Cynicism and hypocrisy were on full display in the Senate last week when Republican leaders refused to wait for a possible compromise on a bill that would provide health coverage for millions of uninsured children.
With President Bush determined to run out the clock and hand off his failed Iraq policies to his successor, progressives have been playing into the strategy by drifting away from their central principle that a timetable for withdrawal from Iraq … Read more »
Karen Hughes, one of the administration’s longest-serving employees and part of President Bush’s “inner-circle” from his days in Texas, resigned yesterday as Under Secretary of Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs for the State Department.
Though time will certainly tell, the Bush administration so far has not yet surpassed that of Richard Nixon’s in its contempt for a free press and its unrelenting war on the truth.
I had the opportunity to sit down this week with one of America’s top economists, Paul Krugman, who of course doubles as an influential op-ed columnist for the New York Times. It’s more than a bit surprising when the guy … Read more »
Scientists sometimes refer to the effect a hotter world will have on this country’s fresh water as the other water problem, because global warming more commonly evokes the specter of rising oceans submerging our great coastal cities.
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IN a surge of realism, the Senate has voted 75-23 to acknowledge that Iraq has broken up and cannot be put back together.
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AT his confirmation hearings last week, Michael B. Mukasey, President Bush’s nominee for attorney general, was asked whether the president is required to obey federal statutes. Judge Mukasey replied, “That would have to depend on whether what goes outside the … Read more »
The White House severely edited congressional testimony given Tuesday by the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on the impact of climate change on health, removing specific scientific references to potential health risks, according to two sources … Read more »
