G.reedy O.ld P.igs Poster Child: Christie vows veto gay marriage law Los Angeles Times

New Jersey expected to approve gay marriage; Christie vows veto

Los Angeles Times - ‎37 minutes ago‎

New Jersey lawmakers are expected to pass legislation Thursday that would legalize same-sex marriage, but Gov. Chris Christie's vow to veto the measure could force a drawn-out battle similar to those that have roiled California and other states that ...

New global deal on climate change - Methane, Soot Politico

New global deal on climate change

Politico - ‎3 hours ago‎

Methane, for example, lasts only 12 years, but it has around 25 times more global warming potential than carbon dioxide. HFCs can also be much shorter lived, yet hundreds or tens of thousands of times more potent than carbon dioxide.

US will lead new effort to cut global warming from methane, sootWashington Post

Clinton, Kent to announce global warming planMetroNews Canada

In Depth:US Pushes to Cut Emissions of Some Pollutants That Hasten Climate ChangeNew York Times

World governments spend $1.4 billion a day to disrupt climate Grist Magazine

World governments spend $1.4 billion a day to disrupt climate

Grist Magazine - Jan 23, 2012

By Lester Brown We distort reality when we omit the health and environmental ... out nearly $1.4 billion per day to further destabilize the Earth's climate.

'All but 1 in a billion judge me irrelevant. I accept that, tho exactly incorrect I perceive they are. Jesus did the same.' SL (no detail)

SF Chronicle: Major Dem Donor: 'Till you lead on Climate Change I can't back you.'

Obama losing financial backing of big SF donor

San Francisco Chronicle - ‎1 hour ago‎

San Francisco philanthropist Susie Tompkins Buell, one of the Democratic Party's most generous benefactors, is keeping her checkbook closed when President Obama holds high-priced California fundraisers this week. "I want to look him in the eye and say, ...

Surviving the Slings and Arrows of Climate Change Huffington Post

Surviving the Slings and Arrows of Climate Change

Huffington Post - ‎54 minutes ago‎

External factors also played a role, one being climate change. For example, pivotal to the demise of the Anasazi in the US Southwest was the onset of a drought.

US Pushes to Cut Emissions of Some Pollutants That Hasten Climate Change New York Times

US Pushes to Cut Emissions of Some Pollutants That Hasten Climate Change

New York Times - ‎19 minutes ago‎

WASHINGTON - Impatient with the slow pace of international climate change negotiations, a small group of countries led by the United States is starting a program to reduce emissions of common pollutants that contribute to rapid climate change and ...

US will lead new effort to cut global warming from methane, sootWashington Post

Rick Santorum suggests opposition to public schooling CBS News

Rick Santorum suggests opposition to public schooling

CBS News - ‎35 minutes ago‎

Campaigning in Idaho on Tuesday, Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum suggested that he is opposed to a public school system overseen by the government.

Angels: Police buy cemetery plots to block Josh Powell from being buried next to his boys msnbc.com

Police buy cemetery plots to block Josh Powell from being buried next to his boys

msnbc.com - ‎7 minutes ago‎

Photographs of Charles Powell, right, and Braden Powell are displayed during their funeral services in Tacoma, Wash., on Saturday.

Obama Pushes $5 Billion in Grants to Revamp Teachers' Pay BusinessWeek

Obama Pushes $5 Billion in Grants to Revamp Teachers' Pay

BusinessWeek - ‎3 hours ago‎

15 (Bloomberg) -- The Obama administration began a push to tie teacher pay to performance instead of seniority, dangling a proposed $5 billion in incentives for US states and districts that embrace the president's approach.

Obama seeks $5 billion to transform teachingReuters

Obama proposes $5 billion to reform and improve teachingAtlanta Journal Constitution (blog)

A variety of forces is pushing coal back to the brink, but wayyy too slowly. [Politico]

A variety of forces is pushing coal back to the brink. [Politico]

1 in 4 children malnourished, global report says AP

1 in 4 children malnourished, global report says

Ahhh, c'ristians: Four TCU football players among 17 arrested in campus drug bust CBS

Four TCU football players among 17 arrested in campus drug bust

CBS News - ‎19 minutes ago‎

(CBS/AP) FORTH WORTH, Texas. - Four Texas Christian University football players were among 17 students arrested Wednesday in a campus drug bust, authorities say.

Four TCU football players arrested in campus drug bustChicago Tribune

TCU drug bust includes 4 football playersHouston Chronicle

Poll Finds Americans, Especially Independents, Overwhelmingly Oppose Subsidies to Fossil Fuels

Poll Finds Americans, Especially Independents, Overwhelmingly Oppose Subsidies to Fossil Fuels

'Dereliction of Duty to Act - the sin Gandhi most reviled.' SL (no detail)

Catholic Bishops Join the Culture War on Obama: Margaret Carlson San Francisco Chronicle

Catholic Bishops Join the Culture War on Obama: Margaret Carlson

San Francisco Chronicle - ‎2 hours ago‎

Heeding their protests, President Barack Obama relieved Catholic institutions of the indignity of having to pay directly for contraception for their employees.

Israel, Iran battle over who's behind string of bombings CNN

Israel, Iran battle over who's behind string of bombings

CNN

Nazi Isreal Brutalizes Gaza GHETO: Gaza Strip fuel shortage forces power shutdown MiamiHerald.com

Gaza Strip fuel shortage forces power shutdown

MiamiHerald.com

Netanyahu: Israel's terror acts undermine the world's stabilityHaaretz

Netanyahu: Israel's terror acts undermine the world's stabilityHaaretz

China Law Enforcer to Run Tibetan Area TIME

China Law Enforcer to Run Tibetan Area

TIME - ‎4 minutes ago‎

By AP Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012 (BEIJING) - China is tapping a career law-and-order official to run a Tibetan area at the center of self-immolations and protests against Chinese rule.

Crazy talk: Rick Santorum out-denies the climate deniers and spins eco ... Grist Magazine

Crazy talk: Rick Santorum out-denies the climate deniers and spins eco ...

Grist Magazine - ‎1 hour ago‎

He makes Newt Gingrich's moon-colony plans sound plausible and Mitt Romney's climate flip-floppery look presidential. While Mitt and Newt have both felt compelled to repudiate their former concern for climate change, Santorum can boast that he's a ...

Obama car czar calls Romney clueless on auto bailout USA TODAY

Obama car czar calls Romney clueless on auto bailout

USA TODAY - ‎12 hours ago‎

By Todd Spangler/USA TODAY and Detroit Free Press The former head of President Barack Obama's auto industry task force said today in an interview that if Mitt Romney seriously believes GM and Chrysler would have survived without federal financing in ...

Romney Says Obama Bailout Harmed, Not Helped, Auto IndustrySan Francisco Chronicle

Obama Peacemaker: Iran Is Ready to Talk NYT

Iran Is Ready to Talk