Washington needs to make a serious move on education policy. Our public schools are failing too many children, and the under-funded No Child Left Behind Act did not bring the sweeping change that was expected. One of the central problems in this debate is tenure.

Alright, let’s start by talking about Iraq. The story of last week was the last combat brigade being drawn out of Iraq and into Kuwait. By no means are all Americans out of danger, as fifty thousand are sticking around for a training mission. But, by the end of the month Operation Iraqi Freedom will [...]

Aren’t you just tired of this story? I know I’ve just about had it. Seriously, it should have just gone away by now and I’ve been hoping it had. From the very beginning of this asinine controversy, more than a few voices of reason put our logical arguments as to why the planned development at [...]

Media wakes up to Hell and High Water: Moscow’s 1000-year heat wave and “Pakistan’s Katrina”
Climate Progress
8.12.10
Few need a reminder that this past July was the second warmest on record across much of the east coast. Moscow is have a record drought, destroying a quarter of its crops, causing deadly fires, and requiring drastic measures [...]

Rachel Maddow Challenges Obama On Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell: ‘Stand Up For What Is Right’
The Huffington Post
8.12.10
Please watch the clips from The Rachel Maddow Show last night. It is a stark reminder that the lives of American men and women serving our country continue to be put in danger because some of our most talented [...]

…then I would say it’s time to replace the coach.

I mean really, c’mon. Their playbook is pretty atrocious, their defense is non-existent, and we all know they’re going to crumble in the post-season without a shake-up.

If you want to learn more about why it’s time to think twice about what you eat, keep reading. I’m going to try and pique your interest in this, the first of a series of columns on why our agricultural policy is failing and what we can do. You’ll also see that if we tackle this problem, many other dilemma’s become a bit more palatable.

The strikingly ineffective chemical regulatory framework of the status quo has no doubt given rise to some larger systemic issues. Most problematic are “the three gaps”: the chemical data gap, the safety gap and the technology gap.

In a sense, the TSCA was always a bit behind the game – it was constructed as an inherently reactive rather than proactive policy. The primary reason for this is obvious: tens of thousands of environmental chemicals had already been on the market, in their various forms, prior to it even entering its nascent stages. Largely as a result, members of Congress only found it feasible to establish some sort of general public oversight over the daunting number of chemicals in commerce.

In what was seemingly his former life, Florida Governor Charlie Crist instructively warned that “the conditions of weather and rising water levels will have the most profound impact on [his] state than any other.” Being a low-elevation peninsula, surrounded by both the Atlantic Ocean to the east and the Gulf of Mexico to the west, sea level rise undoubtedly represents the state’s biggest threat.