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...more than "fighting and winning wars for the U.S.," as Bush put it during his campaign. When announcing his choice for Energy Secretary, he acknowledged that "our national security depends on energy security." Let's hope that this statement was not merely a call for drilling oil in the Alaskan wildlife refuge and a justification for the enormous U.S. military presence in the Middle East, but also a sign that Bush and his foreign policy team are dedicated to branching out even more and expanding their definition of national security...
...influence of Teddy Roosevelt, John Muir and Al Gore, Clinton signed an executive order protecting one third of U.S. forest land from logging and road construction. The order, which affects 58 million acres in 39 states, is the most aggressive protection act since Jimmy Carter designated huge swaths of Alaskan wilderness off-limits to developers. Environmental lobbyists, already pleased with Clinton's record of land protection, are thrilled by his latest move. "This is a great moment in history," Ken Rait, director of the Heritage Forest Campaign, told the New York Times. "It's something for which our children will...
...center of a brewing storm: Norton and Ashcroft. During the Reagan administration, Norton worked under Interior Secretary James Watt, who almost single-handedly galvanized the environmental movement with his pro-business policies. Norton has engaged congressional Democrats before - when she tried unsuccessfully to convince them to open the Alaskan Wildlife Refuge to oil exploration. To many environmentalists, Norton's tendency to consider corporate interests when making land-use decisions, considered alongside Bush's repeated insistence that current land protection policies are too broad, lead many environmentalists to fear Norton could represent the worst-case scenario for America's federal expanses...
...error, but an accurate and binding reflection of the will of the people. It is time to standardize and modernize our voting system in the U.S., if not for the people's sake, than at least for Dan Rather's. Let's get him back to reporting on Alaskan prize pumpkins and Angiostatin. Who knows what another election scandal would...
...performing marriages without a license b) brainwashing people and making them dress badly c) taking too many salmon from an Alaskan river...