Oil Industry Leader Sends Message to Congress

American Petroleum Institute President Jack Gerard sent a letter to members of Congress Friday.  Below is the text of that letter with helpful links added (by me): "Dear Member of Congress: As the Congress...

An Innovative Solution For the Current Economic Crisis

The nature of the current economic crisis is such that it cannot be resolved with the standard array of tools at the disposal of the President.  What's required is a sustainable, renewable solution, one that transcends the immediate financial crisis and actively -...

Sin City Mayor Demands Obama Apologize for Anti-Las Vegas Remarks

Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman is demanding that Barack Obama apologoize for remarks the President made during his February 9, 2009 town hall meeting in Elkhart, Indiana.  While rallying support for his...

Obama to Sell Stimulus Package in Series of Town Hall Meetings

US President Barack Obama is on the road to rally public support for his economic stimulus package and he is starting in Indiana, the state that has been among the hardest hit by the economic crisis.  With the...

Obama: delay on stimulus is "inexcusable and irresponsible"

""These Americans are counting on us," he said. "All of us in Washington must remember that we're here to work for the American people. And if we drag our feet and fail to act, this crisis will turn into a...

Obama's First 100 Days

There is much to be doneand it will take time andnot everything  will getdone but it is importantto get started now."The economyThe experts at CNN Money lay out six issues that require President Obama's...

Obama's 2009 stimulus package to grant $16 billion in R&D funding

16 January 2009. The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has estimated that, of the $850 billion economic stimulus package drafted by the incoming Congress and Obama administration, nearly two...

Richardson Scandal ‘Shape of Things to Come’

The scandal that led to the withdrawal of Commerce Secretary-designate Bill Richardson may be “just the beginning of a string of scandals unlike anything we’ve seen in American history,” Richard A. Viguerie said today. Viguerie used a late-afternoon news release to...

Obama Pledges 3 Million New Jobs, but How?

.This sounds good but thequestion becomes wherethe money will come from.If it just adds to the deficitand national debt it couldbe counter preoductive. " Obama will meet with Democratic as well as Republican...

Brown suffers new opinion poll blow

It's looking as if the bump in popularity UK prime minister Gordon Brown experienced after his handling of the world financial crisis may have been temporary. After Brown took the lead in developing a bank bailout plan for the UK which other nations then copied, his polling...

Bernanke wants new stimulus package to ease credit crunch

Federal Reserve Chariman Ben Bernanke is asking that more taxpayer money be used in a new stimulus package designed to bolster stalled credit markets.  Bernanke made the announcement today stating that the...

US starts sending out tax rebates

The US government has started sending out tax rebates to consumers worth more than $100 billion - as part of a wider economic stimulus plan. ""Starting Monday, the effects of the stimulus will begin to reach...

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