics are looking like a bust for the city's hotels. The 17-day games were supposed to generate a buzz throughout the summer, leading to a tourism windfall with fully booked hotels and free-spending customers. Instead, Beijing's summer tourism season has been slow,... Full Article At HuffingtonPost
Shock of the Old
Belle Waring returns to the United States from Singapore where she lives: Boy, but America's Infrastructure looks baaad, people. And everything is dirty! The girls were like, what's wrong with this bridge? (a metal bridge in Jersey leading... Full Article At The Atlantic - Matthew Yglesias
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McCain’s Lost Spring
I’ll never understand why McCain spent this past spring, when Obama and Clinton were hammering each other, and did nothing to build his Infrastructure.... Full Article At Oliver Willis
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Progressive Infrastructure Is Working
Obama's lead over McCain continues to widen, now reaching 6.5% nationally according to Pollster.com . His lead is even larger, 7.3%, according to Real Clear Politics , equaling the largest lead Bush ever mounted on Kerry during the 2004 campaign... Full Article At Open Left
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John McQuaid: The Libertarian Disaster Recovery Fallacy
In the wake of the Midwest floods, we're about to embark on another long and fitful recovery and rebuilding effort. Given that and the post-Katrina mess in New Orleans - a morass of programs that either half-work, work too slowly or don'... Full Article At HuffingtonPost
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Donors must aid Palestinians: Rice - West Online
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice wants donor nations to make good on their commitments to the Palestinian Authority and help build the security Infrastructure needed for a viable... Full Article At Live Search News
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PDF: The Impact of the Internet on Politics and Journalism
The afternoon breakout session at the Personal Democracy Forum in New York is "Covering the "Click-ocracy": Tracking the Internet's Impact on Politics and Journalism". This is a fascinating... Full Article At eyeon08.com
