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Texas or California: Which is America’s future?

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Texas economic freedom reduces poverty – DeVore Demographers estimate that in less than 30 years America will be “majority-minority,” with the white, non-Hispanic population dipping to under 50 percent. The future has already arrived in California, Hawaii, New Mexico, and Texas. Of those four states, California and Texas have demographic profiles most closely matching our nation’s demographic future. Which […]

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Obama to appear at fundraiser hosted by Keystone XL opponent, as decision awaited

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Keystone XL pipeline in limbo as Obama dithers over permit With a decision looming on the Keystone XL pipeline, President Barack Obama is scheduled to appear at a fundraiser hosted by a prominent pipeline opponent. The president will speak Friday at a fundraiser in California hosted by the so-called green billionaire Tom Steyer, who has

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Right-wing foundation for clean energy launches ClearPath.org

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ClearPath intends to mobilze center-right voters in run up to 2016 election Why should the left have all the fun? That’s the question being asked – and answered – by conservative climate change activist Jay Faison as he launches his $165 million foundation, ClearPath. The North Carolina-based organization will make strategic grants for research and policy development, and

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Texas budget a true conservative document, say supporters

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Texas budget analysis by Talmadge Heflin, director, and Vance Ginn, economist, of Center for Fiscal Policy Before the 2015 Legislative Session, the Texas Public Policy Foundation and the other 14 member organizations of the Conservative Texas Budget Coalition recommended a Texas budget, shown in Chart 1, that increased the budget by no more than population growth plus inflation

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OPEC lowers targets, defiant Saudi Arabia, Iran to pump more crude

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Current prices below most OPEC members’ break-even point Defying OPEC attempts to project unity, Iran and Saudi Arabia went into a meeting of the 12-nation cartel Friday declaring that they would not cede authority to the organization over how much oil they could sell. Though oil ministers of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries were expected to keep

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Alberta Clipper pipeline target of ‘Tar Sands Resistance March’

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Alberta Clipper pipeline not only target. Activists also oppose Sandpiper, Line 3 replacement Minnesota eco-activists have organized the “Tar Sands Resistance March” to protest shipping Canadian crude oil through an expanded Alberta Clipper pipeline. The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission will decide whether the separate Sandpiper pipeline from the North Dakota oilfields is needed. Meanwhile, American Indian tribes that feel shut

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Republicans confront Obama over global warming, EPA rules

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Obama fighting GOP-dominated Congress over his environmental legacy The Obama administration says a new federal rule regulating small streams and wetlands will protect the drinking water of more than 117 million people in the country. Not so, insist Republicans. They say the rule is a massive government overreach that could even subject puddles and ditches

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