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8:41 AM, May 17, 2012 • By DANIEL HALPERSteve Hayes, with Juan Williams and Charles Krauthammer, last night on Fox News:
And here's the Internet-only after-show:
12:12 PM, May 16, 2012 • By DANIEL HALPERThe chairman of First Solar, a company that's been in the recipient of the Department of Energy money, admitted this morning at a House hearing that his company has more jobs overseas than in America:
Read more... 3:00 PM, May 11, 2012 • By DANIEL HALPERNow that President Obama's reelection team wants to include coal on the agenda, it's worth remembering that Obama himself warned in 2008 that his policies would bankrupt anyone who started a coal power plant. Here he is in 2008, speaking with the San Francisco Chronicle:
Read more... And Biden was scared of coal.2:04 PM, May 11, 2012 • By DANIEL HALPERAfter a disappointing showing in West Virginia, where President Obama received only 59 percent of the vote against a prison inmate in the Democratic primary, the president's reelection team decided to highlight the importance of coal (or clean coal, to be exact) on its website. (West Virginia is a major mining state.) Well, the Obama team has had problems with coal in the past.
Read more... 1:06 PM, May 1, 2012 • By DANIEL HALPERPresident Obama's reelection team released a campaign ad this morning that features this graphic, touting the supposed "jobs created by President Obama's clean energy initiatives."
Read more... 9:26 AM, Apr 26, 2012 • By ADAM J. WHITE"Independent agencies" occupy an odd corner of American government. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, National Labor Relations Board, Federal Communications Commission, and others are nominally "independent" of the president's control—usually thanks to limits on the president's power to fire the agencies' leaders—and thus enjoy seemingly unlimited discretion to regulate American industry.
Read more... Every picture tells a story.9:16 PM, Apr 19, 2012 • By DANIEL HALPERThe 411,618 square foot Solyndra building in Fremont, California has been put on the market:

Read more... Quick, call the attorney general. 10:32 AM, Apr 17, 2012 • By GEOFFREY NORMANAccording to an AP story, President Obama, who is feeling the pressure on gasoline prices, has a plan for action which comes down to the usual, instinctive reaction of those in political power who find themselves frustrated by events in the real world.
Read more... Doom at the end of the tunnel?12:00 AM, Apr 7, 2012 • By IRWIN M. STELZERIt is no easy thing to peer through the fog of recent economic data. Confidence that the economic recovery would accelerate ran into a not-so-good job report Friday.
Read more... 10:09 AM, Apr 4, 2012 • By DANIEL HALPERMitt Romney's latest campaign ad says that President Obama's "attack machine" is "spending millions to sling mud, err oil at" the Republican candidate "because in the five states where Obama is attacking Romney, gas prices have roughly doubled."
Read more... 7:01 PM, Apr 2, 2012 • By DANIEL HALPERPresident Obama today attacked Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney for his close ties to oil companies.
Read more... 12:00 AM, Mar 31, 2012 • By IRWIN M. STELZERIt’s been more than three years since Barack Obama was elected on a pledge to “transform” America.
Read more... 12:31 PM, Mar 30, 2012 • By MICHAEL WARRENThe Massachusetts state Republican party has a new ad highlighting Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren's opposition to the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline. "Keystone Pipeline Means Thousands More Jobs and Cheaper Gas," the text of the ad reads. "Yet, Warren Opposes It."
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