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  ThinkFast: November 21, 2008

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  ThinkFast: November 21, 2008 By Think Progress at 9:01 am ThinkFast: November 21, 2008» President-elect Obama will reportedly nominate Hillary Clinton as his secretary of state after Thanksgiving and may tap ret. Gen. Jim Jones as his National Security Adviser. Obama is “getting foreign policy advice from an unlikely source: Republican Brent Scowcroft, who was national security adviser in the first Bush administration.” Obama will not immediately move to repeal the U.S. military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy which bans openly gay individuals from serving. Obama reportedly “first wants to confer with the Joint Chiefs of Staff and his new political appointees at the Pentagon to reach a consensus and then present legislation to Congress.” Attorney General Michael Mukasey collapsed last night while speaking at the Federalist Society’s annual gathering. Mukasey, who spent the night in the hospital for observation, is alert and “in good spirits,” according to a Justice Department spokesperson. An individual who witnessed Mukasey’s collapse said he was “visibly shaking and perhaps slurring his words before he fell to the floor.” Big Oil is “firing up” its efforts to push for more domestic oil development. The American Petroleum Institute is “preparing a multimillion-dollar campaign” that will include an education program called American’s Energy Forum and “a wide array of advertising and lobbying efforts on Capitol Hill.” The Bush administration is finalizing changes to the Endangered Species Act ensuring that agencies would not have to take global warming into account when assessing risks to plants and animals. John Kostyak of the National Wildlife Federation said the rule, for example, would “block federal officials from considering a carbon cap” to preserve polar bear’

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