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Four members of Harvard’s “Right to Serve” tour were arrested this morning at a military recruiting station in Portland, Maine on the charge of criminal trespassing...
...week-long coalition-sponsored trip around the east coast to protest the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy. The tour, entitled “Right to Serve,” will begin in Boston and make stops in Portland, Maine, New York City, and Washington D.C. At these cities’ military recruiting centers, one openly gay or lesbian student will attempt to enlist for military service. If the student is turned away, volunteers from the group will refuse to leave the recruiting center. The possibility of police arriving...
...will give China breathing room, for a few years if necessary, but eventually it has to join - and there will be trade sanctions if it doesn't. That's where Obama stands, and it's where McCain was going this week until he ducked. The official text of his Portland speech contained a reference to a "cost equalization mechanism" - the trade-sanctions stick if China balks - but McCain edited it out before show time, replacing the mechanism with the phrase "effective diplomacy" - which sounds like jawboning that's all carrot, no stick. In other words, McCain hasn't decided where...
...system would invite wholesale gaming (destroying the market's credibility) and keep the price of carbon pollution permits so low that coal plants would just keep spewing, destroying the market signal that's needed to usher in the new low-carbon economy McCain described so well in Portland...
...test the limits of his courage. McCain hasn't yet promised to vote for the Lieberman-Warner bill. (He's holding out for a package of nuclear incentives - even though cap-and-trade is a built-in incentive for all low-carbon energy, including nuclear.) And in his big Portland speech, he ducked one of the central issues of the entire climate debate: how to get China on board. There are really only three options for this. First, the U.S. commits to emission reductions and figures out China later. That's the Kyoto option, and it was dead on arrival...