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Aug 9, 2012 3:25pm Marc Piscotty/Getty Images PUEBLO, Colo. – President Obama today used the issues of wind energy and water purity to draw stark contrasts with Mitt Romney, and attempt to lure some of this state’s environmentally-conscious swing voters to his side.

Obama Hits Romney on Wind, Water Policy in Colorado

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/08/obama-hits-romney-on-wind-water-policy-in-colorado/
Remember the days when you were able to indulge in your favorite fast food items without inciting the ire of political and special interest groups? Well, those days are clearly over. Chick-fil-A, the popular southern-based fast-food chain, has been the focus of media frenzy over donations made by the company’s CEO to political action groups that favor discrimination and intolerance towards gay and lesbian couples. http://wire.kapitall.com/investment-idea/political-foods-stocks-casting-a-vote-with-each-tasty-bite/

Political Foods Stocks: Casting a Vote with Each Tasty Bite

The Era of Politicized Food

http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2012/08/17/the_era_of_politicized_food.html The shooting at the Family Research Council's headquarters faded quickly from the headlines.

Higher education in California: One state, two systems

http://www.economist.com/node/21560290 <a href="//ad.doubleclick.net/jump/teg.tdqk/ak3o/a;subs=n;wsub=n;sdn=n;!c=21560290;dcopt=ist;pos=ldr_top;sz=728x90,970x90,970x250;tile=1;ord=369951795?"
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/02/us/california-cuts-threaten-the-status-of-universities.html?pagewanted=all

California Cuts Threaten the Status of Universities

For generations, the University of California system — home to such globally renowned institutions as Berkeley and — has been widely recognized as perhaps the best example of what public universities could be.

Understanding the California Budget Crisis

Living beyond your means is a sure way to guarantee financial ruin. Today, millions are dealing with the fallout from artificially-inflated real estate values and accessible, unsecured credit. For those recently (or still) in this situation, a number of temporary solutions were once readily available – refinancing, taking out home equity lines, taking on additional credit cards – but, these quick fixes all had one thing in common: they only delayed the inevitable. http://www.mint.com/blog/trends/understanding-the-california-budget-crisis/
http://seekingalpha.com/article/696821-obamacare-part-i-will-insurance-companies-survive

Obamacare Part I - Will Insurance Companies Survive?

Disclosure: I have no positions in any stocks mentioned, but may initiate a short position in AET , UNH , CI , CVH , HUM , WLP over the next 72 hours. Making Money of Off Obamacare: Part I - The Health Insurance companies
Taxes may be certain, but growth and job creation aren't.

When It Comes To Tax Cuts, Neither Side Is Blinking

http://www.npr.org/2012/07/25/157359431/when-it-comes-to-tax-cuts-neither-side-is-blinking
http://www.triplepundit.com/2012/07/global-warming-economic-tax-middle-class/ Given its costs, global warming can now be thought of as an economic tax on the middle class. A recent NOAA report found that 56 percent of the continental U.S. is currently experiencing drought.

Why Global Warming Is Now an Economic Tax on the Middle Class | TriplePundit

North Korean Gives the Games a Dramatic Lift

Mike Groll/Associated Press Om Yun-chol lifted three times his body weight —which only four other lifters have ever done — in winning a gold medal in London.
On his recent trip abroad, Mitt Romney observed an American taboo by not criticizing President Obama’s military policy. But before his trip, he made his position clear. Obama has “exposed the military to cuts that no one can justify,” Romney said.

Military spending shouldn’t be increased - Your Houston News: Opinion

Military costs out of control

With the last two lines of the Adam Chance letter ("More pain for shooting victim," July 29), I agree 100 percent.
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