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President George W. Bush has not exactly been a hero to civil libertarians, what with the data mining, wiretapping and library snooping. But he may just have redeemed himself. Thanks in part to the efforts of Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, it is now safe for Nicole Richie to...
Even tougher is the one perplexing area in which the fight against global warming conflicts with the U.S.'s goal of greater energy independence: coal. "The U.S. is the Saudi Arabia of coal," Dingell recently declared. We have seemingly endless tons of the stuff, which can be converted into liquid...
In March Sinn Fein became part of the new Northern Ireland government. The party has also cleverly expanded in the southern part of Ireland by mining latent or marginalized voters - young people, urban poor, environmentalists, and anti-war campaigners. If they can become the first party to be in both...
But Baroody is no businessman. He's a business lobbyist. The distinction is crucial to understanding an Administration in which energy lobbyists oversee mining and drilling, timber lobbyists oversee logging and the National Cattlemen's Beef Association has practically moved to the Department of Agriculture. These are Washington people, not...
But Baroody is not a corporate insider - he's a Washington insider. And he's not a businessman - he's a business lobbyist. Those may sound like irrelevant distinctions, but they're critical to understanding the Bush Administration, where energy lobbyists oversee mining and drilling, timber lobbyists oversee logging, hospital...