Norway
- Norway PM: "The Answer to Violence is even More Democracy"
- The Washington Post Owes the World an Apology for this Item--Seems to have lied about Al Qaeda's involvement to scare more people into freaking out over terrorism.
- Lawyer: Norway Suspect Wanted A Revolution--The right-wing Christian fundamentalist says the massacre (NYT) was 'atrocious but necessary'.
Playing Politics
- Congress Must Eliminate Its Own Pensions, Reduce Its Salaries -- Before Cutting a Dime From Middle Class Entitlements
- Vince Cable attacks 'rightwing nutters' over US debt ceiling talk--Business secretary says those trying to derail efforts to raise ceiling are bigger threat to world economy than eurozone crisis
- 'Super Congress': Debt Ceiling Negotiators Aim To Create New Legislative Body
- CNN Poll: Drop in liberal support pushes Obama approval rating down
- American Exceptionalism Fuels Republican Obstructionism
Government and the Environment
- This Hero Didn’t Stand a Chance--"Tim DeChristopher is scheduled to be sentenced... on July 26. He faces up to 10 years in prison and a $750,000 fine for fraudulently bidding in December 2008 on parcels of land, including areas around eastern Utah’s national parks, which were being sold off by the Bush administration to the oil and natural gas industry."
- Water-Regulation-As-Federalism Bill Passes House, Looks A Lot Like ALEC--"After being fast tracked by a House panel and passing the House last week, a bill that would strip fundamental powers of the EPA to regulate water toxins crept closer to a Senate vote."
- Who are polluters' best friends in Congress?--A report names 15 members of Congress who have prevented the EPA from improving coal power plant standards. Salon
- Under the radar attack on state parks
- GOP fails to turn off light bulb standards
- Republicans Use Appropriations Bill To Push Uranium Mining Around The Grand Canyon
- Bachmann’s Pledge To Eliminate The EPA Is Fueled By Koch
- In The Know: Coal Lobby Warns Wind Farms May Blow Earth Off Orbit The Onion
Just Business
- Big Coal: Inbreeding, Not Mining, to Blame for Birth Defects--No, not an Onion article.
- Nine Out of Ten Climate Denying Scientists Have Ties to Exxon Mobil Money
- Car makers oppose fuel standards that would save consumers $150 billion and is supported by 75% of Americans
- Feds: Massey faked mine records to deceive safety inspectors
- BP Wins a Big One in Oil Spill Litigation--But they got dinged big time for the 2006 Alaskan spill.
- Preventing radiation contamination more important than TEPCO's stock prices--The Tokyo Eelectro Power Company has a resisted a move to construct an underground dam to contain the radiation from the Fukushima plant.
- Judge Tosses Out Massive Ground Poisoning Class Action Against Dow Chemical
World's oceans in 'shocking' decline--As the saying never went, There's no more fish in the sea.
