From Georgia

ATLANTA (February 14, 2009) - Governor Sonny Perdue announced that the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Thomas J. Vilsack has declared seven eligible Georgia counties disaster areas as a result of the damage sustained from an early frost. The designation was sent in response to Governor Perdue's request submitted in December.

If you things were already rocky, be prepared to get rolled - The Reporter

The author is a faculty member, economist and contributing scholar with The Center for Vision & Values at Grove City College in Pennsylvania.
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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's testimony during her confirmation hearings epitomizes Obama's priorities. Despite multiple risks to American interests around the globe, Clinton declared that her top priority was to place Americans under the control of multilateral global-warming agreements. Do Secretary Clinton and President Obama really believe that American interests will be advanced by curtailing our consumption of energy, thereby further slowing economic growth in the midst of a severe recession?

Joining Mrs. Clinton in putting growth-killing measures such as carbon taxes at the top of this year's policy agenda are Secretary of Energy Steven Chu and environmental/climate
"czarina" Carole Browner. Chu is a global-warming alarmist who has echoed Obama's rhetoric about reducing our consumption of coal (which generates half our country's electricity) by making it prohibitively expensive to burn. Browner, since serving as the heavy-handed administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency under Clinton-Gore, has more recently held a leadership position on a socialist international committee dedicated to transferring wealth from the United States to much of the rest of the world.