As U.S. scales back, ‘King Coal’ reigns as global powerhouse By Patrice Hill– The Washington Times Monday, March 4, 2013 It’s been a rough few years for the coal industry, with President Obama and environmental groups seemingly bent on driving it out of business. But for coal, all the world’s a stage — and […]
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NEWS&OBSERVER CANADIAN OIL, THE KEYSTONE PIPELINE AND THE CHINESE March 10, 2013 By Stephen R. Kelly Stephen R. Kelly is the associate director of Canadian Studies at Duke University and a former U.S. diplomat in Canada. EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: National oil companies like CNOOC, which is 70 percent owned by the People’s
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December 8, 2012 North Carolina as the Blueprint for a Red-State Resurgence With party unity, good candidates and an inclusive message, conservative campaigns can prosper. By FRED BARNES Democrats across the country are celebrating the re-election of President Obama and the pickup of two seats in the Senate and eight in the House. But
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November 23, 2012 Here Comes the Regulatory Flood Costly rules held up for the election are about to roll over the economy. President Obama’s hyperactive regulators went on hiatus in 2011 to get through Election Day. Now with his second term secure, they’re about to make up for lost time and then some. The
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November 19, 2012 Investment Falls Off a Cliff U.S. Companies Cut Spending Plans Amid Fiscal and Economic Uncertainty By SUDEEP REDDY and SCOTT THURM U.S. companies are scaling back investment plans at the fastest pace since the recession, signaling more trouble for the economic recovery. Half of the nation’s 40 biggest publicly traded corporate
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NEW YORK TIMES Terrorist Attack on Power Grid Could Cause Broad Hardship, Report Says By MATTHEW L. WALD Published: November 14, 2012 WASHINGTON — Terrorists could black out large segments of the United States for weeks or months by attacking the power grid and damaging hard-to-replace components that are crucial to making it work,
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November 2, 2012 Fred Barnes: Obama and the Back-to- the-Future Campaign If the president had practiced the bipartisanship he now promises, he might have been a shoo-in. By FRED BARNES President Obama is eyeing a new tax cut to boost the economy. He wants to “reduce the costs of our health care programs.” He’s
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The choice By Charles Krauthammer, Published: November 1 EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: Obama’s intention has always been to re-normalize, to reverse ideological course, to be the anti-Reagan — the author of a new liberal ascendancy. Nor did he hide his ambition. In his February 2009 address to Congress he declared his intention to transform America.
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Country Roads to Nowhere Obama deserts coal; Democrats desert Obama. Henry Payne September 24, 2012, Vol. 18, No. 02 Charleston, W. Va. EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: In June, Patriot Coal—with 12 mining complexes across Appalachia to Illinois and some 2 billion tons of proven coal reserves—became the
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