Politics is a dirty business, as is pollution. Mixing the two is a very dirty and potentially explosive proposition. Let’s try to shed some light on this corner of our economic landscape. For evidence of this ‘dark and dirty’ enterprise, we need look no further than the energy bill recently passed by the House and on its way to the Senate. This legislation, formally known as the Waxman-Markey Climate Bill but commonly referred to as ‘cap and trade,’ was recently highlighted by Bloomberg rep

We've been here before: A President believes the so-called war of terror gives him the right to do whatever he wants, even if it means ignoring the Constitution, without any checks and balances on his abuse of power. Then the courts step in and say wait a minute, Mr. President. Even you are not above the law. It took a while for the courts to crack down on President George W. Bush's frequent -- and excessive -- abuses of power. President Barack Obama is not getting a grace period from

We have been reporting on the clash between the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and it’s California subsidiary the United Healthcare Workers (UHW). We have talked of the battle between the two, how the SEIU has strong-armed or dismissed the elected members of the UHW board, and how at last thousands of members of what was the UHW are attempting to leave to start a new union to rival the SEIU. But, it appears that the SEIU is a tad unhappy that so many of its California members wo

Former Astronaut Charles Bolden will probably be the new head of NASA. But a committee holds much of the fate of NASA in its own expert hands. This New York Times Augustine article is very useful for painting the big picture. The Committee held a public meeting on June 17. The “ Agenda Released for U.S. Human Space Flight Plans Meeting ,” is from NASA Breaking News (6/16/09). To quote the press release: The first public meeting of the Review of U.S. Human Space Flight Plans Committ

-By Dan Scott Two international occurrences over the past month have given us an interesting insight into President Obama. The first being his initial tepid response to Iranians demonstrating non violently in the streets over a very suspicious election result and the Basij murdering seven demonstrators in a staged attacked to make the demonstrators look violent. The purpose of the attack was to delegitimize a peaceful movement and their dissent in order to shift the focus away from a less t