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Al Gore Mea Culpa: Support for Corn-Based Ethanol Was a Mistake
By Tom Diemer
Now he tells us. Al Gore says his support for corn-based ethanol subsidies while serving as vice president was a mistake that had more to do with his desire to cultivate farm votes in the 2000 presidential election than with what was good for the environment. "It is not a good policy to have these ...
Zombie Nation: A Political Virus in the Walking Dead Among Us
By Suzi Parker
Good-bye, vampires. We have become a zombie nation. And not just because of the millions of anti-depressants prescribed each year by doctors. Zombies, the flesh-eating, brain-hungry ghouls, tap into a national sentiment of impending doom and isolation. Zombies are currently red hot and ...
The Elections: What's at Stake for Congress? Everything.
By Patricia Murphy
No matter what happens on Election Day, we already know several things about the next Congress. For the first time in nearly a half century, no member of the Kennedy family will be serving under the Capitol dome. Also missing from the halls of Congress will be many of the Democratic old bulls who ...
Global Warming: Taking a Look at the Partisan Divide Over the Evidence
By Bruce Drake
The New York Times had a story the other day saying "skepticism and outright denial of global warming are among the articles of faith of the Tea Party movement," and a new Pew research Center poll certainly underlines the partisan and ideological divide when it comes to the issue. The Pew poll, ...
California Voters to Decide on Pot, Global Warming, Fiscal Affairs
By Lou Cannon
California's long-running love affair with "direct democracy" will be tested in the November election as entrepreneurs and interest groups seek voter approval of nine initiatives, two of which have national implications. Proposition 23 would suspend California's unique global warming law, which ...
Bill Clinton's Global Initiative: High Rollers Brainstorm Disaster Relief
By Alex Wagner
The Big Dog is back. To the triumphant strains of John Williams, former president Bill Clinton took to the stage to open the 2010 Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) Annual Meeting in New York on Tuesday morning. In the audience of 1,300 were 67 heads of state from 90 countries and six continents, 600 ...
A GOP Senate Would Battle Obama on the Surface, But Itself Within
By Patricia Murphy
As President Obama crisscrossed the country over the summer, he repeatedly warned his town hall audiences that the direction of the country is at stake in the upcoming midterm elections. "You have to put the car in 'D' to go forward, and put it in 'R' if you want to go in reverse," he riffed. The ...
Faith Influences Views on Abortion More Than It Shapes Attitudes on Social Justice
By David Gibson
Americans are much more likely to say that religion shapes their political views on hot-button issues like abortion and gay marriage than they are to say that their faith drives their opinions on social justice questions like poverty, immigration and the environment -- even though clergy regularly ...
Rodney Glassman vs. John McCain: A David and Goliath Senate Fight in Arizona
By Jill Lawrence
PHOENIX -- Rodney Glassman, the Democrat who will face Republican Sen. John McCain this fall, is a big believer in credentials. He's punched every imaginable ticket and then some. Bachelor's degree, master's in business administration, master's in public administration, Ph.D. in arid land resource ...
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