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15 Surprising Side Effects of Rising College Costs

It’s hard to miss talk about rising college costs these days. It’s plastered all over newspapers and websites, and has been at the center of much political debate over the [...]

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Higher Education Needs a Complete Overhaul – BY Neil Snyder

In an article for today’s FrontPage Magazine titled “Schools of Education: The Academic Slums,” Walter Williams was right on the money.  Speaking about schools of education, he said, “Education...

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Can Obama Help Make College Affordable?

Written by Matthew C. Keegan President Obama’s State of the Union speech on Jan. 24, 2012, covered a number of topics. Higher education was one of his themes. Obama, who [...]

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Energy regulations hurt job creation

My Colorado colleague, Republican Rep. Cory Gardner, recently asked the Environmental Protection Agency’s assistant administrator, Mathy Stanislaus, whether the agency’s economic analysis had...

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News analysis: Obama takes bipartisan heat on energy policy

By Aamer Madhani, USA TODAY WASHINGTON – As his re-election campaign heats up, President Obama finds himself in an awkward position trying to defend his environmental policies against Republicans and...

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Northwest lawmakers fighting EPA boiler rules

By Rob Hotakainen / McClatchy -Tribune News Service WASHINGTON — Congress is feuding over how quickly the federal government should move in trying to reduce deadly air pollution that comes from...

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EPA says to Comment soon on Keystone XL pipeline

By Timothy Gardner (Reuters) – The top U.S. environmental regulator on Thursday said her agency would soon comment on the proposed $7 billion Canada-to-Texas Keystone XL oil sands pipeline, adding she...

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Free American Energy Now!

Earlier this month, the Texas Public Policy Foundation officially launched the “Free American Energy Now!” campaign, a partnership with Salem Radio Network to increase public awareness of the ways in...

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Manufacturing America’s New Middle Class: Henry R. Nothhaft

By Henry R. Nothhaft Nov. 15 (Bloomberg) — Given how desperately the U.S. needs jobs, it’s amazing how little effort Congress and the president devote to revitalizing manufacturing, the most potent of...

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Rick Perry: Obama’s Keystone XL Pipeline Delay Puts ‘Soliders’ Lives In...

By Tyler Kingkade Texas Gov. Rick Perry said Tuesday that President Barack Obama’s move to delay a decision on the controversial Keystone XL pipeline puts American lives in danger. Perry has made...

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Energy and environment issues hot for 2012 presidential race.

Gingrich, Perry, Romney and Cain have all been critics of EPA policy. | AP Photo Close By ERICA MARTINSON The Environmental Protection Agency is likely to play an unusually prominent role in the 2012...

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Obama’s Stratgeic Inaction

Charlie Sykes: Sykes Writes We can’t wait. Except for certain exceptions, such as the 1,700-mile trans-USA Keystone XL pipeline, carrying Alberta oil to Texas refineries, that would have created...

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Former EPA policy chief faults White House for tepid response to GOP attacks

Lawrence Hurley, E&E reporter U.S. EPA‘s former policy chief is accusing the Obama administration of failing to mount a forceful defense of environmental regulations in the face of fierce partisan...

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Is Obama Utterly Focused on Jobs or Just Worried About Reelection?

The administration’s dismissal of new smog rules may show a growing preference for a practical approach to encouraging the economic recovery over progressive priorities Are we just seeing an election...

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U.S. energy policy: A slow national suicide

  With Keystone XL delay, America continues its slow economic strangulation By Charles Campbell In 1969, three unrelated events occurred that have since been combined with political bungling to slowly...

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Obama Losing Support Among Blue Collar Americans

Erika Johnsen Since the Obama administration seems to do everything in its power to stonewall the domestic energy industry, including weak non-decisions like the Keystone pipeline, keeping up a virtual...

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Obama, Congress Begin 2012 In Oil Pipeline Dispute

by The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama and Congress are starting the election year locked in a tussle over a proposed 1,700-mile oil pipeline from Canada to Texas that will...

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Jobs report prompts calls for drilling, green energy support

By Ben Geman When it comes to energy, Friday’s hopeful new data on job creation is prompting lawmakers and interest groups to call for . . . what they were calling for before the new report. House...

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Chamber touts Keystone XL, domestic energy to create jobs

by Puneet Kollipara Energy topped the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s annual list of priorities for boosting the economy, as the group’s president urged approval of the Keystone XL pipeline and further...

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Are ‘green energy’ policies thwarting job growth?

MARK J. PERRY Pro:Strategy is sabotaging an economic recovery FLINT, Mich. — Kicking the can down the road, as President Obama did in delaying a decision on construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline...

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Keystone XL Still Needed to Boost American Economy, Create Jobs

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE    Contact: Luke Legate  Phone: 512-775-9400 Obama Administration’s Denial of Permit Is Bad News for Manufacturing Sector Austin, TX – The following statement on President Barack...

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Newt Slams Obama’s radical EPA

At the NBC News/Facebook debate in Concord, NH Newt slams the EPA for its radical and anti-business regulations citing the EPA’s crazy comments on farm dust and dust in the desert. Its too bad we can’t...

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Keystone XL Pipeline Seen Moving Ahead on Alternative Route

Jim Efstathiou Jr., ©2012 Bloomberg News TransCanada Corp.‘s $7 billion Keystone XL oil pipeline still will move ahead with an alternate route after President Barack Obama’s decision to deny a permit,...

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President Obama’s job-killing environmental extremism

by Brian H. Darling The job-creating Keystone XL pipeline isn’t going to happen, thanks to President Barack Obama. He intends to use a provision in the law extending the payroll tax cut for two months...

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Oil pipeline is a high-stakes chess game

It is one of the biggest chess pieces imaginable — almost 1,700 miles long — and yet Washington politicians keep moving it around as if it were a mere pawn in their unending game of partisan...

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‘Fracking’ gives U.S. lease on energy independence

By Arthur I. Cyr “Fracking” rhymes with “hacking” and is not a friendly term. Other unpleasant words that begin with “f” include “fracture,” “frenzied,” “frustrate” and more. The f-word at issue here,...

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Obama to tout natural gas benefits in State of Union

By Ayesha Rascoe and Richard Cowan, Reuters The president is expected to devote a significant portion of his speech calling for a ‘new era for American energy,’ which will include natural gas. Obama...

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Natural gas is great, but Nevadans need jobs

by Steve Sebelius President Barack Obama got a fairly good reception Thursday when he showed up in Las Vegas to repeat some of the highlights of his State of the Union speech. But I’d already seen that...

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No energy is good to the greens

By NICOLAS LORIS For all of President Obama’s talk Tuesday night of boosting US energy production, he has a huge problem: The American left — a vital part of his political base — seems determined to...

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State of the Union: Jobs talk slammed the XL pipeline potential – By James Wang

By James Wang Reality has always been a problem for President Barack Obama and State of the Union Addresses. Being a time of grave economic activities, matters are no different. This year, while laced...

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Rejection of oil pipeline costs jobs, energy security

Lawrence S. Katz / Toms River Should our president allow environmental lobbyists to influence or dictate this nation’s energy policy? That occurred when Barack Obama rejected construction of the...

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Refinery Closures Lead to Rising Gas Prices and Job Losses

by Robert Rapier Refinery Closures and the Keystone Pipeline There have been several announcements in recent months of refinery closures that will likely impact gasoline supplies (and prices) on the...

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Kinder Morgan Lapping Enbridge in Canadian Pipeline Race: Energy

By Mike Lee and Jeremy van Loon Kinder Morgan (KMP) Inc., which this year will become the largest U.S. pipeline company after its $20.7 billion purchase of El Paso Corp. (EP) aims to extend its lead...

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Americans Gaining Energy Independence

By Rich Miller, Asjylyn Loder and Jim Polson – Bloomberg The U.S. is the closest it has been in almost 20 years to achieving energy self-sufficiency, a goal the nation has been pursuing since the 1973...

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Texans Are Baffled by the Keystone Decision

China will get the oil from Canada that could have come to the U.S. By RICK PERRY Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper was in Beijing recently signing an agreement and touting his country’s growing...

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Fracking is safe, efficient process

By BRIAN “DOUG” DEEKEN Wayne County Young Republicans The economic benefits of extracting natural gas via hydraulic fracturing or “fracking” absolutely outweigh the trumped up environmental concerns....

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Rep. Murphy: US isn’t keeping up with the world on energy

VARNEY: Pennsylvania Republican Congressman Tim Murphy with me now. Congressman, you heard what the president’s got to say, that we’re producing more oil now than we have in at any time in the last...

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Texas becomes battlefield in Keystone XL pipeline fight

Dave Montgomery The Fort Worth Star-Telegram AUSTIN — The politically volatile Keystone XL pipeline is becoming embroiled in a widening controversy in Texas as supporters tout the promise of jobs and...

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White House Backs Pipeline That Will Ship U.S. Oil Overseas

Jennifer Bendery jen.bendery@huffingtonpost.com – WASHINGTON — The White House is throwing its support behind a decision by TransCanada to build a portion of the Keystone XL pipeline, even though the...

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GOP Leaders Optimistic on Energy, Jobs After Meeting With Obama

By Siobhan Hughes House Speaker John Boehner (R., Ohio) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) on Wednesday sounded an unusually optimistic note after meeting with President Barack Obama,...

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King Dollar Will Cut Oil Prices

By: Larry Kudlow – CNBC Anchor No matter how much President Obama protests, the simple fact is that he continues to oppose and mock and disparage oil and gas drilling. He is a prisoner of the...

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Keystone XL Pipeline: a job-creating win for America

By Former Rep. J.C. Watts, Jr. President Obama recently got a look at what his failed energy policies are doing to America and I hope he fully appreciates that he does have the power to change things...

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TransCanada Submits Keystone Pipeline Reroute Plan

By EDWARD WELSCH CALGARY, Alberta—TransCanada Corp. TRP -0.58% submitted a reroute of its Keystone XL oil pipeline to the Nebraska state government Wednesday, moving a step closer to reviving the...

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Romney Vows Immediate Approval of Keystone XL on First Day in White House

Mitt Romney is vowing to approve TransCanada‘s Keystone XL pipeline on his first day on the job if elected U.S. president in November. In a campaign ad unveiled on Friday, the presumptive Republican...

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Congressmen criticize delay on Keystone pipeline

By Rob Moritz Arkansas News Bureau LITTLE ROCK — If work on the Keystone XL oil pipeline does not begin soon jobs could be in jeopardy at a Little Rock plant that makes pipe for the project, two of...

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Obama & Romney: Different Views on Energy

T.V. Program Special Hosts Prominent Washington Insiders to Debate Obama, Romney Energy Plans By Platts Although both claim to favor an “all of the above” strategy for establishing energy policies and...

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Fracking Developed With Decades Of Government Investment

AP  |  By KEVIN BEGOS PITTSBURGH (AP) — It sounds like a free-market success story: a natural gas boom created by drilling company innovation, delivering a vast new source of cheap energy without the...

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Tempers flare between Obama, Romney on energy

President Obama and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney hotly debated energy independence and drilling for oil in North America during the town hall style Presidential Debate at Hofstra...

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First Hispanic UT Chancellor receives national honor

by Angela Covo Last week, Rep. Rubén Hinojosa, D-Mercedes, chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute (CHCI), announced Dr. Francisco Cigarroa will be the recipient of The Chair’s Award, one...

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The Top 5 Lies About Fracking

Ronald Bailey | reason.com Explosions, poisons, pollution, cancer, and global warming all considered. Gasland Part II, the sequel to director/activist Josh Fox‘s earlier anti-fracking docudrama...

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