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The New York Times has the scoop : James E. Hansen, the climate scientist who issued the clearest warning of the 20th century about the dangers of global warming, will retire from NASA this week, giving himself more freedom to pursue political and legal efforts to limit greenhouse gases….

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Sunshine State News, Florida’s self-proclaimed “only center-right news source,” has dedicated extensive coverage to the conservative charge of “judicial activism” against three state Supreme Court justices facing a retention election in November. The author of a Federalist Society report on the justices’ records debunked the charge on Wednesday, telling The Miami Herald that opponents of the justices will “have a hard time” making the “activism” label “stick.” On Election Day, voters in Florida will vote on the merit retention of three justices on their state Supreme Court. The three justices, Barbara Pariente, R

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While America’s recovery from the 2008 recession has hardly been booming — economic growth remains sluggish and unemployment is still a discouragingly high 7.8 percent — it’s actually been better than Europe’s .

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by Mary Anne Hitt, via the Sierra Club “Hey buddy!” Like so many others, I always got this warm greeting from Larry Gibson, followed by a big hug. Like so many others, I saw mountaintop removal coal mining with my own eyes for the first time on Larry’s mountain in southern West Virginia, Kayford Mountain, and I’ve been fighting to end the devastation ever since

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Roberto Lovato Far from a slam dunk for immigrants, the Supreme Court ruling allows Juan Crow to stand as the law of the land.

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National Review Online blogger Ed Whelan is trying to aid the unprecedented obstruction tactics Senate Republicans are using to block President Obama’s nominees. On June 20, 2012, American Bar Association president William T.

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Fox News on Friday replayed comments by presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney that President Obama “did nothing to advance” immigration reform until this year without noting that those comments are false. Indeed, Obama and the Democrats tried and failed to pass the DREAM Act in 2010, because Senate Republicans filibustered it after the legislation had already passed the House

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In what most sane people would consider non-controversial news, the White House  announced today  that first lady Michelle Obama will be leading the U.S. delegation at the Opening Ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics. Conservative bloggers, whose coverage of the first lady never strays from the simple equation ”Michelle Obama + anything = bad,” have already gotten to work on embarrassing themselves over the story

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Last week  Washington Times  columnist and National Rifle Association board member Ted Nugent used opinion pieces to unleash racial tirades against both the African-American and Latino communities.  In a June 13  Washington Times  column , Nugent advised Mitt Romney, who he has endorsed for president , to tell Latinos to act more like Asians: The unemployment rate among Latinos stands at 11 percent, which is much higher than the national average. Mr. Romney must continue to remind Latinos that improving the economy is key to improving their livelihood.

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Fox News pundits have repeatedly claimed that fracking poses no risk to water supplies, even though there are several documented cases where extraction of shale gas and activities related to fracking have contaminated water. Watch how their blanket denials of risk contrast with real news reports on the damage natural gas extraction has done to water supplies: Oil and gas companies are currently extracting natural gas at a record levels by drilling horizontally and then using a process called hydraulic fracturing (often called fracking), which involves injecting large amounts of water along with sand and chemicals at a high pressure in order to crack open shale rock and release the gas.

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