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With all due respect, Mr. President, you misstated “the defining issue of our time …”
I do hope that the United States returns to the idyllic notion of a past defined by your grandparents in
a story of success that every American had a chance to share – the basic American promise that if you worked hard, [...]

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Honestly, the State of the Union (SOTU) has never been a time which I’ve seen as ‘getting drunk’ time. However, there has grown over the years a State of the Union drinking games tradition. And, well, 2012 builds on that tradition.
Let’s take a look, for a moment, at the President’s forshadowing of tonight’s [...]

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Ta-Nehisi Coates’ discussion of confronting Civil War ‘Comfortable History’ from such ’sound Historians’ as Ron Paul makes interesting reading. About the asymmetric nature of this conflict, Coates concludes:
The problem debating this sort of thing is the side of dishonesty and intellectual laziness is at an advantage. It will likely take more effort for me to [...]

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When it comes to the November 2012elections, few people identify science as the core issue. Economic concerns (JOBS! JOBS! JOBS!), fossil-foolish fueled anger at government, passions over the role of government, the Occupy Movement (what is happening to the 99% while the 1% profit?), and otherwise are among the many “core” issues.  A hidden element [...]

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Energy policy is a rather complicated domain. That complexity is worsened when factual errors (whether purposefully driven or accidental) enter into the discussion. In the weeks since the news broke about U.S. refined products now being a net export, rather than import, marketplace, it is hard to overstate the number of times where people have [...]

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As the American ‘traditional’ media seems fixated on asserting that “labor” supports the Keystone XL pipeline, it seems oblivious to the reality that America’s labor movement now has some of the most thoughtful voices about how to address climate change challenges to foster a stronger social stability (including higher employment) while reducing our carbon impacts.
AFL-CIO [...]

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I received a couple notes from Twitter.
The official White House blogger, Jon Carson, is now following me and responded to one of my messages.
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@A_Siegel thanks for helping me hear from folks about SOTU, getting lots of people talking about clean energy jobs  Jan 09, 8:50 AM via web
In reply to…
A_Siegel WH asks: What should be [...]

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