Rising concern over the size of the federal deficit was a drum that Republican leaders beat through the midterm election campaign, and that concern clearly helped motivate President Obama’s decision Monday to freeze the pay of all federal civilian employees for the next two years, although the savings from that will be a drop in [...]
Colorado GOP Senate candidate Ken Buck called homosexuality a choice and defended his statement that a jury would find a woman’s acquaintance rape claim akin to “buyer’s remorse” in a debate with Democratic incumbent Sen. Michael Bennet on Sunday’s “Meet the Press.” Democrats immediately pounced on Buck’s debate statements — as did Bennet. During the [...]
A couple of readers responded to my recent post about the religions of Sarah Palin and Christine O’Donnell by asking why I didn’t spend my time digging deeper into the religious history of President Obama. As one of them reminded me, Obama attended school “in a MUSLIM country.” A real reporter would keep probing, he [...]
Five former U.S. attorneys are gathering in Little Rock, Ark., on Monday to discuss a mutual, and curious, political past. All of them were fired by the Bush administration during 2006-07. The controversy erupted when officials of George W. Bush’s White House and Alberto Gonzales’ Justice Department fired eight U.S. attorneys in midterm. All of [...]
Mariner Energy cannot seem to get a break. Thursday’s fire on a Mariner Energy platform in the Gulf of Mexico not only initially sparked fears of another disastrous oil spill, it also raised market worries that it could jeopardize the company’s proposed $2.7 billion sale to Apache. The concern was that the fire could provide [...]
Mariner Energy cannot seem to get a break. Thursday’s fire on a Mariner Energy platform in the Gulf of Mexico not only initially sparked fears of another disastrous oil spill, it also raised market worries that it could jeopardize the company’s proposed $2.7 billion sale to Apache. The concern was that the fire could provide [...]
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