John McCain had a choice. He could have gone 'green' (or at least light green) when choosing a female Republican governor. He actually had multiple 'light green' options in front of him.
As president of the American Hunters and Shooters Association (AHSA), today I announced our endorsement of Sen. Barack Obama for the Democratic nomination for president.
Palin believes that we should drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, which McCain has previously opposed. She also supports offshore drilling.
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Meeting this challenge will deliver the affordability, stability and confidence our economy needs, as well as a healthy environment, while generating millions of jobs that can't be outsourced.
Flying to visit his wind operations in Sweetwater, Texas, T. Boone Pickens makes it clear that his next wind project is big, Texas-style -- 4,000 megawatts up in the Panhandle north of here.
For months now, Campania has been suffocating under heaps of uncollected garbage shipped from economically sound northern Italian regions to the much poorer south.
Ford finally figured out which way the wind is blowing and has decided to invest $75 million to retool its Michigan truck plant so that it can produce small, fuel-efficient cars.
Whether influential, intriguing or simply offensive, these celebrities, politicians and pop culture icons have caught my eye for helping the planet, saving money on gas and looking sweet atop the seat.
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Being green really is about helping nature, and not just about ourselves, so how pretty we think certain animals are shouldn't matter. Cuteness shouldn't factor into life and death decisions.
Being eco is not about killing the party. Impressing your dinner guests in an earth conscious way can be as easy as a few small changes. 1. Say No t...
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Palin says the fertilized egg is a human being from the moment of conception. To support that view she needs to also demand that when a pregnancy is determined a Certificate of Conception of some sort be issued and if a live healthy birth is not forthcoming in a normal amount of time an investigation occur to determine where that person is or why they are injured, with penalties, where appropriate, no different than if it was anyone else. Will she back up her claim?
Scully, Rove & Co. have obviously decided that there's no need to worry about reality interfering with the story they're selling the American public about Palin and McCain, who they are, and what their election would mean for us. They've decided (after thorough research, mind you) that what really matters is not credibility or evidence to support their claims, but providing a narrative for people who WANT to believe.
Of course, thinking people don't believe Palin any more than we believed Bush. Still, Scully has scored a great victory; before now, the McCain campaign didn't even have a Bush. The base was decidedly unexcited about McCain and probably depressed about his chances of defeating the change candidate in a political climate so hostile to the current administration, the current party in power - theirs.
Now suddenly they have a Bush who can speak English with convincing inflection and who is young enough and non-status-quo enough to help them co-opt the change message with a straight face, despite the fact that they've been in power for the past eight years and that the Republican-McCain-Palin platform promotes the same policies and principles that have brought us where we are today, that have provoked such a rousing cry for change.
You'd expect that Obama knows that presidential candidates do not
tangle with the VP opponents. It's a clever Repo tactic, to 'change' that
tradition, so expect such challenges to be ignored. They'd better be.
If Palin has a Dick Cheney, he'd look a lot like Karl Rove. Repos make
their own reality. We know that.
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