As we see during most heat waves, the number of people who believe climate change is happening peaking. During cold spells in the winter, the number dives. This reminds me of one of the biggest problem in creating long-term environmental reform--everybody believes their personal experience...
Month: July 2012
At least because of fanatical Republican devotion to opposing any tax increases Erskine Bowles and the various other pain caucus scolds who don't care about unemployment can't damage the economy.
The Obama campaign's response to Romney's whining was indeed appropriate.
Normally, legislators who actually care about improving things are at an inherent disadvantage when negotiating with conservatives or venal "centrists." Joe Lieberman can get his "get rid of something because it will piss off liberals this week even if it's what I favored last week"...
In recent weeks we've made a couple of visits to our friends at Rutgers-Camden, where we found them struggling to fill even half their normal incoming class, offering to admit.
And this is a development: A suicide bomber attacked a building used by security chiefs in central Damascus on Wednesday, state media said, killing the defense minister, Daoud Rajha, the.
Was on the Alyona Show last night with Ali Gharib. I had lighting issues.
As you've probably heard from your favorite right-wing think tank by now, nearly half of all Americans pay no federal income taxes. The usual reason is that these people don't.
I've always considered this term an oxymoron. Anybody who knows anything about Burke gets this. Ideally my students get it as well, given that they should know some of what.
James Holmes on INS Vikramaditya vs. The Chinese-carrier-to-be-named-later: And to be sure, the Varyag will reportedly carry about 26 fixed-wing combat aircraft—the official People’s Daily speculated that J-15s will operate from its deck for the first time during the ongoing shakedown—and about 24 helicopters. (I hem-and-haw on the exact...
I can see why presidential campaigns would want to approve the quotes the media uses in its stories. I think it is cowardly and awful of the media to allow.
Turning downtown Springfield, Oregon into a Simpsons-themed shopping district actually makes a tiny bit of sense, as cheesy as it would be, considering that downtown Springfield reminds one of a.