Thanks again to everyone who supported me and helped promote my last post about the economic bailout, presidential race, and culture war. I’ve said my peace, so I’ll try my hardest to make this my very last political post until next year, but I just wanted to follow up on the discussion. If you haven’t been following it, there are [...]

The financial sector is failing. The dollar is already a lame duck in currency markets, and the Fed just printed up another trillion dollars (God knows where that will come from!) so Wall Street can pay their C-level executives. The presidential campaign is like a bad joke, and the absence of laughter in the crowd is deafening. And then there’s [...]

Author Tim Ferriss has released an important message that he says is sure to be controversial and somewhat divisive, but it may also be the most important 20 minute video clip any U.S. citizen will watch in our lifetime. I will copy much of Ferriss’ important message below. Normally I wouldn’t duplicate someone else’s content to such an extent, but [...]

There’s a bill in the House and the Senate this year that might give some bloggers the same protections that traditional news reporters have. The Free Flow of Information Act would beef up federal shield laws that protect journalists from revealing their sources except in the most immediate cases where a crime has been committed, when a threat is posed [...]

For years under the Bush administration, the Environmental Protection Agency has argued that it has no authority to regulate carbon emissions. Imagine that, the one government office in charge of–what other than protecting the environment–hasn’t been doing its job? Well, five Supreme Court justices ruled yesterday that carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases DO count as “air pollutants,” and are [...]

This is the final installment in the Slow Cooker Earth series. We’ve looked at what global warming means in terms of extreme weather and rising sea levels, and its effect on animals and the land. Today we look at its effect on human society. “Global warming” and “climate change” are obviously becoming the new buzzwords in our lexicon, and a [...]

Sources tell me that the House of Representatives voted in favor of H.R. 6 today, the “Creating Long-Term Energy Alternatives for the Nation Act of 2007,” or “CLEAN Energy Act of 2007.” Representatives Jerry McNerney (CA), Charles Rangel (NY), and Nick Rahall (WV) introduced the Act on Tuesday for the House’s first 100-Hour Agenda, a bill that will repeal approximately [...]