AUSTIN, Texas -- Another bad idea. What are they, cheaper by the
dozen? The Bush administration has decided to dump all the high-level
nuclear waste in America into some yet-to-be excavated tunnels at Yucca
Mountain, Nev.
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The Office of Strategic Influence went from obscurity to infamy to
oblivion during a spin cycle that lasted just seven days in late February.
Coming to terms with a week of negative...
Thomas Friedman has achieved another media triumph with the
debut of "Tom's Journal" on the "NewsHour with Jim Lehrer." The
feature will be a "one-on-one debriefing of Friedman by Lehrer or
one of the program's senior correspondents,"...
AUSTIN, Texas -- One rarely sees a thoroughly bad idea advanced
by government. Lots of stuff from silly to smelly gets done, but somebody
usually benefits, even if it's not the American people. But can anyone see
an upside to having an...
AUSTIN, Texas -- In response to President George W. Bush's call
to all Americans to give service to our country, some are enlisting in the
Peace Corps, AmeriCorps, Senior Corps or the armed services. Others have
begun putting in their...
Seven members of the Cincinnati City Council voted in December for a death penalty moratorium resolution. While symbolic, the resolution in nonetheless significant...