How Dirty, Long Will the Campaign Be?

With John McCain already claiming that he can't control how other Republicans support his campaign, even the Republican National Committee, and having already received emails misrepresenting papers written by Michele Obama during her freshman year at Princeton, it looks like the upcoming campaign contain the same dirty tricks as the 2004 campaign. Of course, Moveon.Org, is readying it's arsenal to respond in kind.

All this make we wish we could vote in July and get all this over with. Surely a month is long enough for a debate for voters to learn the policy differences between McCain and Obama. We already know who they are from the prelims. What's left beyond many numbing months of media campaigns, misleading ads, out of context sound bites, and the same old talking heads on TV?

Makes me wonder why it's the Europeans who have better health care, better mass transit, bans of plastic bags, and shorter election campaigns. Why can't we?

Global Warming: A Pinata for Anti-Environmentalists

Science is an evolving exploration of the universe. Although there is a emerging consensus in the scientific community about global warming and mankind's ability to meaningfully affect the earth's climate, it's still a legitimate debate. Unfortunately every uncertainty about man's role in climate change is being used by some to discredit environmental concerns as a whole.

One of the most visible examples is John Coleman, former weatherman and CEO of the Weather Channel who wants to sue Al Gore for fraud for his success raising awareness over global warming. As Mr. Coleman puts it:

"Global warming frenzy is, indeed, threatening our civilization...

If Al Gore and his global warming scare dictates the future policy of our governments, the current economic downturn could indeed become a recession, drift into a depression and our modern civilization could fall into an abyss. And it would largely be a direct result of the global warming frenzy"

Somehow Mr. Coleman has missed out on rising demand for resources in developing countries, speculation, mounting US debt and a myriad of factors that have caused fuel prices to rise. Even worse is overlooking at all the other undeniable effects of pollution that threaten our environment in even our most pristine areas.