For the second year in a row the number of people concerned about global warming has increased. According to Gallup, 58 percent of Americans are worried a great deal about global warming. This is a large increase from 2011 when only 51 percent of Americans were concerned about it, but it is only a return [...]

While Congress fights about just how much more they should force old people to pay for basic health care in 2024, the world is slowly burning. Our real long-term problems are ignored in favor of focusing on the fake ones.

When it comes to environmental issues, Americans are more concerned about immediate problems like contaminated soil, polluted drinking water, and even the loss of the rainforests than they are about global warming. From Gallup: It would seem Americans’ environmental concerns follow a rather clear hierarchy based on both physical and temporal proximity to us. The [...]

A friend emailed that he ran into Sen. Inhofe, who may see a tough race on his hands with state sen. Andrew Rice to hold his seat. It has something to do with the fact that he is crazy and thinks global warming is a myth, up there with the round Earth, our rotation around the sun and Mitt Romney’s hair being from this planet.

In any case, Mr.

About a week ago, we covered how Republican Senate Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is lagging in his reelection race. I have always thought McConnell is a good tactician, but lousy overall strategist.

And here we have another example. He may get the right-wing justices he wants by obstructing Senate business and blocking a global warming bill, but will that help his image among moderate voters in Kentucky, or even conservatives sick