From the daily archives: Tuesday, October 23, 2007

White House edits Center for Disease Control climate testimony

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More political manipulation of science by the Bushies.

White House edits CDC climate testimony. By H. Josef Hebert. AP Writer

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The politics of Disaster: Idaho Congressman Mike Simpson seeks more grazing on Idaho's burned rangelands

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The politics of Disaster: Rep. Simpson Seeks Special Grazing For Fire-Riddled Idaho. By Brodie Farquhar. New West

Simpson is following a long tradition among Idaho politicians of using fire disaster to do exactly  the wrong thing, but something that pleases powerful constituents.

He seems to have taken the over the role of Larry Craig […]

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‎"At some point we must draw a line across the ground of our home and our being, drive a spear into the land and say to the bulldozers, earthmovers, government and corporations, “thus far and no further.” If we do not, we shall later feel, instead of pride, the regret of Thoreau, that good but overly-bookish man, who wrote, near the end of his life, “If I repent of anything it is likely to be my good behaviour."

~ Edward Abbey