Has that been branded by marketers yet? This pernicious notion that the only problem with religion in politics is that athiests are misrepresnting it...as are physicists, anthropologists and every other kind of "ist" except his Xian brand of monotheist...must be resisted and exposed for what it is at every opportunity.

Huckabee...nice guy and I'd kill to have him manage my fast food franchise or work at the customer service desk for FEMA...but leadership from guys like him and Romney and the rest of the neo-wahabists running on their quasi-moralist interpretation of law need to have the ultimate inevitable results of their insane ideas projected in as bold a fashion as is possible.

Do you know what makes polar bears so unique? From the standpoint of ecology, it's not their adaptation to the cold, though that is imprtant, but the name says it all "usrsus maritimus"...the maritime bear. It swimms...to rookeries and haul-outs to eat birds, eggs and other sea mammals as far south as the mediterranean sea and the mouth of the St. Lawrence, back a few dozen generations ago until they were hunted and starved out by our destroying the once great shoals of birds and fish that was the habitat of the sea bear. The threat to this animal as a species isn't particularly the absence of ice and snow, though for some the ice is where they get their seals in the winter, but rather the ecological tragedy that took place over the first few hundred years of european contact when the waters of the North were the larder for europe and america. It's still ongoing and human extraction in the north continues. The connection between the ice cover and drilling for oil is real, but it is far more tenuous than presented in articles like this that attempt to incite urgency and panic into a process that is far mor complex than the discussion would lead one to believe. Almost never are good solutions the result of being blatantly careless or overly concerned to the point of panic, and yet here we are, projecting what the polar bear population will be in 2050.

I will admit to being a heretic in the discussion on CO2s role in the actual climate change we are measuring today. I'm in good company with Freeman Dyson and E.O.Wilson who believe that we are involved but that the simple connection is not reliable and could be dangerous if implemented. These guys are are a notch or two above the competence level of most science reporters who have escalated theoretical models to dire warnings which has now created a cascade of anxieties in which everything is directly attributable to global warming. I am not so sure that is a blatant attempt by some either side to simple accumulate power, but humans do have a knack at believing what they want to be true and ignoring or over-reacting to evidence when it serves an ideal that may not be based in reality..or have you not read history.

I very well think this could lead to a classic example of human folly for the best of reason...a children's crusade of immeasurably higher stakes and lead to a misapplication of efforts that are desperately needed to help the world's hungry and poor to find the ways to live in a fashion that doesn't destroy the rest while we try to save the ice.

There are things we can do that sidestep the inevitable attempts to lay this solely at the feet of the powerful ignoring so much of the benefit we've been complacently accepting and enjoying while insulating ourselves from the genuine problems that have been predicted for a much longer time than the fears we now face of global climate change.

Oh, and Bush and Chaney...monsterously greedy and criminally inept.

...I presume Ron Paul is going to inform the student body in a friendly tone that they must look outside of the government for jobs and means to spread their faith. He doesn't have to insult 'em or call 'em idiots even if I think they are...but to get people to be reasonable you must meet them where they feel secure and show them reason.

But rest assured I could care less if a candidate goes to a conservative venue to address the constituency, but I do care about what they says.

As for comments that you can tell a person by the kind of people they are associated with...please don't take that kind of reasoning too far. It made your dimwitted auntie or bible thumping mommy look and sound like idiots and doesn't do much for you either. Screw the appearances. We've been hosed by plenty who associated only with "our kind" often enough. I want a genuine coalition builder, which is what we will need if a transition to a world of less intrusive government, one that doesn't go looking for foreign wars to correct other nations' short-comings as we see them, if this is going to occur and I hope it does we will need even people the narrow minded on either side of the political spectrum don't like. To do otherwise it to assume you already know everything that's important and that is truly an ignorant position...and dangerous.