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...could really do something about it: Congress. But that began to change in 2007, and nowhere more so than in the Senate's key committee on the environment and public works, which drafts much of the country's environmental legislation. Up until last January, the committee was chaired by Oklahoma Sen. James Inhofe, a Republican who memorably called global warming "the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people." When the Democrats took over Congress in the 2006 midterm elections, however, the chairperson's gavel was handed over to Sen. Barbara Boxer of California, and the floodgates opened. Boxer began...
...original version of this article stated that Senator James Inhofe represented Alaska. He actually represented Oklahoma...
...Then, there are already signs that Mike Huckabee has his eye on a third set of states on Feb 5: the heartland arc of Arkansas, Georgia, Alabama, Missouri, Oklahoma and Tennessee. If Huckabee won all of those (and they are almost all winner-take-all states), he would take home a surprisingly large 308 delegates. (This assumes Fred Thompson retires from the field between now and then, and Huckabee does poorly in California...
...surprise skeptics, and Saltsman points out that after Florida - which votes on Jan. 29 and where polls show Huckabee in a four-way dead heat - the campaign expects to do well in a number of the mostly Southern states that vote on February 5th, namely Georgia, Alabama, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, and Tennessee...
...Should Timothy Mcveigh be sitting in a prison cell watching TV for killing 168 people and injuring 850 in Oklahoma City? No, he deserved to die. People want to fix what isn't broken and not fix what is broken. What is broken is the justice system that allows appeals to go on for 10 to 30 years. It is a system devised by lawyers, the only ones who benefit from it. Attacking the use of the chemicals is just one more excuse to end the death penalty. We need the death penalty to protect our policemen and the most...