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Senators Ask ExxonMobil to Cut Funding to 29 Unspecified “Climate Change Denial Front Groups”

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Apparently taking a page from Britain's Royal Society (if you missed that controversy, Prometheus has a thoughtful discussion of it here), Senators Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) and Olympa Snowe (R-ME) are urging (pdf) ExxonMobil to stop funding organizations and individuals who ...
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Rationing Goods and Services to Fight Global Warming?

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The Guardian is running a column by Lucy Mangan today calling for worldwide rationing of consumer goods to combat global warming: You could be forgiven for feeling slightly overwhelmed at the literally planet-sized task ahead of us. I felt the ...
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British Foreign Secretary Compares Global Warming Theory Skeptics to Islamic Terrorists

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The British Foreign Secretary has compared people who disagree with her on global warming to terrorists: ...let us deny the terrorists the historical importance they claim to themselves. They have no right to speak for the great and noble faith ...
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Another Sign of the Apocalypse

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The John Locke Foundation's Locker Room blog cites evidence that continental European nations are finally getting serious about economic competitiveness: They're trying to improve their relative position by getting the EU to pass legislation to force Britons to stop working ...
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John Hancock, Mid-20th Century Pediatricians at Fault in Enron Scandal

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Former Los Angeles Times National Correspondent Robert Scheer, writing in his Creator's Syndicate column, isn't happy that Jeffrey Skilling got sentenced 24 years in prison for the Enron scandal. Scheer's blaming the Bush family for what happened at Enron. Says ...
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Nicaraguan Contras Failed, Despite Winning

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From "Nicaragua Balloting Said to Go Smoothly" in the Washington Post Monday edition: But many Nicaraguans long ago lost their taste for [Daniel] Ortega, disillusioned by his government's human rights abuses, confiscation of property and bloody war against insurgents known ...
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Ortega Returns, and So Does Biased Coverage of Nicaragua in U.S. Media

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A Newsday article by Letta Tayler, "Ortega Headed for Stunning Victory in Nicaragua," brings back old times... ...memories of 1980s media bias when it comes to U.S. coverage of Nicaragua. For instance: Fans [of Daniel Ortega] waved a sea of ...
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If Daniel Ortega Returns in Nicaragua, the Axis of Evil Grows

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Sunday is decision day in Nicaragua, where, thanks to generous funding from Venezeula's evil nutcase Hugo Chavez, former Communist dictator and human rights abuser Daniel Ortega, is leading in presidential election polls. If you weren't around in the 80s, or ...
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An E-Mail from Mom in Pittsburgh

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An article e-mailed from Mom in Pittsburgh: TULSA, Okla. (AP) - Some gas station owners in Oklahoma are dropping the Venezuelan state-owned Citgo brand, saying sales have dropped significantly since the Venezuelan president criticized President Bush in a speech last ...
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Ted Haggard on the Environment: No Conservative

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In light of the recent scandalous allegations regarding evangelical leader Rev. Ted Haggard, many news outlets have been referring to Haggard as a "conservative." Only a small number are mentioning that Haggard also sees himself as a global warming activist ...
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