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Ethanol subsidies could be worsening food scarcity for the poor

By | 10.25.11 | 1:54 pm | More from The Iowa Independent

Pumping that golden elixir — corn-ethanol — into the gas tank can do a world of good, or so goes the argument.

Brewer Tries to Keep Foreign Governments Out of Immigration Lawsuit

By | 10.06.10 | 3:32 pm

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer is protesting a federal court’s decision to allow foreign governments to file “friend-of-the-court” briefs in the Justice Department’s lawsuit against Arizona’s SB 1070 immigration law. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, which will hear the case in November, ruled Monday that Mexico, Argentina, Bolivia, More…

Gibbs: Why Would the New Iran Nuke Move Scuttle the Sanctions Process?

By | 05.17.10 | 5:15 pm

Building on his previous noncommittal statement about Iran’s declared deal to send most of its uranium to Turkey for enrichment, Robert Gibbs was a human dose of Ativan during his press briefing this afternoon when asked if the move scuttles the United States’ delicately cobbled sanctions effort at the United More…

Quotes That Susan Rice Does Not Want to Read

By | 05.17.10 | 12:46 pm

There’s one up high in this morning’s New York Times piece on the Iran/Turkey/Brazil uranium enrichment deal:

According to a Western diplomat who spoke in return for anonymity because he was not authorized to brief reporters, the amount of low-enriched uranium that Iran was prepared to ship to

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Iran Uranium ‘Breakthrough,’ Just in Time for a Sanctions Debate

By | 05.17.10 | 8:27 am

It’s difficult not to be skeptical here, but the Iranian regime is announcing that it’s reached a deal, brokered by Brazil, to send the majority of its uranium to Turkey to be enriched into a state unsuitable for nuclear weapons. On the face of it, that would revive a More…

Another Day, Another Republican Hold on an Obama Nominee

By | 11.11.09 | 8:46 am

There may be no better example of how the Senate’s holds and filibusters work now than this one — Sen. George LeMieux (R-Fla.), who holds his job because his political ally Gov. Charlie Crist (R-Fla.) appointed him in September, has placed a hold on the Obama administration’s nominee for More…