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"Shameful Obstructionism"? Or "Climate Tax Bill"?

So the 2008 climate bill died today in the Senate on procedural grounds, and if you're getting dizzy, perhaps that's because everyone involved is trying to spin you about what it meant. Environmentalists and their mostly-Democratic allies wanted a cap-and-trade...

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June 6, 2008 | Permalink | User Comments (84)

Risky Business

What are you smoking? Or if you're a parent, what have your kids been smoking? The CDC's newest Youth Risk Behavior Survey is just out, and it shows a gradual drop in cigarette use by American high-schoolers. Taken every two...

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June 4, 2008 | Permalink | User Comments (19)

Climate Bill: Hot Temperatures in Washington

Everyone in Washington is hot and bothered. The Senate is debating the Warner-Lieberman bill, intended to control the release of greenhouse gases, perhaps by 70 percent over the next 40 years. Most of the head counts in Congress say the...

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June 2, 2008 | Permalink | User Comments (46)

Looooong Duration Flight

It's the job of DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, to think up useful new ideas, and one of their newest is called Vulture. Think of it as a very inexpensive spy satellite -- or, as what it looks...

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June 2, 2008 | Permalink | User Comments (7)