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Environmentalists are often accused - not always unfairly - of overplaying the fear card. With apocalyptic references to melting polar ice caps, rising sea levels and widespread species extinction, the driving message of environmentalism is that the future is doomed, unless we act now to save...
...Senate's defeat of the Warner-Lieberman bill - the first real attempt to pass federal cap-and-trade legislation - thanks in part to fears raised by Republicans that a carbon cap would further increase energy prices. "America's growing dependence on fossil fuels, once viewed as a Democratic trump card...has become a lodestone instead," wrote the green pollsters Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus in a recent piece for the Los Angeles Times. The ensuring financial meltdown hasn't helped. Since the climate bill was defeated on June 6, the Dow industrial average has lost some 2,000 points...
Case: Ashcroft, Former Attorney General v. Iqbal Hearing Date: Dec. 10 Background: Javaid Iqbal, a Pakistani man living and working in New York, was arrested on credit card fraud charges after the Sept. 11 attacks. While in custody in the maximum security section of Metropolitan Detention Center, Iqbal allegedly received "gross mistreatment." After being deported, he filed suit against the prison and FBI Director Robert Mueller and former Attorney General John Ashcroft, claiming multiple civil rights violations including that the officials "designed, or at least approved of, a policy of segregating Arab and Muslim detainees from the general prison population...