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The Charge of the Media Brigade
Washington - The TV anchorwoman was conducting a split screen interview with a journalist who had volunteered to be a witness at the execution of a man on death …
Europe Puts Limits on Banker Bonuses
The European Parliament passed a bill today that would cap and defer financial traders' and bankers' bonuses, giving Europe the toughest regimes in the world. The caps are a …
News in Brief: Gulf Awash in Abandoned Oil and Gas Wells, and More
The Gulf Coast is awash with both temporarily and permanently abandoned oil and gas wells that largely have been ignored by both government and industry, leading experts to fear …
Climate Change: Are People the Problem?
There is no doubt about it: people are changing the Earth's climate. The evidence for what scientists call “anthropogenic climate change” is overwhelming, notwithstanding the obfuscation efforts of the …
EPA to Crack Down on Interstate Pollutants From Power Plants
Washington - The Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday proposed a new federal plan to reduce the pollution from electric power plants that wafts hundreds of miles across state lines. …
Hamas Lawmaker: Gaza Flotilla Did More Than 10,000 Rockets
Who now doubts that strategic nonviolent action can transform the politics of the Israel/Palestine conflict? Not Hamas parliamentarian Aziz Dweik, The Wall Street Journal reports: "When we use …
E.J. Dionne Jr. | Let Steele Speak
Washington - It's easy to understand why Democrats want Michael Steele to stay in the news. The Republican National Committee chairman is a wonderful distraction, a constant source of …
Two for One: Guantanamo Won’t Close, but Illinois Supermax Will Open
Obama’s oath to close the military detention camp at Guantanamo Bay within a year of his election was more than a campaign promise or a post-inauguration executive order; for …
What Eisenhower Could Teach Obama, Part I
Fifty years ago, President Dwight D. Eisenhower told his senior advisers in the Oval Office of the White House, “God help this country when someone sits in this chair …
Put Reporters on the Ground and Ground the Helicopters
Moments after the 1992 not guilty verdict came down in the Rodney King trial, the first violence I witnessed at the Los Angeles county courthouse came from a white …