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...buildings are flat, black glass that just before the crash reflected clear, blue winter skies. "It sure was hauling. It was a really speedy dive," Jerry Cullin, a pilot, told KXAN, the local NBC affiliate. "It shot across the road going really fast." Cullin had stopped to get his midmorning coffee at the local Marie Callender's when he saw the plane swoop down. It was so low, Cullin said, he could see the plane's belly and thought he might get hit. The plane almost clipped one of the tall light poles lining the freeway before crashing into...
...Republicans - men like Newt Gingrich, Tom DeLay and Trent Lott - hit on a strategy for discrediting Clinton: discredit government. Rhetorically, they derided Washington as ineffective and conflict-ridden, and through their actions they guaranteed it. Their greatest weapon was the filibuster, which forced Democrats to muster 60 votes to get legislation through the Senate. Historically, filibustering had been rare. From the birth of the Republic until the Civil War, the Senate witnessed about one filibuster per decade. As late as the 1960s, Senators filibustered less than 10% of major legislation. But in the '70s, the filibuster rule changed: Senators...
Imagine if another powerful third-party voice were to emerge today, demanding that both parties take real steps to solve problems like global warming and health care - as opposed to the Tea Partyers, who insist that government just get out of the way. Republicans would still disagree profoundly with the Obama Administration's favored remedies, but they would feel greater pressure to amend rather than kill them. Perots would create a countervailing pressure against those partisan zealots who are constantly threatening to punish Republicans for giving the White House an inch. (See pictures of how Presidents age in office...
...nuclear ambitions, which increases their borrowing costs and makes their projects even more expensive. Even with the federal guarantees, the new reactors at Vogtle are expected to boost local electricity bills by 9% - and like most nuke-friendly states, Georgia has enacted a law ensuring that ratepayers won't get their money back if the utility fails to complete the plant...
...plants by 2030 would barely replace aging plants scheduled for decommissioning. And nuclear energy may be the least cost-effective way to reduce greenhouse gases, which is why private investors are pouring billions into efficiency as well as wind, solar and other renewables instead. Taxpayers would get more bang for their energy bucks if their elected representatives made similar choices...