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Will 'Bloom Box' Be the Next Big Thing in Energy?
By David Knowles - AOL News(Feb. 25) -- In a much-hyped product rollout that began on last week's "60 Minutes," Bloom Energy this week publicly unveiled what might just be the future of clean energy. Dubbed the Bloom Box, the company's refrigerator-sized fuel-cell-powered generator has the tech world buzzing. With the promise of freeing consumers from the dependency of power company grids, the developers boast of producing massive amounts of cheap energy. Paul Sakuma, AP KR Sridhar, co-founder and CEO of Bloom Energy, poses next to Bloom Energy power servers at eBay offices in San Jose, Calif., on Wednesday. The ...
Generals Fire Back at Dick Cheney
By Steve Pendlebury - AOL News(Feb. 22) -- Two of the nation's best-known military figures are challenging former Vice President Dick Cheney's criticism of the Obama administration. Gen. David Petraeus, head of the U.S. Central Command, and Colin Powell, who chaired the Joint Chiefs of Staff and served as secretary of state, defended the president on Sunday morning talk shows after fresh attacks by Cheney and his daughter, Liz, at last week's Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). The ex-VP got into a TV duel with Vice President Joe Biden the previous weekend over the administration's approach to fighting ...
Colin Powell Interviewed on CBS' 'Face the Nation'
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyCBS'S "FACE THE NATION" FEBRUARY 21, 2010 SPEAKERS: BOB SCHIEFFER, HOST COLIN POWELL, FORMER SECRETARY OF STATE [*] SCHIEFFER: Today on "Face the Nation," an exclusive interview with Colin Powell. He holds a unique place in American life -- soldier, diplomat, adviser to both Republican and Democratic presidents. What does he make of the Washington gridlock? Does he think the system is broken? What would he do to fix it? We'll ask him. Then I'll have a personal thought on why Washington doesn't listen. Or does it? It's all next on "Face the Nation." Good morning again. The former ...
Obama, Republicans Get Advice and Criticism About Political Gridlock
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyPresident Obama and congressional Republicans got advice and criticism Sunday -- sometimes from members of their own parties -- for the partisan gridlock that has stalled action on health care, the economy and other key issues. The discussion of gridlock and partisanship coincided with release of a CNN/Opinion Research poll that said 81 percent of Americans believe the U.S. system of government is broken, but can be fixed. Fourteen percent said it was not broken and 5 percent said it was broken and could not be fixed. California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who often finds himself at ...
Colin Powell Now Says Gays Should Serve Openly
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (Feb. 3) -- Colin Powell, who as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the 1990s led the opposition to letting gays serve openly in the military, said today he had changed his mind. "In the almost 17 years since the 'don't ask, don't tell' legislation was passed, attitudes and circumstances have changed," the former secretary of state said in a statement. "I fully support the new approach presented to the Senate Armed Services Committee this week by Secretary of Defense (Robert) Gates and Admiral (Michael) Mullen." Abaca Press / MCT Retired Gen. Colin Powell says he has changed ...
Colin Powell Portrait Unveiled to Tears and Cheers
By Emily Miller - Politics DailyGen. Colin Powell returned to the State Department Monday for an emotional unveiling of his official Secretary of State portrait. Powell and current Secretary of State Hillary Clinton presided over the unveiling of the portrait, which will hang with those of the other former secretaries of State in the secretary's suite of offices. When Powell was introduced to speak in the Ben Franklin room on the top floor at the department, the crowd cheered and applauded loudly. Powell was surrounded his immediate family -- wife Alma Powell, daughter Linda Powell, son Michael Powell, daughter-in-law ...
Emily's Post: From Gossip Fodder to Gossip Columnist
By Emily Miller - Politics DailyHaving been fodder for every gossip column in town, starting today I'm turning the tables -- and becoming one D.C. gossip columnist who fully gets what it's like to be on the receiving end. Everybody knows Washington politics is not for the meek or thin-skinned. And I've lived, worked and loved D.C. politics and media since I was 18 years old. In the years since, I've toiled on the Hill, at the State Department, in the Bush 43 administration, and for the Washington bureaus of two TV network news divisions. I've also counted chads in the Florida recount, run for my life from the Capitol on ...
Damon Weaver, 11-Year-Old Reporter, Grills President Obama
By David Knowles - Politics DailyConsider the brief journalistic career of Damon Weaver, a fifth-grader at Florida's Kathryn E. Cunningham Canal Point Elementary. Since joining his school's television station (KEC TV), he has covered the presidential election of '08 (eventually landing an interview with Joe Biden), attended the inauguration, and then gone on to snag airtime with the likes of Oprah Winfrey, Colin Powell, Paula Abdul, Norah O'Donnell, David Gregory, Caroline Kennedy, Meghan Kelly, Dwayne Wade, L.L. Cool J, Jordan Sparks and Major Garrett. His high-profile interviews have been so noteworthy that Weaver himself ...
Colin Powell Wonders If Palin Quit for 'Wonderful World of Speaking'
By Emily Miller - Politics DailyFormer Secretary of State Colin Powell called former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin "a fascinating figure," but said "I don't think she was ready to be president of the United States last fall when she was named the vice presidential candidate." ...
Colin Powell: Skip Gates Could Have Avoided Arrest
By Emily Miller - Politics DailyGen. Colin Powell says that Harvard Professor Henry Louis "Skip" Gates could have avoided arrest and the ensuing controversy by just talking calmly to Cambridge, Mass., Police Sgt. James Crowley and coming outside his house. "I'm saying Skip, perhaps in this instance, might have waited a while, come outside, talked to the officer and that might have been the end of it," Powell says in an interview with Larry King, airing Tuesday night on CNN. Embedded video from <a href="http://www.cnn.com/video">CNN Video</a> Powell added that the whole ...
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