Did Palin “Establish Debating Parity” with Joe Biden?
David Brooks thinks she did:
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The Environmental Protection Agency was directed by a 2007 Supreme Court ruling to find out whether greenhouse gases endangered public health and the environment. The EPA did that and issued its findings in an email to the White House. The White House refused to open the email:
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Exxon, everyone’s favorite Texas oil company, has finally admitted to funding climate change denial groups and pledges to stop.
Sphere: Related ContentThe move comes ahead of the firm’s annual meeting today in Dallas, at which prominent shareholders including the Rockefeller family will urge ExxonMobil to take the problem of climate change more seriously. Green campaigners accuse the company of funding a “climate denial industry” over the last decade, with $23m (£11.5m) handed over to groups that play down the risks of burning fossil fuels.
Can global warming cause global cooling?
I should be studying for my last final, but staring at the same material for hours causes a scatterbrain like me to poke around the web for something, anything, that isn’t Middle Eastern history. So I found myself on Wizbang today.
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Obama continues to provide evidence to suggest my hypothesis was correct; that the likely Democratic nominee isn’t a pushover, and when the target in his sights is not a fellow Democrat, he knows how to dig in and deliver some blows when he has to.
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First off, I’m not sure what’s more tragic: the damage caused by the cyclone or the paranoid Myanmar government’s refusal to let in outside aid workers — letting their own citizens die.
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Or not. I prefer my trees out in the open and standing up, thank you very much.
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