Articles of Interest
December 19, 2007, 1:00am

Today, President Bush will sign the historic Energy Independence and Security Act, which will raise vehicle fuel efficiency by nearly 30 percent by 2020 and mandate a massive increase in the use of biofuels.

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December 19, 2007, 1:00am

As readers of this column know, I have a rule that there is a simple way to test whether any Arab-Israeli peace deal is real or not: If you need a Middle East expert to explain it to you, it’s … Read more »

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December 18, 2007, 1:00am

Every day in the United States, 10,000 young people acquire a sexually-transmitted disease. Teen pregnancy rates in this country are rising, and 2.5 million people worldwide contracted HIV in 2007.

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December 18, 2007, 1:00am

Wall Street banks are an honest audit away from bankruptcy. Housing prices are plummeting at rates not seen since the Great Depression. Mortgage foreclosures are ravaging neighborhoods and knee-capping state and local budgets. Incomes decline even as the cost of … Read more »

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December 18, 2007, 1:00am

Today, Bush-appointed Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin rammed through a 3-2 partisan vote to remove the longstanding “newspaper/broadcast cross-ownership” ban that prohibits a local newspaper from owning TV and radio stations in the same market.

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December 14, 2007, 1:00am

For the second time in three months, President Bush yesterday vetoed bipartisan legislation that “would have expanded the State Children’s Health Insurance (SCHIP) program “by $35 billion over five years and would have boosted its enrollment to about 10 million … Read more »

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December 14, 2007, 1:00am

Hoping to replicate the successful Jewish-Christian outreach of the past 50 years, a group of mainstream rabbis and imams is launching an ambitious attempt to forge a national dialogue between American Jews and Muslims.

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December 11, 2007, 1:00am

“The earth has a fever. And the fever is rising,” warned former vice president Al Gore yesterday, accepting the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for his work as “one of the world’s leading environmental politicians.”

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December 11, 2007, 1:00am

The man whom the people elected in 2000 to be president was in the temporary residence of the man whom the Supreme Court anointed. President George W. Bush hosted former Vice-President Al Gore, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, and … Read more »

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December 10, 2007, 1:00am

Is Mike Huckabee the presidential candidate shunning Mike Huckabee the preacher? Before entering politics, he was a pastor at two Baptist churches. Now his campaign tells Mother Jones it won’t make his sermons available to the media and the public. … Read more »

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