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Another Reason Why Energy Independence Doesn’t Work
While G8 leaders get together in Heiligendamm today through Friday to discuss climate change, aid and international economic issues, another headline should...
G-8, Bush, Putin and More!
Leaders of the Group of Eight (G8), a collection of nations that represent two-thirds of world's economy, will meet in Germany this...
Don’t Look Away
Part of the power of popular music is its chameleon-like ability to convey new (if sometimes anachronistic) meaning as a result of...
Bad Odds for New Orleans… And Beyond
Peter Whoriskey's article in the Post today on the reconstruction of New Orleans' flood defenses blows my mind. He reports that, when...
Climate Analysis, Column Warms My Heart
Dana Milbank, of The Washington Post , often writes a snarky - but informative - column, which appears on page two of...
Lost in Climate Wonderland
I wasn't sure whether to laugh or cry when I read President Bush's remarks on climate change to the Global Leadership Council...
Mottos and Departments
There's an interesting piece in today's Washington Post about Secretary of Interior Dirk Kempthorne efforts to get a motto adopted for his...
President Bush on the upcoming G8
I just got back from the Ronald Reagan Building (or the "New Building at Federal Triangle" as a colleague of mine calls...
A Modest Monster Pig Proposal for Peace
Upon hearing of 11-year-old Jamison Stone's killing a 1,051-pound "Monster Pig" with 8 shots from a .50-caliber revolver at an Alabama hunting...
The Word Man Cometh
As President George W. Bush's chief speechwriter and senior policy advisor until June 2006, Michael Gerson was often referred to as the...
A Day to Remember
Today is the International Day of U.N. Peacekeepers. It's a good time to remember that those that worked and have sometimes given...