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Shale boom may help lead U.S. to energy independence

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Seattle Times - By Kevin G.Hall - Dec. 23 (Opinion) - The United States could pass its 1970s peak as an oil-and-gas producer in less than a decade with the help of a shale formation in Pennsylvania.

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Cain's tax cut would give thousands back to the rich

Tue, 18 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

McClatchy - By Steven Thomma - Oct. 18 (News) - Herman Cain’s 9-9-9 tax plan would give every American making more than $1 million an average tax cut of $455,000, according to a new independent analysis. All Americans with incomes above $200,000 would get tax cuts under the Republican presidential candidate’s dramatic proposal, according to the analysis by the Tax Policy Center, a joint effort of the Urban Institute and Brookings Institution, both respected center-left policy-research centers. At the same time, those with incomes below $200,000 _ 84 percent of taxpayers _ would see their taxes increase under the Cain plan, according to the analysis, which is the first to look at precisely what would happen to different incomes under the proposal.

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Obama assertion: FBI can get phone records without oversight

Fri, 11 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

McClatchy - By Marisa Taylor - Feb. 11 (News Report) - The Obama administration's Justice Department has asserted that the FBI can obtain telephone records of international calls made from the U.S. without any formal legal process or court oversight, according to a document obtained by McClatchy. Read more: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/02/11/108562/obama-assertion-fbi-can-get-phone.html#ixzz1Dlu8N34K

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Mexican cartels amass better arsenals, mostly bought in U.S.

Thu, 18 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

McClatchy - By Tim Johnson - Nov. 18 (News Report) - As cartels build up their weapons stocks, a bloody new phase unfolds in a drug war that's already left nearly 30,000 victims since late 2006. "They are looking for the highest caliber, highest capacity weapon they can, because they are at war with the military" ....

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How Hank Paulson's Inaction Helped Goldman Sachs

Sun, 10 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

McClatchy - By Greg Gordon - Oct. 10 (Special Report) - Henry Paulson has received widespread acclaim for his bare-knuckled decision-making as the treasury secretary at the peak of the 2008 financial crisis, but former federal regulators say he missed multiple chances to contain the disaster.Among the prime beneficiaries of Paulson's inaction in 2006 and 2007 was Goldman Sachs, the investment banking behemoth he ran before he was named to former President George W. Bush's Cabinet.read more

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Researchers confirm subsea Gulf oil plumes are from BP well

Sat, 24 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

McClatchy - By Sara Kennedy - Jul. 24 (News Report) - Through a chemical fingerprinting process, University of South Florida researchers have definitively linked clouds of underwater oil in the northern Gulf of Mexico to BP's runaway Deepwater Horizon well — the first direct scientific link between the subsurface oil clouds commonly known as "plumes" and the BP oil spill, USF officials said Friday.

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Gulf recovered from last big oil spill, but is this one different?

Fri, 21 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

McClatchy - By Tim Johnson - May. 21 (News Report) - The Ixtoc 1 oil spill in Mexico's shallow Campeche Sound three decades ago serves as a distant mirror to today's BP deepwater blowout, and marine scientists are still pondering what they learned from its aftereffects.

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Why's Sen. McConnell trashing Wall Street regulation bill?

Sat, 17 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

McClatchy - By David Lightman, Halimah Abdullah - Apr. 17 (News) - Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell this week threw a rhetorical stick of dynamite into what had been a collegial debate about overhauling the nation's financial regulations, triggering criticism and confusion about what the usually careful Kentucky senator was doing.

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Not satisfied with U.S. history, some conservatives are rewriting it

Sun, 04 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

McClatchy - By Steven Thomma - Apr. 04 (News Report) - In articles and speeches, on radio and TV, conservatives are working to redefine major turning points and influential figures in American history, often to slam liberals, promote Republicans and reinforce their positions in today's politics.

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Tea Party Protesters Scream 'Nigger' at Rep. John Lewis

Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

McClatchy - By William Douglas - Mar. 20 (News Report) - John N. Lewis marched with Martin Luther King Jr. and they said it then, today Lewis is marching with Obama and they're saying it again.

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Democrats in Congress balk at Obama's debt outlook

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

McClatchy - By David Lightman - Feb. 03 (News Report) - President Barack Obama's 2011 budget got a cool - at times frosty - reception Tuesday from the lawmakers he needs most, as congressional Democrats offered a host of reasons they are skeptical of the White House plan.

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After review, scientists urge end to mountaintop mining

Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800

McClatchy - By Renee Schoof - Jan. 08 (News Report) - WASHINGTON — Scientific evidence that mountaintop-removal coal mining destroys streams and threatens human health is so strong that government should stop granting new permits for it, a group of 12 environmental scientists report...

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Army's new all-terrain vehicle debuts in Afghanistan

Thu, 24 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

McClatchy - By Thomas Day - Dec. 24 (Special Report) - On Afghanistan's rough dirt roads, however, the new $500,000 to $1 million Mine Resistant Ambush Protected All Terrain Vehicle is a major improvement over the massive Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicle it's replacing, soldiers say. The M-ATV is tailored to Afghanistan, at least parts of it, and the Pentagon is sending about 5,000 of them to the battlefield

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Bush birth control policies helped fuel Africa's baby boom

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

McClatchy - By Shashank Bengali - Dec. 15 (News Report) - At age 45, after giving birth to 13 children in her village of thatch roofs and bare feet, Beatrice Adongo made a discovery that startled her: birth control.

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Texas' gay marriage ban may have banned all marriages

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

McClatchy - By Dave Montgomery - Nov. 18 (News Report) - AUSTIN — Texans: Are you really married? Barbara Ann Radnofsky, a Houston lawyer and Democratic candidate for attorney general, says that a 22-word clause in a 2005 constitutional amendment designed to ban gay marriages erroneously endangers the legal status of all marriages in the state.

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Army study: Mental health staff lacking in Afghanistan

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

McClatchy - By Nancy A. Youssef - Nov. 15 (News Report) - An Army task force has found that a growing number of soldiers serving in Afghanistan are suffering from some kind of mental stress and is urging the military to double the number of mental health professionals deployed there.

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Farmers fight climate bill, but warming spells trouble for them

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

McClatchy - Nov. 02 (News Report) - Farm state senators and others soon will get a taste of what their colleagues from Missouri already have piled high on their desks: thousands of letters from farmers urging them to vote against the climate and energy bill. The Missouri Farm Bureau started the letter campaign early, weeks before the bill was fully written and made public. It was followed in October with a pitch from the American Farm Bureau, the nation's largest agriculture lobby, to get farmers to take farm caps, sign their bills and send them to senators with notes that say, "Don't cap our future."

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Women getting short end of health coverage

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Miami Herald - By David Lightman - Oct. 07 (Special Report) - Women of child-bearing age routinely pay more for healthcare because they're women. If they're pregnant, they can be legally denied coverage. Women face other problems in today's insurance market: They tend to need more preventive care and therefore are subject to more co-pays and deductibles, and single heads of households are often women, meaning they're responsible for the family's healthcare bills. Legislation now being considered by Congress to overhaul America's healthcare system would dramatically change the rules, and there's general agreement that this is a problem that needs fixing.

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Eight States Still Allow Insurance Companies To Use Domestic Violence As Pre-Existing Condition

Sun, 04 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

McClatchy - By Les Blumenthal - Oct. 04 (News) - Eight states and the District of Columbia don't have laws that specifically bar insurance companies from using domestic violence as a pre-existing condition to deny health coverage, according to a study from the National Women's Law Center.

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Who's behind the attacks on a health care overhaul?

Sat, 15 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

McClatchy - Aug. 15 (News Analysis) - Much of the money and strategy behind the so-called grassroots groups organizing opposition to the Democrats' health care plans comes from conservative political consultants, professional organizers and millionaires, some of whom hold financial stakes in the outcome.

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Forging a new path to real health care reform

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

McClatchy - By Dr. Harold S. Luft - Jun. 30 (Opinion) - As specific health care reform proposals begin to emerge, the predictable partisan critiques are appearing. This back-and-forth is a necessary part of the democratic process, but we must agree our system is broken and seize this opportunity for real reform. Two major objectives need to be achieved. First, all Americans should have coverage for at least major health care expenditures. Second, we must bring down the rate of increase in health care expenses. The first is a moral imperative, the second an economic necessity.

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Egyptians worry that Obama will inadvertently bless repression

Tue, 02 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

McClatchy - By Dion Nissenbaum - Jun. 02 (News Report) - Cairo prepares to welcome President Barack Obama on Thursday, when he's scheduled to deliver a major speech to the Arab world, politicians such as Nour are growing increasingly concerned that Obama will sacrifice democratic reforms in Egypt to shore up Mubarak in pursuit of the American president's broader Middle East agenda.

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For all the debate about interrogation, little research exists

Sat, 30 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

McClatchy - By Barbara Barrett - May. 30 (News Analysis) - The heated debate in recent weeks about harsh interrogation treatments at Guantanamo Bay and elsewhere highlights what some scientists have been warning the U.S. for years: that almost no research exists to tell interrogators the best way to get information out of suspected terrorists.

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America's poor are its most generous donors

Sat, 23 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

McClatchy - By Frank Greve - May. 23 (Special Report) - When Jody Richards saw a homeless man begging outside a downtown McDonald's recently, he bought the man a cheeseburger. There's nothing unusual about that, except that Richards is homeless, too, and the 99-cent cheeseburger was an outsize chunk of the $9.50 he'd earned that day panhandling. The generosity of poor people isn't so much rare as rarely noticed, however.

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Pakistan launches full-scale military assault on Taliban

Fri, 08 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

McClatchy - By Saeed Shah - May. 08 (News Report) - Pakistan declared war on its homegrown Islamic extremists Thursday in a dramatic move that could trigger a wider conflagration.

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