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In the 8 December 2009 New York Times Tom Friedman presents a very good application of Dick Cheney's "one percent doctrine" to global warming.
You recall the one percent doctrine, right? Friedman gives a refresher:
In 2006, Ron Suskind...
How I love the holiday season! Despite the garish display of conspicuous consumption here in the USA, there are invariably numerous examples of people reaching out to help those less fortunate than themselves. Revives my faith in humanity.
So it was...
Sarah Palin's Going Rogue has gotten more than a few things wrong. But one of the more unfair allegations is that the book incorrectly attributed this quote to UCLA basketball coaching legend John Wooden:
Our land is everything to us... I will tell...
Jared Diamond, author of the excellent Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse argues in today's New York Times that big buiness may save Earth (which, of course, does not need saving - life as we know it on Earth needs saving).
He begins:
There is a...
Leonard Pitts, Jr., syndicated columnist for the Miami Herald, recently penned a column titled, We can still afford to act like America.
In it, he supports Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to try Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the confessed...
