Fri 16 May 2008
Same-sex marriage ruling adds a volatile new issue to the Presidential Race
Posted by admin under Politics , National , State No CommentsThe California Supreme Court’s decision allowing same-sex marriage probably throws the politically volatile issue into November, when a proposed state (more…)
Senator John McCain declared on Thursday that most American troops would be home from Iraq by 2013 and that the nation would be a functioning democracy with only “spasmodic” episodes of violence. The comments were a striking departure 
Hillary Clinton’s supporters on Tuesday proclaimed her crushing victory in West Virginia as evidence of Barack Obama’s continuing weakness among blue collar workers. But the simultaneous Democratic victory in a Mississippi congressional race suggested there may be little the Republicans can do to stop 2008 from 
The Interior Department declared the polar bear a threatened species Wednesday because of the loss of Arctic sea ice but also cautioned the decision should not be viewed as a path to address global warming.
The global food crisis is inspiring a broad new coalition on Capitol Hill seeking to change US policies on ethanol production. Interests ranging from US food manufacturers and livestock producers to environmentalists, humanitarian aid agencies 
The time has come for the U.S. Congress to rethink ethanol, an alternative fuel that has lately fallen from favor. Specifically, it is time to end an outdated tax break for corn ethanol and to call a timeout in the fivefold increase in ethanol production 
For years, Albertson’s Supermarket in Canyon Country has posted the photographs of local people serving in or around foreign wars. I was just about to write “young people serving.” But some of the photos are of soldiers who have served for years, and they are not so young now as they were when Albertson’s first discovered them. 
