When Time magazine asked, “You also believe in climate change, right?” Huntsman replied: “I’m not a meteorologist. All I know is 90 percent of the scientists say climate change is occurring. If 90 percent of the oncological community said something was causing cancer we’d listen to them.”
“I’m not a meteorologist. All I know is 90 percent of the scientists say climate change is occurring. If 90 percent of the oncological community said something was causing cancer we’d listen to them.”
Looking to take back the U.S. Senate seat he narrowly lost to Democrat Jim Webb in 2006, Allen, a Republican, has positioned himself as a reformer running against the Washington establishment he was once a part of, hoping to ride the tea-party movement's momentum to victory. [...] But for others, Allen's re-emergence as a right-wing warrior isn't an easy sell. "George Allen was a good governor, a poor senator and an even poorer choice for senator this time," said Jeremy Taylor, an executive board member for the Alexandria Tea Party. Allen already faces four opponents for the Republican nomination, a few of whom — like former Virginia Tea Party Patriots Federation leader Jamie Radtke — will be all too happy to echo Taylor's sentiments over the next year. [...] Karen Hurd, founder of the Hampton Roads Tea Party ... agreed with Taylor that Allen's record as a senator disqualified him from being taken seriously as a fiscal conservative who values constitutional principles.
But for others, Allen's re-emergence as a right-wing warrior isn't an easy sell.
"George Allen was a good governor, a poor senator and an even poorer choice for senator this time," said Jeremy Taylor, an executive board member for the Alexandria Tea Party.
Allen already faces four opponents for the Republican nomination, a few of whom — like former Virginia Tea Party Patriots Federation leader Jamie Radtke — will be all too happy to echo Taylor's sentiments over the next year. [...]
Karen Hurd, founder of the Hampton Roads Tea Party ... agreed with Taylor that Allen's record as a senator disqualified him from being taken seriously as a fiscal conservative who values constitutional principles.
The controversy over The Times’s use of the term “torture,” which was discussed two years ago by my predecessor, Clark Hoyt, has its roots in the newsroom’s aspiration to be impartial in a dispute that is both political and legal. The Bush administration offered formal legal opinions that the “enhanced interrogation techniques” it authorized were not torture under United States law. The Times adopted the view that labeling these as “torture” in news articles could create the appearance of taking sides.
The Bush administration offered formal legal opinions that the “enhanced interrogation techniques” it authorized were not torture under United States law. The Times adopted the view that labeling these as “torture” in news articles could create the appearance of taking sides.
In Texas, a bill to renew a five-year-old Medicaid women’s health program that is due to expire in December is under threat from passage, all given that entities that receive funding via the program may be affiliated with abortion providers. Case in point: Planned Parenthood. [...] The bill’s text includes an explanation for the abortion-provider/affiliate exclusion: Basically, when the state awards grant money to an entity or an affiliate of an entity that performs or promotes elective abortions -– even if the money is “designated exclusively for purposes that are not related to elective abortions” — taxpayer money is used to support elective abortions.
The bill’s text includes an explanation for the abortion-provider/affiliate exclusion: Basically, when the state awards grant money to an entity or an affiliate of an entity that performs or promotes elective abortions -– even if the money is “designated exclusively for purposes that are not related to elective abortions” — taxpayer money is used to support elective abortions.
A new anti-abortion rights website has emerged, its aim focused on the Girl Scouts of the United States of America. Speak Now: Girl Scouts is the product of two Texas-based teen sisters, Tess and Sydney Volanski, who claim to have recently quit the Girl Scouts after eight years because they discovered the organization has a “pro-abortion mindset.”
Speak Now: Girl Scouts is the product of two Texas-based teen sisters, Tess and Sydney Volanski, who claim to have recently quit the Girl Scouts after eight years because they discovered the organization has a “pro-abortion mindset.”
Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and his wife, Maria Shriver, separated after she learned he had fathered a child more than a decade ago — before his first run for office — with a longtime member of their household staff. Shriver moved out of the family's Brentwood mansion earlier this year, after Schwarzenegger acknowledged the paternity. The staff member worked for the family for 20 years, retiring in January.
Shriver moved out of the family's Brentwood mansion earlier this year, after Schwarzenegger acknowledged the paternity. The staff member worked for the family for 20 years, retiring in January.
Harmon Killebrew, the Hall of Famer who developed the strength to hit home runs by lifting 10-gallon milk cans as an Idaho farmhand and grew up to be one of the most feared sluggers of his generation, died on Tuesday morning at his home in Scottsdale, Ariz., four days after announcing that he was ending treatment for esophageal cancer. He was 74.
An appellate court in St. Louis delivered a major victory for NFL owners Monday, allowing them to continue locking out the players while they appeal a district court decision ordering an end to the lockout. The decision Monday by a three-judge panel of the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals makes permanent a stay the judges issued last month after U.S. District Court Judge Susan Richard Nelson ordered owners to lift the lockout. As a result, barring a settlement, the NFL lockout will continue through the appeals process, which could last into the summer.
The decision Monday by a three-judge panel of the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals makes permanent a stay the judges issued last month after U.S. District Court Judge Susan Richard Nelson ordered owners to lift the lockout. As a result, barring a settlement, the NFL lockout will continue through the appeals process, which could last into the summer.
Watermelons have been bursting by the score in eastern China after farmers gave them overdoses of growth chemicals during wet weather, creating what state media called fields of "land mines."