Corporate “Free Speech”, or The Buying Of America.

It’s understandable the drugmakers would want a roll-call accounting of who their friends and enemies are, considering the size of the investment they are making on Capitol Hill: in the

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Monarch Butterfly Reserve – Another Victim of Climate Change?

The world’s largest reserve for migrating Monarch butterflies, located in the Mexican highlands, is suffering from an infestation of bark beetles similar to outbreaks that have killed millions of acres

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Global Warming? Climate Change?

The globe recorded its second warmest September since record keeping began in 1880, according to NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center. The combined global land and ocean temperature anomaly was 0.62°C

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Just For The “Record”…

Record heat is forecast for today in the Houston area, but by late this afternoon or early evening a blast of cooler Canadian air is expected to drop temperatures through

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Blog Action Day ’09: Climate Change

It’s that time of year again…15 October 2009 is the third Blog Action Day. This year the subject of conversation for the day is “Climate Change”. Close to 7,000 bloggers

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In America, This Should Not Have To Be Said…

Eating a hamburger should not be a death-defying experience. Too often it is. via Editorial – Toxic Hamburgers – NYTimes.com. This is where Food Policy and Health Policy come together.

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A Democrat Speaks Out…Loudly.

“We as a party have spent the last six months, the greatest minds in our party, dwelling on the question, the unbelievably consuming question of how to get Olympia Snowe

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Health Care Reform, Keith Olbermann Comes Out Swinging…

Churchill’s argument was this”I have heard it said that the government had no mandate such a doctrine is wholly inadmissible. The responsibility for the public safety is absolute and requires

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