In one of the scarier predictions about oncoming climate change, warming permafrost releases vast amounts of methane, a much more potent, though shorter lived, greenhouse gas than CO2. Instead of … [Keep reading >>]
Al Gore has a long, important opinion piece in the NY Times: We Can’t Wish Away Climate Change. Joe Romm at Climate Progress posts it with lots of links to … [Keep reading >>]
A great earthquake with magnitude 8.8 rocked the coast of Chile at 6:34 GMT this morning, generating a potentially dangerous tsunami that is racing across the Pacific Ocean. The great … [Keep reading >>]
Greece has been in the news for a host of bad reasons in the past weeks. Essentially the country, like much of the US, has been living off of ever-inflating … [Keep reading >>]
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If we’re lucky, Thursday’s summit will turn out to have been the last act in the great health reform debate, the prologue to passage of an imperfect but nonetheless history-making … [Keep reading >>]
Even as the Great Obstructionist Party sat through a 6 hour meeting with President Obama and could find nothing good to say about health reform plans, Blue Shield of California … [Keep reading >>]
The Bush White House must have been plagued with Chinese hackers given the rate at which relevant e-mail and other documents have disappeared from its computers. Now it appears that … [Keep reading >>]
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Less than 48 hours after the New York Times revealed in a bombshell story that the administration of Gov. David Paterson had intervened in the domestic violence case of a … [Keep reading >>]
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“Terrorists” are Muslims who dislike the U.S., while Americans — especially ones who are white and non-Muslim — cannot, by definition, qualify.
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