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...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...
With a crimson-colored harvest moon rising behind the Eliot Bell Tower Friday night, Harvard football rallied with three fourth quarter touchdowns to trump Holy Cross, 25-24, in front of 20,462 fans at Harvard Stadium. Despite tepid offense to start the Crimson’s second annual night game, the defense kept the squad poised for the fourth quarter comeback. “Our defensive coordinator, Coach Doherty, he challenged us a lot in practice, and the coaching staff did a great job of putting us in the right position,” said Harvard captain and defensive...
With a crimson-colored, harvest moon rising behind the Eliot Bell Tower Friday night, Harvard football rallied with three fourth-quarter touchdowns to trump Holy Cross, 25-24. Despite tepid offense to start the Crimson’s second annual night game, the defense kept the squad poised for the fourth-quarter comeback.“Our defensive coordinator, Coach Doherty, he challenged us a lot in practice, and the coaching staff did a great job of putting us in the right position,” said Harvard captain and defensive tackle Matt Curtis. “We read...
...always cool to watch reality TV shows. It's one thing to convey your erudition by dissecting a dark plot in The Sopranos, but what does it reveal to cop to a fascination with Donald Trump's boardroom or worse, Ryan and Tristan's love affair on The Bachelorette? For closet reality TV fans, it may finally be safe to come out of the closet. On Sunday, Sept. 21, for the first time the Emmys will award a statue to the best host of a reality TV show. To top that off, the event itself will be hosted...
...educated, costal elite against the hard-working, god-fearing denizens of the country’s heartland. As Thomas Frank describes in his book, “What’s the Matter with Kansas?”, this narrative has become so powerful that it has come to trump nearly all policy considerations: Voters who might be expected to support the policies of the Democratic Party are driven into the Republican camp in a bizarre attempt to stick it to the “elite.” This is the brand of politics that seemed to convince...