by Joshua Ferrer | Jul 9, 2015 | Climate
House Republican leadership pulled a monstrosity of an appropriations bill from the floor after Democrats attached an amendment that would ban Confederate flags from federal cemeteries. That upset some Republican House members, who then offered an amendment to roll...
by Bill Scher | Jun 25, 2015 | Blog, Climate
Republicans, who have complained for years that the Left wants to drum religious voices out of the "public square," suddenly want the Pope to stick to Sunday mass. "I think religion ought to be about making us better as people and less about things that end up getting...
by Bill Scher | Jun 18, 2015 | Blog, Climate
Twenty years ago Pope John Paul II delivered an encyclical, an authoritative letter to all Catholic bishops, that urged them to champion a "culture of life," by opposing abortion, contraception, euthanasia, war and capital punishment. Republican politicians quickly...
by Joshua Ferrer | Jun 11, 2015 | Climate
Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) and Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) waded deep into enemy territory Wednesday by introducing their revamped carbon tax bill at a conservative think-tank, the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). The “American Opportunity Carbon Fee Act of...
by Jim Hightower | May 21, 2015 | Climate, Conservatism, Current Issues
It’s well-known that harsh climate conditions can mess with your mind — from cabin fever to heat delirium. But America is now experiencing an even more dangerous disease: Climaticus Non-Vocalism Extremism. This syndrome almost exclusively afflicts a narrow segment of...
by Bill Scher | Apr 30, 2015 | Blog, Climate
Pope Francis is preparing to deliver a major "encyclical," or address to clergy, that declares preventing a climate crisis to be a moral imperative. This will be a landmark moment: the marriage of faith and science by one of the world's most influential religious...