The Justice Department is planning on bringing up charges against BP, Haliburton, and Transocean for the oil spill.
Oil prices are starting to rise.
Now you to can have a chicken powered car or plane.
President Obama is in India trying to drum up trade, has endorsed adding India as a permanent seat on the U.N. Security Council, and is starting to get in an argument with Germany over trade policy.
Where almost every other state is struggling, business in Utah is booming.
Medicare is trying to determine if they are going to pay for a $93,000 drug that extends the life of a patient with prostrate cancer for four months.
Healthcare premiums are expected to continue rising and the culprit is… rising healthcare costs and a sluggish economy with just a sprinkle (less than 1%) of the Healthcare Bill.
Politifact has released a couple of ratings today:
- They have given a rating of True to the report that Georgia has the second-fattest kids in the nation. Mississippi is #1.
- It is Barely True that Washington's reach extends to "even telling us what kind of light bulb we can use."
- It is True that "The budget submitted by Obama will add more to the debt than the outstanding debt of the previous 43 presidents combined."
- Finally, a Barely True is given to the following statement from the upcoming House Budget Committee chair, "Discretionary spending went up 84 percent in the last two years"
- In illustrating his point about spending increases under President Obama, Ryan says non-defense discretionary spending has risen 84 percent. There is no doubt that spending is up, or that the one-time stimulus package was a major driver. But sliding the stimulus money from 2009 to 2010 -- whether on a chart or in an interview -- skews the picture.
It’s a nifty accounting maneuver. But still a maneuver. We rate Ryan’s claim Barely True.
So, is Washington telling us what kind of bulb to use?
Not yet, though the 2007 law steps up efficiency requirements and that's expected to result in consumers purchasing and using different bulbs. These factors give Perry's statement an element of truth. We rate it Barely True.
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