Steven Chu to be Energy Sec’y

According to various media outlets,  Barack Obama is expected to tap Nobel-laureate physicist, Stanford faculty, and current  director of Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory,  Steven Chu as his Energy Secretary.
Considering the importance of energy policy – not just for US, but the world – in the coming years, this is a great decision by Obama. Not [...]

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Not just a President (5)

(Too lazy to try to work the title into a sentence this time; but more absurdity from the US elections, this time involving the Democrats).
In an attempt to sway voters in the Ohio primary, Hillary Clinton attempts to potray herself in the role of an underpaid, over-worked blue-collared worker.
In her remarks in Youngstown on Tuesday [...]

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Not just a President (4)

But certain Americans want a President whose wife (or husband) is patriotically proud of her country . These sections of the American voters are working themselves into an apoplectic tizzy over this statement by Michelle Obama, wife of Presendential contender, Barack:
“For the first time in my adult lifetime, I’m really proud of my country [...]

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