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Feb. 3 (Bloomberg) - - The Obama Administration acted in contempt by continuing its deepwater drilling moratorium after the policy was struck down, a New Orleans judge ruled.

Interior Department regulators acted with “determined disregard” by lifting and reinstituting a series of policy changes that restricted offshore drilling, following the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history, U.S. District Judge, Martin Feldman of New Orleans ruled yesterday.

By Juliet Eilperin Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced Wednesday afternoon that the Obama administration will not allow offshore oil drilling in the eastern Gulf of Mexico or off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts as part of the next five-year drilling plan, reversing two key policy changes President Obama announced in late March.

We are adjusting our strategy in areas where there are no active leases," Salazar told reporters in a phone call, adding that...

Stolen from a comment on Market Watch 

by alljammedup

Here's my BAD dream as the owner of a small business...(speaking of the Federal Government) they'd like to make me a business offer. Seriously. This is a real offer. In fact, you really can’t turn them down, as you’ll come to understand in a moment…

Here’s the deal. You’re going to start a business or expand the one you’ve got now. It doesn’t...

By: Mark Tapscott

Editorial Page Editor

08/23/10 11:32 AM EDT

Read more at the Washington Examiner:

Expect to hear a lot about how much the Iraq war cost in the days ahead from Democrats worried about voter ...

Two tactics on climate change

Some prefer to lobby as others build a grassroots base.

By Ambreen Ali

Two environmental camps are taking starkly different strategies on climate change as lawmakers turn their attention to what could be the next big legislative fight.

Some activists are lobbying lawmakers to pass something this year, even if it's a bil...

In the aftermath of a year's fight on health care, we can expect further dissent on this issue.  Consider the following:

"A flood of lawsuits from states seeking to block the health care law President Obama signed this week raises sharp questions about the power of the federal government to impose mandates on its citizens, but legal scholars disagree about how the cases will be decided if they are heard by the Supreme Court." -

Excerpt from an article on BigGovernment:

Grassroots conservatives were rightly up in arms over Senator Corker’s game of footsie with far left Democrat Chris Dodd. The two worked together on President Obama’s effort to impose a massive new regulatory scheme on the American economy. Dodd, of course, is one of the architects of the current financial crisis. Hi...

IMF's Strauss-Kahn suggests IMF may one day provide global reserve asset

By HARRY DUNPHY Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON February 26, 2010 (AP)

Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the head of the International Monetary Fund, suggested Friday the organization might one day be called on to provide  countries with a global reserve currency that would serve as an alternative to the U.S. dollar.

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