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Climate-change critics like Republican Senator James Inhofe may rail against China, but the PNAS paper shows that while Beijing may be leading the world in carbon emissions, that output is in large part due to the fact that it is using energy to make clothes, cars and toys for the rest of us. It also demonstrates that Europe - whose per capita carbon footprint is less than half that of the U.S. - essentially imports some of its green virtue from abroad by outsourcing its carbon emissions. "It does shrink the gap somewhat between the U.S. and Europe," says Davis...
...expected, Republican Congressional leaders have unjustly criticized Obama’s suggestion of reconciliation, declaring that it represents an attempt to subvert the will of the people. Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele described reconciliation as “a parliamentary trick”, while Senator Lindsay Graham (R – SC) described the effect of reconciliation as “catastrophic.” The Republican criticisms are highly disingenuous, however; of the 22 times reconciliation has been used since 1980, 17 were by Republicans. Most notably, the measure was used to pass both of President Bush?...
...many aspects of daily life in Northern Ireland - sports, housing, education - are divided along Catholic-Protestant lines, few issues are as contentious as policing. For decades, the Catholic minority has viewed the predominantly Protestant police force with deep mistrust. Many Catholic neighborhoods were no-go areas for security forces; republican politicians, such as those in Sinn Fein (now the largest Catholic-backed party in the province), would tell supporters not to assist the police...
...There are more immediate threats. On Feb. 23, dissident republicans exploded a bomb in the border town of Newry. Over the past 12 months, groups such as the Real IRA have repeatedly tried to kill police officers and members of the security forces. Paramilitary activity is at its highest level in six years. Although the groups are small in number, security experts believe that dissident republicans are now better organized and attracting new recruits. "There's a wide misconception that groups involved in these recent attacks are made up of those who left the IRA 10 years ago or longer...
...Tying the Administration's Fate Too Closely to His Party's Congressional Leadership. Republican leaders in Congress effectively persuaded Bush in almost every year of his presidency to marry his fate to theirs - and all too frequently, to subordinate his vision of right and wrong to their short-term political demands. This problem was particularly pronounced in the area of spending, from a mammoth farm bill to an expensive entitlement in the form of a Medicare prescription-drug benefit to colossal business-as-usual earmark spending. Bush also tarnished his personal image by staying largely silent in the face...