National Media Corps

By LEONARD PITTS JR.
MiamiHerald.com

"We're in an odd moment. Having opposed the freedom movement of the 20th century, some social conservatives seek, now that that movement stands vindicated and venerated, to arrogate unto themselves its language and heroes, to remake it in their image."

Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/08/25/1790858/this-is-who-we-really-is-g...

by Jacoba Charles - Aug 19th, 2010 // SolveClimate

"NEW ORLEANS, LA. -- Executive Director of the Center for Biological Diversity, Kieran Suckling, is on his cell phone as he steers a rental car through downtown New Orleans. Beside him, the Center's assistant director Sarah Bergman gives directions while working on a laptop and sending email from her cell.

"Since the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded on April 20…the environmental organization has filed seven lawsuits worth $19 billion against BP and Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar. Yet this is the first trip its busy directors have made to the place that they have been fighting to protect."

By Lisa Bloom, Special to CNN
August 18, 2010 2:00 p.m. EDT

"In politics, anything goes: Vague, sinister comments about same-sex marriage threatening children or undermining the sanctity of heterosexual marriage were prevalent during the Prop 8 campaign. In court, same-sex marriage opponents needed solid evidence to back up these and other claims.

"Despite 'able and energetic counsel,' they never produced it. That's why they lost, resoundingly, in the federal district court. And that lack of evidence should dog opponents up through the chain of appeals that is now beginning, because appellate courts are required to review only the evidence in the court record and to give great deference to Judge Vaughn Walker's findings of fact. He was there, after all, presiding over the trial, and the appellate judges weren't."

http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/08/17/bloom.prop.8/index.html

By DAVID YARNOLD | 7/20/10 4:05 AM EDT

"A small-bore U.S. energy law would create a few hundred thousand jobs, according to its sponsors’ highest estimates. But a serious clean energy law — one that uses the tools we know work against pollution — would create millions. Not to mention the pesky little matter of helping save our kids and grandkids from the worst effects of climate change over the next few decades."

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0710/39922.html#ixzz0uVODirRY

By Eugene Robinson
Tuesday, July 20, 2010

"When the nation's leading civil rights organization passed a resolution condemning displays of racism by Tea Party activists, leaders of the movement reacted with umbrage so thick you could cut it with a knife -- then demonstrated that the NAACP's allegation was entirely justified."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/19/AR201007...

Posted by Michael Lemonick Thursday, June 17, 2010 at 2:00 pm

Read more: http://ecocentric.blogs.time.com/2010/06/17/hot-times-in-antarctica/#ixz...

"The world's polar regions are warming up faster than the global average, but the western edge of the Antarctic Peninsula is especially steamy. Over the past 50 years, winter temperatures have shot up by an almost unbelievable 6°C—more than five times the global average, according to a paper just published in Science."

The Center for Biological Diversity has launched a Gulf-Crisis Web site that will be updated daily with information on how big the spill is, where it's hitting shore, what species are suffering the impacts, and how the rescue effort is going.