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Heartland’s Taylor fails to discredit authors of National Climate Assessment

by on January 31, 2013 in Environment & Nature, Politics, Law & Government, Science & Technology

Heartland Institute senior fellow James Taylor’s tries – and fails – to discredit the draft National Climate Assessment by attacking a small minority of the Assessment’s authors.

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Nota Bene #122: OWStanding

by on October 20, 2011 in Features, Nota Bene, Photography

“When I lie on the beach there naked, which I do sometimes, and I feel the wind coming over me and I see the stars up above and I am looking into this very deep, indescribable night, it is something that escapes my vocabulary to describe. Then I think: ‘God, I have no importance. Whatever […]

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Nota Bene #120: Crazy Ivan

by on September 13, 2011 in Features, Nota Bene, Photography

“If you can make a woman laugh, you’re seeing the most beautiful thing on God’s earth.” Who said it?

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Nota Bene #119: Think! It Ain't Illegal Yet

by on June 16, 2011 in Features, Nota Bene, Photography

“My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.” Who said it?

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Nota Bene #103: Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse

by on February 9, 2010 in Features, Nota Bene, Science & Technology

“To take people from the music world and give them the same kind of credibility that you give me, Morgan Freeman, Laurence Fishburne, Forest Whitaker—that’s like an aberration. I know there’s some young actor sitting in New York or L.A. who’s spent half of his life learning how to act and sacrificing to learn his […]

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An open letter to America's progressive billionaires

by on March 10, 2009 in American Culture, Crime & Corruption, Education, Freedom & Privacy, Generations, History, Journalism, Media & Entertainment, Politics, Law & Government, Race & Gender, Religion, Science & Technology

Dear Mr. Buffet, Mr. Gates, Mr. Turner, Mr. Soros, Ms. Winfrey, and any other hyper-rich types with progressive political leanings: If this essay has, against all odds, somehow made its way to your desk, please, bear with me. It’s longish, but it winds eventually toward an exceedingly important conclusion. If you’ll give me a few […]

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Time for the art and science of tough decisions

by on February 8, 2009 in Economy, Politics, Law & Government, War & Security

by Sara Nora Ross, PhD The new Obama administration is still in flux on its stance toward investigation of war crimes of U.S. torture. Public opinion is likely in flux, too. Decisions will be made. I think it’s time we grow some new skills at decision analysis to support the wisdom and endurance of public […]

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Krugman to Democrats: do you want Phil Gramm to have Paulson's new powers?

by on September 25, 2008 in Economy, Politics, Law & Government

There seems to be an unspoken rule in politics that the Republicans have broken at least a couple of times over the course of the Bush Administration – don’t create precedents and new powers that you don’t want used against you when you next fall out of power. The failed idea of a permanent GOP […]

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Nota Bene #35

by on August 11, 2008 in American Culture, Economy, Features, Nota Bene, Politics, Law & Government, Religion, Sports, War & Security, World

Scholars & Rogues’ world-famous hot links! In, “Dear World, Please Confront America,” Naomi Wolf writes: “I had thought that after so much exposure [to revelations about US torture], thousands of Americans would be holding vigils on Capitol Hill, that religious leaders would be asking God’s forgiveness. . . . And yet [there] is no crisis […]

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The Weekly Carboholic: anti-oil speculator resolution useless political theater

by on July 2, 2008 in Energy, Environment & Nature, Internet, Telecom & Social Media, Politics, Law & Government, Weekly Carboholic

On June 26, the United States House of Representatives passed HR 6377, a resolution that requires the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to use all of its authority, including emergency powers if appropriate, to manage energy commodities. The resolution passed the House 402-19. This resolution is political theater. Not only are resolutions in general effectively […]

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The candidates don't care about our children

by on January 9, 2008 in Health, Politics, Law & Government

Probably every candidate who has ever run for President has claimed to be running to improve the future. This is especially true about this election cycle because so much has gone horribly wrong over the last eight years. The idea that our children should have better lives than we ourselves have is part of the […]

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Ruth Marcus takes on Paul Krugman – and wins this round.

by on November 21, 2007 in Politics, Law & Government

NYTimes commentator Paul Krugman is an economist who tackles all sorts of issues beyond just the economy, and I’ve been reading him since the early 1990s when I first discovered the New York Times. While I find I agree with him on a great many issues, I cannot understand his recent downplaying of the problem […]

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