President Bush's Mercury Rule Is A Gift

What Our Republican Friends Are Doing, If We Look At What They Do And Not What They Say, They Have Decided That The Most Important Thing In This Country Is To Increase Payments For Interest On The National Debt.

While I Relish Our Warm Months, Winter Forms Our Character And Brings Out Our Best.

Mercury Pollution From Power Plants Is A National Problem That Requires A National Response

Incivility Is A Symptom, Not The Disease. We've Always Had Partisan Conflict In Congress, And We Always Will. Yet When I Worked For A Year (1970-71) On The Staff Of Sen. Ed Muskie Of Maine, This Was A Different Place, More Collegial, More Sensitive To Data, More Concerned About All Of The American People. I Think Because The For-profit Media Prizes Conflict Above Cooperation And Sound Bites Above Analysis, Politicians Have Learned To Adapt To Those Tendencies. Consequently, Our Public Debates Are Dumbed Down As Our Problems Grow More Complex.

Energy Conservation Is The Foundation Of Energy Independence.