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Not so crazy? Reuters probes idea of nuking BP oil well

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His face wracked by age and his voice rasping after decades of chain-smoking coarse tobacco, the former long-time Russian minister of nuclear energy and veteran Soviet physicist Viktor Mikhailov knows just how to fix BP’s oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico. “A nuclear explosion over the leak,” he says nonchalantly puffing a cigarette as he sits in a conference room at the Institute of Strategic Stability, where he is a director. “I don’t know what BP is waiting for, they…

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Bill Clinton: We may have to blow up oil well

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Former President Bill Clinton said during a panel discussion in South Africa that it may become necessary to blow up the Deepwater Horizon well that continues to spew oil into the Gulf of Mexico. Watch the video here. His comments on the leak start about 2:30 in. “Unless we send the Navy down deep to blow up the well and cover the leak with piles and piles and piles of rock and debris, which may become necessary – you don’t have…

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Bill McCollum faces an uphill fight to regain the initiative

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If the rest of Florida sounded like the crowds huddled at the state Republican Party quarterly business meeting, GOP gubernatorial hopeful Bill McCollum wouldn’t be facing a potential primary defeat to a health-care millionaire waging his first race for public office. Around the Hyatt Tampa Bay, signs adorned the halls that read “Bush would vote for Bill McCollum.” Longtime political allies spoke well of the man from Longwood who spent two decades in Congress, who helped lead the impeachment of President…

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Rahm Emanuel expected to quit White House

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Washington insiders say he will quit within six to eight months in frustration at their unwillingness to “bang heads together” to get policy pushed through. Mr Emanuel, 50, enjoys a good working relationship with Mr Obama but they are understood to have reached an understanding that differences over style mean he will serve only half the full four-year term. Friends say he is also worried about burnout and losing touch with his young family due to the pressure of one…

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Why is the GOP dragging him into this? NRSC asks Kendrick Meek for stance on Obama’s job offer scandal

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I don’t understand why Kendrick Meek is being dragged into this? rom the Republican National Senatorial Committee: As the Obama White House continues to withhold the details of their attempt to push U.S. Representative Joe Sestak (D-PA) from the Pennsylvania Democrat Senate primary, the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) called on U.S. Representative Kendrick Meek (D-FL) to tell voters exactly where he stands on the Obama Administration’s politicization of taxpayer-funded jobs and their refusal to tell Americans the whole truth…

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Why is the GOP dragging him into this? NRSC asks Kendrick Meek for stance on Obama’s job offer scandal

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I don’t understand why Kendrick Meek is being dragged into this. rom the Republican National Senatorial Committee: As the Obama White House continues to withhold the details of their attempt to push U.S. Representative Joe Sestak (D-PA) from the Pennsylvania Democrat Senate primary, the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) called on U.S. Rep. Kendrick Meek (D-FL) to tell voters exactly where he stands on the Obama Administration’s politicization of taxpayer-funded jobs and their refusal to tell Americans the whole truth…

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RedState’s Erick Erickson finally weighs in on GOP primary in Florida governor’s race

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For conservatives trying to figure out whether to back Bill McCollum or Skeletor, Erick Erickson has spoken, although all he really says is that the Clintons are, of course, to blame for Rick Scott’s problems: Truth be told, McCollum has paid his dues. He’s been around for a while. I don’t blame him for acting badly. But here’s the thing — McCollum is a hero to a lot of conservatives because he helped impeach Bill Clinton. But Rick Scott is…

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