The 2006 Democratic Message: Save the Country
It's time for everyone to stop whining about what the message of the Democratic Party in the fall elections should be and step up to the plate with the only message that can win: save the country, save...
View ArticleThe Rise of "The Axis of Oil"--Big Trouble for the U.S.
(crossposted at Global Public media )At a hearing on January 10th before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, a panel of witnesses presented testimony about the geopolitics of oil that...
View Article"The Biggest Market Failure the World Has Ever Seen"
Global warming is sweeping Capitol Hill. Tuesday featured three different committee hearings, with the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee featuring heavy-hitter Sir Nicholas Stern. Stern is...
View ArticleRoses, Rings, and Manure: The Carbon-Neutral Wedding
Back in the days before the Internet (if you can imagine back that far), there were magazines. If you went into any half-way decent news stand, you could find me somewhere towards the back looking for...
View Article"If You Don't Build It, They Will Come": The Evolving West
Watching a new paradigm about energy and climate change grabbing hold in the U.S. Congress is a fascinating sight, even if the process is still agonizingly slow in comparison to the rate at which the...
View ArticleLive Blog: Women's Health and Enviro Conference
This diary is Part II of today's live blog on a major conference in Pittsburgh, PA on Women's Health and The Environment: New Science, New Solutions. Some of the leading scientists in the field are...
View ArticleLive Blogging Mike Gravel's Press Conference to End the War
Live blogging from Mike Gravel, who has a plan to end the war by Labor Day.
View ArticleBarbara Kingsolver Video on Local Food
Watch Barbara Kingsolver talk about her new book, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle and her experiment with her family of eating only local foods for a year.http://globalpublicmedia.com/...
View ArticleWhat Did John Conyers Want?
What did John Conyers want?That’s the question I kept asking myself while watching the highly stylized kabuki-theater-like unfolding of the impeachment drama yesterday afternoon outside Conyers'...
View ArticleAfrican Americans, This Way to the (Menthol) Gas
What does it feel like to wake up in the morning, get out of bed, have a little breakfast, and then head off to work knowing that this day, like all the days before, what you do will unobtrusively and...
View ArticleLying our Way to Tyranny
On the morning of 9/11, I was enjoying the cloudless blue-sky vista out of my office window overlooking Dupont Circle, when someone yelled to check out the office TV about a plane crash in New York....
View ArticleMcCain: On a box or lifts?
I have a reliable source with access to negotiations about the production of tonight's debate. Whether McCain shows or not, his team is proceeding as if he were going to be there. Latest sticky point:...
View ArticleSarah the Debate Zombie
Sarah Palin lost this debate when she was unable to summon even a scintilla of human kindness after an emotional answer from Biden.The defining moment came towards the end of the debate,right after Joe...
View ArticleObama: Really Put the Nuclear Genie Back in the Bottle
If Obama is truly serious about eliminating the threat of nuclear weapons once and for all, then he should also be considering the elimination of nuclear power.Here's the problem: fissionable atoms...
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