May 17, 2008
by Stephen Wilde
Op-Ed
The short answer is that it always does.

Politicians tend to prefer things staying the same as regards the balance between those in power and the rest of us. Developments in Science unpredictably throw everything out of balance.

The political ideal, for some, is to keep the people as ignorant as possible whilst reserving all ‘knowledge’ for themselves. The great advantage of the Scientific Method (upon which the whole of the modern world apart from a few minor exceptions is based) combined with a Representative Democracy is that such ambitions are usually frustrated.

May 17, 2008

On Monday, May 19th at 10:00 am, at the National Press Club, Dr. Arthur Robinson of The Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine will announce that more than 31,000 scientists have signed a petition rejecting claims of human-caused global warming.

May 15, 2008
By Vincent Gioia
Op-Ed on the Global Warming movement and the coming Presidential policies
(Comments are welcome)

All candidates for the presidency this year have many policies in common but the acceptance of and reaction to false claims of man-made global warming carries the most far reaching implication for changing the lifestyle of Americans - for the worse.

Office of the Secretary
May 14, 2008  Contact: Shane Wolfe
202-208-6416
Secretary Kempthorne Announces Decision to Protect Polar Bears under Endangered Species Act
Rule will allow continuation of vital energy production in Alaska

In a press conference on May 14, 2008, Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne announced that he is accepting the recommendation of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Director Dale Hall to list the polar bear as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act.