Former Alaska governor says Obama should boycott Copenhagen summit A former vice president and a former vice presidential nominee are engaged in a public battle over climate change, a tiff sparked by Sarah Palin's op-ed in Wednesday's Washington Post.....

The U.S. Energy Department said it will spend close to $600 million to help build renewable energy plants that will turn wood chips, cornstalks and algae into fuel.The government will team up with private companies to create 19 biorefinery projects....

The Department of Energy is announcing today a $3.5 billion investment in grants to "spur the nation's transition to a smarter, stronger, more efficient and reliable electric system," according to a press release by the DOE

While the Obama administration is seeking only $1 billion for high speed rail construction in the 2010 Transportation/HUD appropriations bill, urban region Democrats in Congress want to bump that number up to as much as an additional $4 billion....

"Lobbyists won't find a job in my White House." President Obama assured us with this claim upon inauguration. And yet he just nominated to two key posts "Big Ag" industry power brokers, who come straight from the chemical pesticide and biotechnology

American Police Force, the paramilitary unit patrolling a small town in Montana, has been exposed as being a front group for the disgraced private military contractor Blackwater, now called "Xe".

U.S. Kills Top Qaeda Militant in Southern Somalia http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/15/world/africa /15raid.html?hp http://www.care2.com/c2c/group/ ReckonThat

The Department of Labor released their long-awaited report on goods produced by child labor and forced labor today. This list is a huge boon for consumers who want to choose slave-free products. Please visit site!

A high-ranking official at the taxpayer-funded leftist group that conducts fraudulent voter registration drives has pleaded guilty to conspiracy for organizing a scheme that illegally paid workers to register new voters.

The United States deeply regrets the decision by the Scottish Executive to release Abdel Basset Mohamed al-Megrahi. Megrahi was convicted and sentenced to life in prison for his role in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, which blew up over Scotland