The problem for McCain is that he himself has depicted lobbyists as being the Devil Incarnate.

Barack Obama has made an original contribution to the debate over gun control.

We find that not only aren't we getting warmer, we are in fact getting colder.

Sometimes being a "maverick" isn't as glorious as one thinks it will be.

So that's why we can't find him!

Burning plants for fuel doesn't work forever.

In many ways, Martin Luther King was a good man - certainly a highly intelligent man. Well read, well spoken, influential well beyond his life. But equal to all the Presidents of the nation?

Scientists want research grants, more published papers, and to be listened to by the general public. Bureaucrats want a bigger department and more clout. Politicians want a crisis - any crisis - so they can ride to power with a "solution".

Sure, global warming seems unlikely; but if it's true, it's so awful, shouldn't we take action just in case?

The ocean levels are not going to rise by 20 feet by 2100. According to the UN's International Panel on Climate Change, it's more like a single foot, or maybe 18 inches.