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Breaking The Law, Snubbing the Supreme Court

Last year, the Supreme Court ordered the Bush administration to follow the law and treat greenhouse gas emissions as pollution under the Clean Air Act. And the Bush administration quickly snubbed the ruling, by denying states the ability under the Clean Air Act to...

Bush's Global Failure Tour

Yesterday, President Bush was in Israel, and equated speaking with Iran with "the false comfort of appeasement." Today in Saudi Arabia, Bush will likely fail (UPDATE:

Straight Talk On Gas Prices Works

Congress will likely pass legislation to temporarily stop filling the Strategic Petroleum Reserve is because 1) it's harmless legislation and 2) congresspeople can then say they "did something" on gas prices. But by Election Day it will be painfully clear they didn't...

Common Ground Gets You 5¢ a Gallon

Last week, Democrats and Republicans offered energy bills in response to rising gas prices, which clearly laid out the parties contrasting energy visions: investment in renewable energy vs. suspension of environmental standards for drilling and refining oil. As I...

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