....Logically, if concerns such as DRS Technologies of Parsippany and Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken get millions in earmarks, as they do, it's no shock that officials with the company and the college are going to contribute to the congressman, in this case, Frelinghuysen, who got them the money.
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Stories of Chinese hackers causing blackouts in Florida and the Northeast have had the blogosphere on fire for days. False alarm: The real threat comes from physical terrorist attacks on the world’s largest machine — the U.S. power grid.
The Northeast blackout of 2003 began in Eastlake, Ohio, but didn’t just take out power to that one small town. Due to the structure of our power grid, a problem in that one local station cascaded down, cutting power to 20 million people. The blackout, which covered almost 10,000 square miles, resulted in economic losses estimated at over $6 billion.
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Ron Paul -- Oil prices are on the minds of many Americans as gas hits $4 a gallon, and continues to surge. How high can prices go? How can we solve these problems? What, or who, is to blame?
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