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Today, Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean and Rules and Bylaws Committee Co-Chairs Alexis Herman and Jim Roosevelt issued the following joint statement:
“Today, after careful consideration and debate, the Democratic National Committee’s Rules and Bylaws Committee reached an agreement on the two challenges before the Committee on seating delegations from Florida and Michigan. The Committee [...]

My mother-in-law and I both use Albuterol and I wanted to share this with everyone else who needs this medication.
Allergy & Asthma Network Mothers of Asthmatics Applauds FDA Public Health Advisory and Offers Critical Facts Patients Need to Know
FAIRFAX, Va., May 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Millions of asthma patients and their healthcare providers do not know [...]

Ok, I thought I had pretty much gotten to the point where I could stop being surprised by the bullshit spewing forth from the right wing opinionocrats. Gotta tip my hat to Blanca DeBree for using her rapier wit to once again prove that no matter how stupid something is, there are people [...]

Just got an email from the fine folks over at the Encyclopedia of Earth. They have launched their eagerly awaited Climate Change Collection. If you have not yet visited the Encyclopedia of Earth you should check out this new electronic reference about the Earth, its natural environments, and their interaction with society. The [...]

The Chief Economist and Chief Strategist for Canada’s CICB World Markets has released a free report that discusses the future of globalization in a world of rapidly increasing transportation fuel costs. When energy costs were low, it made economic sense to take manufacturing jobs to wherever labor is cheapest, but when the cost of [...]

There is a new podcast on Electric Vehicles that will begin airing on Tuesday, May 27, 2008. The podcast can be accessed direct from EVcast.com or via iTunes. The pair of guys producing the podcast released the information below as background on the project.

I find it very disturbing that the Republican National Committee did not learn from the trouncing they took in the 2006 midterm elections and recognize that people want to vote for a candidate and not against one. I understand that John McCain is no where near as exciting of a candidate as Barak Obama, but there must be more information about him that the GOP wants people to know about.

I always keep an eye out for interesting resources that can help me - and others - make sense of the world. I found one a couple weeks ago and I’d like to share it. The U.S. Department of State issues publications called “Background Notes” for 200 nations around the world.

The State Department released a new issue of their Green Diplomacy newsletter. I was reading it and felt like I was reading something from some alternate universe in which climate and the environment held a higher priority than say, subsidies and the highest profits in human history for the Bush administration ’s cronies in the [...]

Yesterday afternoon the US State department held an “On the Record” briefing on US policy in regards to Cluster weapons. If you have ever wondered why news reports from the Reuters or AFP or newspaper articles use such small quotes from press conferences, the material included below should explain why that is a normal [...]