Washington

Aaron Wiener of the Washington Independent writes today that Sarah Palin might want to refresh her knowledge of geography. In an interview with Katie Couric, Palin again points to her state’s proximity to Russia as evidence of her national security cred.

In a recent conversation, my dad summed up the current financial crisis better than I could have: We’re trying to figure out how to engineer a controlled crash landing instead of allowing an all-out nosedive into the ground. I believe he’s right. The situation is that serious.

New Mexico and 10 other states and Canadian provinces have unveiled an ambitious plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions over the next dozen years, regardless of what happens at the national level.
Environmental groups called the plan by the Western Climate Initiative “a significant advancement” in the effort to combat global warming. Industrial polluters were largely [...]