The NYTimes reports:
The House on Tuesday night approved a measure that would ease a longstanding ban on offshore oil drilling and try to spur greater use of alternative fuels as Democrats and Republicans engaged in a bitter pre-election clash over America’s energy future.
The legislation…would allow drilling as close as 50 miles from the coastline if [...]

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Last night on David Letterman, Barack Obama had one of his best interviews in recent weeks, and made a point that’s been resonating in my mind all day: that 9/11 was a missed opportunity for America to change its ways.
In the wave of fear and goodwill that followed President Kennedy’s assassination in 1963, Lyndon B. Johnson was [...]

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi reversed her own position on offshore oil drilling this weekend in a move similar to Barack Obama’s last week, dropping her stern opposition in favor of something like “Let’s wait and see.” 
During the Democrats weekly radio address, amongst a barrage of her usual anti-drilling statements, Pelosi revealed that she would no [...]

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