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Press Release

August 2, 2009

INTERVIEW: Energy bill will gouge seniors; AARP declares opposition

Dear producers:
The ‘Greatest Generation’ may have enough left for one more fight.

Baltimore Gas & Electric’s request for an expedited regulatory review of its smart meter installation program ran into the third rail of American politics last week: the AARP.

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July 29, 2009

INTERVIEW: Climate bill’s tax wolf in ‘free money’ clothing; another disaster like EITC?

Dear producers:
Beware of environmental activists bearing free carbon allowances!

Climate bill supporters are trying to attract Senate votes for Waxman-Markey by touting the free carbon allowances that would be allocated to individual states. An analysis by the World Resources Institute (http://greenhellblog.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/wrifreeallowances.pdf) estimates the range of free carbon allowances for energy consumer assistance programs on a per capita basis at $40/person (California) to $160/person (Wyoming) for the year 2016. The average assistance level is $90/person.

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July 28, 2009

INTERVIEW: Yes, Tennessee, there is nuclear waste in ordinary landfills all over the state, legislators allowed waste from other states as well.

Dear producers and reporters;
Please take a moment to review the alarming story below about a potentially dangerous public health issue.  Unbeknownst to many Tennesseans, state legislators have allowed other states to store their nuclear waste in ordinary landfills around the state.  While most Tennesseans support nuclear power, they do not support putting hazardous waste in landfills near residential areas, and they do not like the notion that their state legislators are so revenue-hungry that they are willing to store waste from other states.  This issue is sure to play a role in the next election cycle.

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July 26, 2009

SEC, CFTC Asked to Investigate Goldman Sachs' Special Privileges Ahead of Cap-and-Trade

Potomac, MD — Today Steve Milloy, publisher of JunkScience.com, released a letter to Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Mary Schapiro and Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chairman Gary Gensler asking for an investigation into loopholes in the law which enable Goldman Sachs an unfair securities market advantage and a unique ability to manipulate commodities markets.

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July 7, 2009

Overstock.com Comments on DeepCapture.com Serialized Article, “Michael Milken, 60,000 Deaths, and The Story of Dendreon”

Salt Lake City, UT - Overstock.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: OSTK) today commented on a recent series of article installments appearing on DeepCapture.com, an investigative journalism web publication co-founded by Patrick Byrne, Chairman and CEO of Overstock.com.
 

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June 30, 2009

Overstock.com Reinstates California-based Internet Affiliate Advertisers Based on Governor's Veto; Governor's Office Reassures: 'No New Taxes'

Salt Lake City, UT - Overstock.com, Inc. (Nasdaq: OSTK) today reversed its decision to drop its California-based affiliate advertisers following an afternoon call from Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's Office, during which the discount e-tailer was assured that the Governor's rejection last night of the affiliate nexus tax bill will stand.

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June 30, 2009

Overstock.com Drops Internet Affiliate Advertisers in California, Hawaii, North Carolina and Rhode Island; States’ Tax Plans Backfire as Prominent E-tailer Cancels Contracts

Salt Lake City, UT - Overstock.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: OSTK) today sent notices to all of its affiliate advertisers in California, Hawaii, North Carolina and Rhode Island that it is dropping their services owing to imminent passage of laws requiring internet retailers to collect taxes if they have local affiliate advertisers.

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June 25, 2009

Waxman's Economy Killer

The House of Representatives will vote Friday on the so-called “American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009” -- a.k.a the “Waxman-Markey” global warming bill. But whatever you want to call this legislative atrocity, if enacted into law, it will go down in history as the death knell of the American standard of living and way of life. If you hate America, this bill is for you.

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June 24, 2009

New Jersey Education Documentary At Philadelphia Film Festival

Teaneck, NJ -- The Cartel, a new feature-length documentary about the waste, fraud and mismanagement within New Jersey public schools, will premiere at the Philadelphia Independent Film Festival, Pennsylvania’s most prestigious platform for original, new cinema. The screening will be on Saturday, June 27th, at 10pm at the Philadelphia Soundstages on 1600 North 5th Street in Philadelphia.

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June 24, 2009

EPA Suppresses Internal Global Warming Study

Washington D.C. The Competitive Enterprise Institute today charged that a senior official of the U.S. Environment Protection Agency actively suppressed a scientific analysis of climate change because of political pressure to support the Administration’s policy agenda of regulating carbon dioxide.

As part of a just-ended public comment period, CEI submitted a set of four EPA emails, dated March 12-17, 2009, which indicate that a significant internal critique of the agency’s global warming position was put under wraps and concealed.

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