I’ve been watching in amazement as a massive oil slick–larger than many small countries–slowly makes it way to the Gulf coastline, some of our nation’s best fishing grounds and most biologically diverse ecosystems. Because of the strong winds, it should reach land soon (or already has), and the choppy seas are making attempts to clean [...]

T. Boone says that too much is being made of the BP oil spill.  Don’t worry, it’ll all get cleaned up.

Hey, Sierra Club: There’s a giant flaming ball of oil being pushed straight for the coasts of Alabama and Mississippi. Might be the worst environmental event in decades. I know it makes the President’s recent decision to allow offshore drilling look. . . well, awkwardly timed, but this is, sort of, you know, your issue, [...]

What struck me about Harry Reid’s outline for immigration reform besides the weird, almost medieval, militant framing, like “Further Fortification of America’s Border,” is how some large group of military contractors are set to make a killing at the taxpayer’s expense if this bill ever passed: As a result of this proposal, the Border Patrol [...]

Well this is encouraging. Dick Durbin is one of the “liberals” on the President’s Debt Commission, which is currently studying cuts to Social Security and Medicare as a way to reduce the deficit. And he certainly has mastered the fine art of messaging to the Democratic base: [Durbin] admonished “bleeding heart liberals” to be open [...]

The Deepwater Horizon oil rig disaster is getting worse by the hour. At the Seminal, diarist Seymour Friendly writes that the collapsed well is leaking oil at the pace of 200,000 gallons a day. If Obama moves forward with expanded offshore drilling, this disaster will only be the beginning. Sign our petition to President Obama asking he end his plans for offshore drilling.

Harry Reid and Chuck Schumer are holding a press conference at 5:45 today to unveil their immigration plan, which will probably look a lot like the one that has been circulating (PDF) — heavy on enforcement to escalate the war on drugs, more money and power for ICE agents, biometric ID’s, lots of Department of [...]

Speaking to reporter aboard Air Force One, President Obama said the White House will not bring up immigration reform until next year: “We’ve gone through a very tough year and I’ve been working Congress pretty hard. So I know, there may not be an appetite immediately to dive into another controversial issue. There’s still work [...]

The Coast Guard is working to try to clean up a roughly 2,100 square-mile oil slick in the gulf of Mexico caused by a deep sea oil drilling operation. That means the oil slick is now covering more surface area than 31 different sovereign nations, and could possibly grow even larger. As we watch a [...]

Citizens Against Legalizing Marijuana (CALM) has a new brochure arguing against legalizing cannabis. Not surprisingly, CALM has decided to use disingenuous and illogical arguments against legalizing and regulating Cannabis. From their brochure (via DrugWarRant): MARIJUANA CULTIVATION = ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTER Drug cartels and illegal traffickers have found it easier to grow marijuana in our national forests [...]