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From Obama’s own website, a post touting his endorsement by ACORN’s PAC early this year: Alicia Russell of Arizona, ACORN’s western regional representative, said Obama relates to the issues facing low- and moderate-income people.

The campaign released a detailed economic rescue blueprint today (available here as a downloadable PDF). The plan’s only seven pages, so I urge all of you who are interested to download it and give it a thorough read. It’s well-written, in generally plain language, and you don’t have to be NOBEL PRIZE WINNER Paul Krugman to grasp the basics.

According to Bloomberg, Barack Obama has been busy advocating for a moratorium on foreclosures. Democrat Barack Obama is proposing lifting penalties for withdrawals of up to $10,000 from retirement accounts and imposing a 90-day moratorium on foreclosures on some homeowners as part of a plan to boost the economy and aid middle-income taxpayers.

Barack Obama’s proposals include penalty-free access to retirement savings and a moratorium on home foreclosures.

As part of releasing more details on his economic plan, Barack Obama has also called for a 90-day moratorium on foreclosures. From the L.A. Times: Democrat Barack Obama today called for a moratorium on mortgage foreclosures as part of a package of proposals to deal with the impact of the current

In the last few months, there has been an unprecendented level of attention to the production of energy in the ocean off the coast of the United States. Although much of this attention has been focused on the short-sited lifting of the moratorium on offshore oil and gas drilling, there is also an encouraging wave of action to develop renewable energy projects in the ocean.

Last week I wrote about how Congress allowed the 26-year-old federal offshore drilling moratorium to expire, but I noted that the issue is not a done deal. Lo and behold, Rep. Nick Rahall (D-WV), chair of the House Natural Resources Committee, was quoted in a Greenwire story today that revisiting

Steel prices in India set to go down, says government October 5th, 2008 - 6:34 pm ICT by IANS - New Delhi, Oct 5 (IANS) India's steel sector is due for a boom phase that will lead to prices falling, said a key member of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's cabinet here Sunday.“Steel ...

Britney is on the comeback trail, that's for sure. She's got "Circus" coming out in a couple of months, the first track ("Womanizer") is already a hit, and we haven't seen any crazy head-shaving moments in quite a while. Disappointing. Some say her father, Jamie, is the reason she's doing so well lately.