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Senator Bernie Sanders - Daily News

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Social Security: "Senate vote for an amendment by Sen. Bernie Sanders put the Senate on record against cutting Social Security and disabled veterans benefits..."

Global Warming: "Senate liberals haven't given up on forcing votes on steps that would take on greenhouse gases directly..."

Older Americans: "Sen. Sanders “scored a modest — if largely symbolic — victory for older Americans as the Senate pulled an all-nighter last Friday to debate and vote on budget amendments..."

USPS: "Legislation to fund the government through Sept. 30 included a provision requiring the United States Postal Service to maintain six-day delivery..."

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Global Warming: Hurricane Sandy, White Christmas and Leadership

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            If you were born prior to 1970 and lived in all but a few of the most southern American states, then there is a good chance that you can remember winters that involved snow and freezing temperatures. I can remember a few times from my childhood when school was cancelled because the wind chill temperature was below zero and it was deemed too dangerous for students to walk to school or wait at their bus stop.  Devastating winters were just a factor of Midwest life.  Global warming is changing everything, including Christmas.

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Susan Rice's issue is not Benghazi, it's the Tar Sands Pipeline

Secretary of State Candidate Has a Major Financial Stake in Canadian Tar Sands

I keep wondering why Benghazi has been so blown out of proportion, it's not really an issue for Susan Rice, she said what the intelligence agencies told her to say and the right has had a field day using her as their latest chew toy. What concern's me more is her huge investments in Canadian tar sands and oil (which is smart, oil is PROFITABLE, it's why we can't make more changes in energy policy than we want to, I also believe it's immoral, profitable doesn't equal moral), more importantly, her investments in the company that wants to run a tar sands pipeline through parts of our Country.

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Sunday Train: Trains and Not Destroying Civilization

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Burning the Midnight Oil for Living Energy Independence

When one first thinks about it, one would think the politics of not destroying civilization should be simple. It seems that "Not destroy civilization, Yes/No" would get a very high "Yes" vote.

In the immediate future in US political, however, its far more complicated than that, given that one party's position is "No", and the other party's position is "Maybe, a little bit of not destroying civilization, if its not too inconvenient".

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Carbon Tax Could Reduce Deficit by 1.2 Trillion Over 10 Years

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I am a strong believer in the power of the tax code. Rewarding or discouraging bahavior by the use of the tax code has proven to be extremely effective. Generally, I like the idea of a Carbon Tax because the one thing that will always motivate the private sector is money. A new report released by the Congressional Research Service (September 17, 2012) states that based on it's application, a Carbon Tax could potentially reduce the deficit by 1.2 trillion dollars over a ten year period. That's enough to get even conservatives on board the tax train.

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Hot shots: imaging climate disruption

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Many struggle to find ways to effectively communicate the changes occurring with climate change. Vice President Gore, in Inconvenient Truth, has images of trucks stuck in mud in the Arctic where there had been ice roads, babies in floods, storms, melting ice, and other powerful photos. There are also many graphs. There are cartoons. And ...

In the past week, a number of high-quality paths to visualizing climate change came out. Here are three worth watching and sharing (feel free to suggest others in the comments).

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