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March 11, 2013
Rewarded for breast-cancer lies By PHELIM MCALEER Last Updated: 1:23 AM, August 3, 2012 Posted: 10:04 PM, August 2, 2012 Breast cancer is uniquely frightening. Almost everyone knows someone who’s had it, and too many of us know someone it’s killed. More than 40,000 Americans died of breast cancer last year alone — more than [...]
March 10, 2013
Like many environmentalists, I was dismayed when the Senate failed to pass a cap-and-trade bill two years ago. It looked like we would never get our act together to reduce greenhouse gases. Get ready to have beachfront property in Vermont, I thought. But it turns out our greenhouse emissions dropped anyway, from 6 million metric [...]
March 10, 2013
ALBANY — The state’s Health Department found in an analysis it prepared early last year that the much-debated drilling technology known as hydrofracking could be conducted safely in New York, according to a copy obtained by The New York Times from an expert who did not believe it should be kept secret. The analysis and [...]
February 05, 2013
New web video points out hypocrisy of Organizing for Action Arlington, VA – Today Americans for Prosperity, a nationwide organization of citizen leaders with over 2 million activists and 34 state chapters, released a new video poking fun at the president for his new non-profit, tax exempt group. “Sadly most of us have gotten used [...]
January 16, 2013
A Statement from AFP President Tim Phillips “President Obama has demanded a clean, hassle-free vote on raising, yet again, the debt ceiling; he should not and will not get it. The debt ceiling fight is another much needed opportunity to refocus on what got us into this mess: years of runaway government spending. AFP urges [...]