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Biden Yanks Alaska Oil Leases
Biden Yanks Alaska Oil Leases

Biden Yanks Alaska Oil Leases

'We have a responsibility,' president says of Interior Dept. move in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

(Newser) - As then-President Trump's days in the White House came to a close, an Alaskan state development agency was granted a slew of oil and gas leases that ended decades of a drilling moratorium in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. This week, President Biden's Department of the Interior nixed...

Liberals Dislike Zuckerberg's Political Ads

Facebook in crosshairs thanks to strategy

(Newser) - As Facebook announced its earnings yesterday, a small crowd of protesters gathered outside its headquarters, wearing hazmat suits and chanting things like, "Keystone, take a hike. Facebook dislike." It was the latest sign of the backlash the company is facing over Mark Zuckerberg's new political organization, FWD....

Alaska Senator to Sarah Palin: Whine to John McCain

Says he doesn't take advice from 'someone who quit'

(Newser) - Mark Begich delivered a sharp jab at Sarah Palin yesterday, saying, in effect, that he didn’t consider her an Alaskan anymore. Asked about Palin’s insistence that he push to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling as part of a debt ceiling deal, Begich replied, “...

Palin Warms up on Climate Change
Palin Warms up
on Climate Change

Palin Warms up on Climate Change

VP wannabe blurs her position on global warming, stays defiant on drilling ANWR

(Newser) - Sarah Palin used her debut interview last night to soften her earlier position that global warming is not man-made, reports the Los Angeles Times. The Alaska governor had stated just a few weeks ago that she didn’t believe global warming to be human-caused. Her position is now closer to...

Palin Perfect on Energy: 'Drill, Drill, Drill'

Alaskan gov's call to 'drill, drill, drill' will resonate

(Newser) - Sarah Palin’s Alaska experience gives her just the right expertise for a year when the price of gasoline is going to be the hot-button issue, writes Larry Kudlow in National Review. Her energy policy? “I call it drill, drill, drill,” says Kudlow approvingly. "Our abundant country...

Bush Blames Congress for Economic Sloth

Urges housing, energy action, chides Dems' 'political statements'

(Newser) - President Bush conceded that “it’s a very slow economy” one day ahead of possibly ugly GDP numbers, the New York Times reports, and said Congress is dragging its feet on gas prices, the mortgage crisis, farm subsidies and student loans. The Democratic-controlled legislature should be “sending me...

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