The South Rises Again - and Skews National Polls
We've seen tons of hand-wringing and doom & gloom predictions for Democrats in the Media and elsewhere of late. But, as is so often the case, we don't get much of a deeper analysis of the national...
View ArticleObama White House going solar!
Jimmy Carter started it all by installing solar panels on the White House and pushing hard for renewables and energy independence.Then came Reagan/Bush and 30 years of a Republican-driven agenda and...
View ArticleThe Gallup poll is bunk! GOTV!
Gallup's polls have been used by both the main stream media and our very own front page to predict doom and gloom for the Democrats tomorrow. The odd thing is that hardly anyone has been looking at...
View Article"Weak" Obama Admin: Wind, not Oil!
The current, popular narrative here at DailyKos seems to be that President Obama is weak and "capitulates" to Republicans more often than any of us can say capitulate between breakfast and lunch.
View ArticleHolder DOJ Cracks Down on Financial Fraud
This won't be much of a diary, but it is nice to see the DOJ successfully executing a national campaign against financial fraud. Hopefully this will be the first of many campaigns targeting financial...
View ArticleSoD Gates Orders Pentagon to Cut Spending
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates is following through on his previously stated intent to reduce our defense spending:Pentagon to cut spending by $78 billion, reduce troop strengthBy Craig Whitlock and...
View ArticleBirth of a New Nation.
The results are in from Southern Sudan's referendum on independence: a whopping 99% of voters voted for secession from Sudan.
View ArticleYou Know that the 21st Century Will Be the Solar Century when....
... the largest company in the U.S., G.E., projects that solar power will be competitive with fossil fuel generation within 3 to 5 years and one of world's largest oil and gas giants, Total S.A.,...
View ArticleWhy Voting Matters - California Senate bans Styrofoam
This won't be much of a diary, but I'd like to cheer the good news from California, brought to us by our good Democratic Senators from California and all the people who got their asses out to the...
View ArticleSEC Probing Goldman Sachs, Others, for Possible Bribery Violations.
It looks like the Arab Spring uprising in Libya may lead to Goldman Sachs and others having some major problems. The focus on Libya has brought to light some very odd investment transactions between...
View ArticleThe Most Incredible Video of the Libyan Revolution
If a picture speaks a thousand words, then this video about the early days of the Libyan Revolution speaks millions. Not only does it clearly show that the Revolution was initially peaceful, but also...
View ArticleObama Administration looking to raise CAFE Standards to 56 mpg!
The lobbying groups that are leaning on Senator Carl Levin may not like it, and the Republicans and Big Oil sure the hell won't like it, but it seems that the Obama Administration is about to get...
View ArticleWho are the Libyan "Rebels"?
This is a question that has been asked over and over again in the West, despite tons of information about the Libyan Revolution being available from both quality journalists and the Free Libyans...
View ArticleThe Arab Spring and the Dawn of the Solar Century
Many have been wondering what the effects of the Arab Spring in North Africa on renewables would be. There were plans in place to considerably boost renewables in North African countries, and then...
View ArticleBREAKING: Siemens Withdraws from Nuclear Power Business
Germany's Spiegel Online magazine is reporting that Siemens, one of the world's largest companies, is divesting itself completely of its involvement in nuclear plant construction and...
View ArticleBelgium to phase out Nuclear Power Completely by 2025.
In 2003, the government of Belgium had decided to phase out nuclear power. With the so-called Nuclear Renaissance, however, by 2009 there were plans to extend the running times of the nuclear power...
View ArticleGotta Love Obama's First Ad for 2012!
Republicans thought they had President Obama cornered when they forced him to make a decision on the Keystone XL Pipeline. I guess they didn't realize that the Obama team has gone into campaign mode...
View ArticleKoch Brothers Pledge $ 60 Million to Defeat Obama
It's been pretty clear for some time now that the Big Fossil 0.1 percenters are going to be going all in to prevent a second Obama term. And with the cover of the Supreme Court's Citizens United...
View Article"Winter Deep Freeze Will Cause Breakdown of German Electric Grid"
Well, at least that is what pro-nuke advocates predicted when Germany shut down its eight oldest nuclear power plants last year and decided to drive towards a renewable energy future. The recent deep...
View ArticleGOOD NEWS: More Americans Accept Climate Change as Reality.
Back in the spring of 2010, many of us were appalled when polling showed that only a slight majority(52%) of Americans accepted Climate Change as reality. It was a huge drop from the 3/4's of...
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