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...tempting to look at the lineup of storms in the Atlantic Ocean (Hanna, Ike, Josephine) and, in the name of everything green, blame climate change for this state of affairs. But there is another inconvenient truth out there: We are getting more vulnerable to weather mostly because of where we live, not just how we live...
Washington bureaucrats often act as if they alone know how best to protect low-lying areas like Du Lac from flooding. Truth is, the folks who've spent their entire lives on the water have their own insights. Take Chris DeJean, 24. On Tuesday afternoon, DeJean was clearing debris from his shrimping boat, which floated in the bayou directly behind the home he shares with his mother. Like many people here, DeJean's roots in Du Lac run deep. His mother was born 40 years ago in the house right across the street. His grandmother was born there...
...Statements from President George W. Bush and others may have emboldened Saakashvili to expect U.S. assistance that in the end wasn't forthcoming, but that's a far cry from an active role in launching military action. The truth is that both Russia and Georgia had plenty of reasons of their own to start a war. Putin, who resents Saakashvili for his brazen defiance of Moscow and close ties to the West, had ample grounds to try to invade Georgia and oust him. Saakashvili, for his part, had staked his presidency on "reintegrating" Georgia's two breakaway territories into Georgia...
...Give CIA directors tenure, with terms of 10 years. Knowing that he couldn't lose his job, a director would be more inclined to tell the truth. (Under my plan, a director could be removed only by the President for gross incompetence, with the concurrence of Congress...
...themselves haven't been exempt from criticism either, even from the campaign's green allies. Newt Gingrich was part of the original series of ads, paired with his opposite number, Nancy Pelosi. But the truth is that Gingrich, though he published a greenish book last year called A Contract with the Earth, doesn't really support the We Campaign's goals - a fact that was made clear this summer when he mounted a new crusade in favor of virtually limitless oil drilling. That's not exactly the fault of the We Campaign, but it does point to the real challenge...