From an email I just got, sent with the pic you see at the left: one of the billionaire Koch Brothers admitted on television last night that they want something in return for the millions they’re spending to elect Republicans …
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Exaggerations in American Politics
I just received this: Ten days ago, Ben Carson went on national television and said that legal abortion is like slavery. He compared young girls who had been raped to slaveholders. And the NBC/Wall Street Journal poll released just yesterday …
An Incredible Week for the Environment, Sponsored By People Who Care—and Apparently, There Are a Heck of a Lot of Them
The good people at Environmental Action, environmental-action.org, sent me this: Breaking: Yesterday the New York Attorney General announced an investigation into whether Exxon lied about climate change. Today, President Obama officially blocked the Keystone XL oil pipeline. Tonight MSNBC’s Rachel …
They’re Called “Amendments” for a Very Important Reason
96 years ago today, Congress passed the Volstead Act, which provided for enforcement of the 18th Amendment to the Constitution, prohibiting the sale of alcohol. As we all know, this was overturned in the early 1930s. Relevance? The U.S. Constitution, …
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Strange Doings in American Politics
A friend sent me this piece on the demise of Jeb Bush’s candidacy for president of the United States in 2016. I wrote back: That’s remarkable.
Do You Know What Ben Carson Believes? Holy Mackerel.
How is it possible to be a brilliant neurosurgeon and a thoroughgoing crackpot at the same time? I honestly don’t have a clue, but almost everything that comes out of Ben Carson’s mouth should alarm the living hell out of …
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House of the Future? Let’s Hope Not
Here’s a vision of the house of the future that I wanted to share, largely to make this point: it’s 399 square feet. That’s only a little larger than the size of a prison cell for the top white collar criminals …
Regulating Power Plant Emissions: In the US, Nothing Comes Easy
Yesterday morning, West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey led a coalition of 24 states in filing a lawsuit to prohibit the EPA from implementing its groundbreaking limits on the amount of harmful carbon pollution power plants can spew into our …
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Glenn Doty: As a Senior Energy Analyst, He’s No Stranger To Doing the Numbers
I’ve had the pleasure of hanging out with some enormously bright people in my day, but I’m not sure I’ve ever met someone with a stronger facility for math and science than our frequent participator here Glenn Doty (though a …
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Another High Five to the Obama Administration on Environmental Protection
It wasn’t but a couple of years ago that I was in a funk about the Obama Administration and the meager progress it had made on environmental issues. I’m so happy to be eating my words, based on what’s happened …
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