From down in Silver City, former New York Times and Philadelphia Inquirer editor Thomas E. Wark wrote about the Republican Party’s misleading and lie-filled information campaign against the climate bill which passed the House a couple of weeks back.
The Tea Partiers (aka, the vocal, far-right minority of the Republican Party) have bought this hook, line and sinker. At the behest of the oil and coal barons, Republican propagandists first attacked the bill as an “energy tax” that would force American consumers into abject poverty.

By George Kane On a Sunday morning at the end of May, Dr. George Tiller, who was well known as one of the few doctors in the country who performed late-term abortions, walked into Reformation Lutheran Church in Wichita Kansas, which he had attended regularly for years. Inside the church, long-time anti-abortion activist Scott Roeder shot and killed him. Many online abortion opponents could not conceal their delight with Roeder’s “street justice.” Dr.