Stromberg: Won't climate change help America?

Ever heard this one: Even if the Earth's climate changes, warmer temperatures will be good for America -- longer growing seasons, perhaps? Or its cousin: Humans will simply do what they've done for millennia -- adapt to changing temperatures with different technology and behaviors? Isn't that bet...

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/07/AR2011030704221.html?wprss=rss_politics

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Michael Giltz: Movies: NYFF #2 -- "Dreileben" This Year's "Red Riding" Trilogy (Almost)

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Romney defends flip-flopping, says it's a habit he formed 'in the private sector'

In his 1994 U.S. Senate campaign in Massachusetts, Mitt Romney said the death of a family friend
after a botched illegal abortion had made him a committed pro-choicer.
 

Mitt Romney on why he flip-flops:

"In the private sector," he said, "if you don't change your view when the facts change, well you'll get fired for being stubborn and stupid. Winston Churchill said, 'When the facts change I change too, Madam." What do you do?"

That'd be an even more compelling answer if he hadn't said the exact opposite a week earlier:

That's different from what he said a week ago, when he said he doesn't change positions.

The American people "can tell when people are being phony and are pandering to an audience," he said, "and you?ll see that in politics. You?re not going to see that in my campaign."

And as sensible as it may be to change your mind when the facts change, exactly what "facts" changed between 1994 and 2011 when Mitt Romney went from a committed pro-choicer (see the above video) to a committed anti-choicer? Other than the fact that he's now seeking the GOP presidential nomination, nothing changed.

To be fair to Romney, it would be stupid to seek the GOP presidential nomination as a pro-choicer. I guess that means he thinks it's better to be a liar than to be stupid. The only question I have is which Mitt Romney was lying?

Source: http://feeds.dailykos.com/~r/dailykos/index/~3/ZpJxFnRAlq0/-Romney-defends-flip-flopping,-says-its-a-habit-he-formed-in-the-private-sector

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Senate funding vote delayed as parties trade barbs over competing proposals

After delaying a planned Tuesday vote on the federal spending bill, Senate leaders traded accusations over the motives behind their competing proposals to keep the government from shutting down later this month.

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/08/AR2011030803656.html?wprss=rss_politics

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New Hampshire college students can still vote in state, for now

A controversial move by New Hampshire Republicans to prohibit voting by many of the state's college students appears to be dead - at least for now.

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/10/AR2011031002875.html?wprss=rss_politics

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Obama May Suffer a Landslide Defeat

Charles Krauthammer, FOX News
"I think if Obama cannot rise from the 31% approval rating he has among independents, he's going to suffer a landslide," Charles Krauthammer said on the "Special Report" panel tonight. 

Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/09/29/krauthammer_warns_obama_will_suffer_landslide_election.html

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Fla. Republicans make it harder for ex-felons to vote

Florida Gov. Rick Scott and other Cabinet-level officials voted unanimously Wednesday to roll back state rules enacted four years ago that made it easier for many ex-felons to regain the right to vote.

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/08/AR2011030806672.html?wprss=rss_politics

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