Topic - Solyndra

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  House OKs bill to reauthorize Ex-Im bank

  Shrugging off a revolt from fiscally conservative Republican backbenchers, the House on Wednesday pushed through a last-minute bill to reauthorize the U.S. Export-Import Bank, which supports American companies that do business in foreign countries. The bank's current charter expires May 31.

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  HANSON: Cabinet gone wild

  We've had some unusual Cabinet secretaries in past administrations - Earl Butz, John Mitchell and James G. Watt come to mind - but never anything quite like the present bunch.

• Lawyers in Solyndra case rack up billings

  One month after the chief restructuring officer for failed solar panel maker Solyndra reported no wrongdoing by the company, documents show federal investigators have remained busy in recent months scouring the company's financial documents, internal emails and computers.

• LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Tax-and-spend, not capitalism, is a failure

  President Obama has begun a war against free-market capitalism because, he says, we have tried the capitalism approach and it hasn't worked ("Obama attacks inequality while soliciting big-money donors," Web, Tuesday). Where has he been all these years?

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  Stormy weather for solar firms

  In terms of public image, the solar industry isn't having much fun in the sun lately. Many solar firms from around the world have fallen into bankruptcy in a tough environment of increasing competition from cheaper Chinese firms and several cutbacks in subsidies by European governments.

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  Solar Trust files for bankruptcy protection

  The latest setback in a stalled 1,000-megawatt solar plant in the Southern California desert came nearly 10 months after Interior Secretary Kenneth L. Salazar and Gov. Jerry Brown broke ground on what was then touted as the world's largest solar project and a keystone of the Obama administration's solar-energy efforts.

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  Outside group targets Obama's energy record with $3.6M ad buy

  An outside group with ties to conservative causes on Thursday launched a $3.6 million ad buy lashing out at President Barack Obama's energy record, blaming him for rising gas prices and his decision to delay the Keystone XL pipeline project.

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  EDITORIAL: Obama's crony capitalism

  President Obama said in his State of the Union address that one of the American values that must be reclaimed is "an economy where everyone gets a fair shot, and everyone does their fair share, and everyone plays by the same set of rules." For three years, he and his political allies have been undermining this vision. They see government as a means of rewarding their friends and punishing their enemies. For the Obama circle, rules apply only to other people.

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  Congressman irked by Solyndra bonuses, equipment destruction

  The head of a House Energy and Commerce Committee subcommittee investigating the collapse of solar panel maker Solyndra said Friday that tapes showing company workers destroying inventory were "an outrage."

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  Obama's first ad defends failed Solyndra deal

  President Obama's first campaign advertisement pushes back against criticism of the federal loan guarantee for solar panel maker Solyndra and praises his energy record, even as condemnation mounts over his rejection of a $7 billion oil pipeline.

• Inside Politics

  President Obama plans to visit five states after next week's State of the Union address to court voters who will be critical to his re-election campaign.

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  Romney calls Obama a 'crony capitalist'

  Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, seeking to solidify his status as the Republican presidential front-runner, criticized President Obama on Thursday as a "crony capitalist" who meddles recklessly with economic forces he doesn't understand.

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  EDITORIAL: The dirty politics of clean energy

  Disturbing revelations continue to emerge about how more than half a billion dollars of taxpayer dollars were shoveled into the Solyndra solar-panel boondoggle. It is becoming increasingly clear that the only "green" involved in this scandal is money.

• BOOK REVIEW: 'Throw Them All Out'

  Three years ago, then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her husband, Paul, made Hillary Rodham Clinton's success with cattle futures look like a child's lemonade stand. The credit card giant Visa was holding an initial public offering, among the most lucrative ever seen. The Pelosis were granted early access to the IPO as "special customers" who received their shares at the opening price, $44. The lucky investors turned in a 50 percent profit in just two days.

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  EDITORIAL: Solyndra and Keystone: Dual debacles

  President Obama is sticking by his policy of declaring the producers of trendy, impractical energy sources "winners," leaving taxpayers to be the losers. Take the case of the Keystone XL pipeline, which the administration is effectively shutting down in the wake of the scandal surrounding solar-panel maker Solyndra. Stubbornly clinging to environmental fashion over a practical boost to America's energy supply will further cloud America's economic horizon.

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