December 19, 2008
In a move that I find personally exciting as a scientist, Obama has decided to nominate, not a career politician, but a career scientist for the post of Secretary of Energy, one could happily say an “elite” scientist. Â Dr. Stephen Chu is a trained biochemist and physicist who won the ...
go to article »December 14, 2008
Much as I hate using the expression “believing in global warming” - like it’s akin to believing in fairies, or something. Perhaps “who believes that global warming is man-made” is a better way of putting it. Anyway: the man hotly tipped to be named the new American ener...
go to article »December 3, 2008
Amazed Parisians are still reeling after discovering billboards featuring President Sarkozy, pictured as U.S. President-elect Barack Obama, after Shepard Fairey's famous poster, with the wonders working comment Yes We Can! Suzanne Lehn gives us a chronological break down of what happened and how the Yes We Can slogan became Yes We Must!
November 20, 2008
In a secret ballot vote, the House Democratic caucus has removed the Michigan Rep. John Dingell from his chairmanship of the Energy and Commerce panel in favor of California Rep. Henry Waxman. The change may presage a shift in the House in favor of much more purist and extreme leftist views on a...
go to article »November 13, 2008
Barack Obama’s election as the next US president could usher in a new era of solar energy development in the United States, but economic difficulties may prove a barrier to some of the more expensive renewable initiatives, according to Gartner, Inc. “Demand for solar energy remains ...
go to article »November 11, 2008
Around the world, leaders have mostly greeted the election of Barack Obama with enthusiasm, some of which is routine “congratulations to the new guy†you’d get with any U.S. election and some of which is no doubt informed by exhaustion with the President Bush years and a sincere a...
go to article »November 9, 2008
November 5, 2008
Its kinda funny to see people supporting Obama or McCain in Kuwait Some are using argument that one of them is better than the other , some are still connected to the republican party ( by feeling of gratitude for Bush Sr part in liberation of Kuwait ) some liberals are still liberal , want to s...
go to article »November 4, 2008
Keith Olbermann and Howard Fineman look at what happened in the campaigns yesterday (clue: John McCain and Sarah Palin talked a lot about coal), and what the McCain camp have to do to win: And here was the end of Obama’s final speech yesterday, in Virginia, where he spoke to a crowd of 90,000...
go to article »November 3, 2008
Yesterday we published the audio of an interview Barack Obama gave to the San Fransisco Chronicle in January of this year. During the interview, Sen. Obama said that his energy plans would cause the prices of energy to “skyrocket” and he would put a system in place that would cause all n...
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