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...Palin's natural resource commissioner, Tom Irwin, said the governor didn't push the Sempra option with DOE because "it never came up in discussions that there was a competing market or a competing desire." But she didn't raise the idea, either, he said. The volumes of gas were so small, it didn't seem worthy of consideration. He said Palin has focused on a bigger payoff: construction of a 1700 mile pipeline to the lower 48 that could catalyze gas production on Alaska's North Slope...
...produced an agreement. Analysts for the credit rating company A.M. Best have downgraded their outlook for insurance companies, but they say the companies have weathered the financial crisis better than banks and investment houses so far. While warning that "nobody is immune" in such a dismal financial market, analyst Tom Rosendale says customers aren't facing an immediate collapse of the major insurance companies. "At the end of the day," he says, "I don't think people should be panicking about their insurance companies just...
...Brokaw, Tom • ability of to see debate teleprompter is impeded by heads of Obama and McCain •improbability of future career as McCain's treasury secretary...
...According to Tom Minnery, vice president of the conservative organization Focus on the Family, Palin "is absolutely unashamed of her faith ... She is from the heart of Evangelicalism, a Bible church. There are just millions of Evangelicals who know how to place her because of that church connection." But Palin herself has at times consciously distanced herself from her Evangelical faith. When asked by ABC's Charlie Gibson about a comment for which she has been criticized - asking her former congregation to pray that U.S. soldiers in Iraq are "on a task that is from God" - Palin argued that...
...Barack Obama is elected president of the United States on Nov. 4 - a prospect that is beginning to seem likely now - it may turn out that he closed the deal with a simple answer to a not-so-simple question posed by Tom Brokaw in the second presidential debate: "Is health care in America a privilege, a right or a responsibility?" This is familiar territory for Democrats. The question was framed many years ago by Senator Ted Kennedy, who must have been smiling up on Cape Cod. "Health care should be a right, not a privilege," Kennedy would...