Greenpeace often gets on Exxon's back. So a heavily Exxon-funded non-profit sent the IRS a letter hinting that Greenpeace needed an audit. And, like good corporate stooges, the IRS obliged.
Dubya's approval numbers continue to fall. This articles lists a whole raft of them, on a number of issues including domestic spying, terrorism, homeland security, Iraq, energy policies, health care, and the economy.
Exxon Mobile chief calls it "irresponsible" for the government to withhold possible domestic oil reserves from them.
Dubya's latest budget numbers show his priorities, with warfare getting large chunks of change while domestic programs languish.
Harry Reid rips into the Republicans in a speech given to the Center for American Progress.
He covers a wide range of Republican misdeeds.
Analysis of Global Warming and the Dubya administration's actions in pointedly ignoring the problem.
It's pretty obvious that womens' rights groups are going to oppose Supreme Court nominee Sammy Alito.
But, Alito is so bad that environmental groups like Greenpeace, Earthjustice, Friends of the Earth, the National Environmental Trust, and even the Sierra Club are getting into the act.
So, you watched all hardships endured by people who stayed in New Orleans (voluntarily and not). So, when Hurricane Rita threatened, you got the hell out of Beaumont on a bus. Problem was, the rest of Texas doesn't want you and won't let you off the bus.
Yeah, he wants to shift it. Away from having to actually do anything. Magic new technologies will solve it all. Just as long as we don't have to show any results.
But at least Duyba admits the existence of global warning ("a significant, long-term issue that we've got to deal with") and our role in causing it ("to some extent"). Well, sorta.
Hooked on Middle East oil? Well, no duh! Maybe we should try to wean outselves off it rather than blowing up civilians in Iraq? Maybe?
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