THE ATLANTIC How North Carolina Became the Wisconsin of 2013 With a Republican takeover of state government and weekly protests in Raleigh, the Tar Heel State is the front line in America’s partisan battle . David A. Graham Jul 1 2013 inShare Gerry Broome/Associated Press Nowhere is the battle between liberal and conservative visions
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May 6, 2013 A Tale of Two Oil States While the shale boom lifts Texas, California sits on vast resources. Texas and California have been competing for years as U.S. growth models, and one of the less discussed comparisons is on energy. The Golden State has long been one of America’s big three oil
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April 3, 2013 Merrill Matthews: About Those Tax Breaks for Big Oil . . . The attack line about ‘special’ deals for the industry doesn’t stand up to scrutiny. By MERRILL MATTHEWS EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: Mr. Van Hollen’s ”Stop the Sequester Job Loss Now Act” would raise taxes on individuals—what he calls the
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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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