Almost every time House Speaker Nancy Pelosi explains why she won't impeach Bush or Cheney she says that the Republicans want impeachment and that therefore she must oppose it.

She originally took impeachment "off the table" in response to a May 2006 Republican National Committee announcement that (contrary to all existing evidence) talk of impeachment would benefit Republicans in the November 2006 elections. (In fact polls showed a majority believing that electing Democrats would mean impeachment, and we elected 30 new Democrats and not a single new Republican.)

Pelosi made the same claim in this week's Time Magazine:

"I think the Republicans would like nothing better than for us to focus on impeachment and take our eye off the ball of a progressive economic agenda."

She also made the same claim in this week's Nation Magazine:

"You know who wanted us to impeach the President...it was the Republicans." Over and over again she argues that the Republicans want impeachment.

When he died, Entertainment Weekly called him the Berry Gordy of Columbus. It was August 2, 2005 when Columbus lost a hero. Bill Moss made his reputation in radio as the “Boss with the Red Hot Sauce.” But he was much more than that: a loving husband and father, good friend, public servant, and Soldier of the Year. He was a man of the highest integrity whose principles couldn’t be bought for thirty pieces of silver, who heard the voice of the Lord say unto him “Whom shall I send? Who will go for us?” and Bill answered, “Here am I, send me.”

Action needed by Monday August 11. The Ohio Department of Natural Resources Division Of Forestry periodically issues a Bid Prospectus announcing State Forest timber for sale. A July 14, 2008 Bid Prospectus calls for bids on 727,686 board feet International ¼ of hardwood sawtimber and 2008 tons of hardwood pulpwood stumpage located on 89 acres in the Shawnee State Forest. The bid opening is to be Wednesday, August 13, 2008 ay 3:00 p.m.

Among the trees to be cut are included 353 White Oak trees, 374 Black Oak trees, and 537 Scarlet Oak trees. 704 of these trees will be 20” average diameter at breast height (dbh). This bid contains 5 cutting sections and “All sections shall be clearcut for natural regeneration…The purchaser shall make reasonable efforts to leave large snags standing in all cutting sections.”

According to a recent call for action issued by Cheryl Carpenter founder of Voices For the Forest “Shawnee's Day Trail is ranked the 19th best trail in Ohio by Trails.com. The Trails.com team has traveled and explored the outdoors all over North America and internationally in Europe, Asia, and Africa and has received numerous prestigious awards.”

Dear Dr. Barnard,

In the early 1990s, the Food and Drug Administration reviewed a very flawed study funded by Monsanto, the sole manufacturer of the genetically engineered bovine growth-hormone rBGH.  If you want to know just how flawed that study actually was, read the detailed reports from the University of Vermont.  It is clear from their report they feel pretty bad about being duped into complicity with Monsanto and how such a flawed study could be used to support a product causing such clear problems in animals -- over 15 different problems in fact -- from increased rates of painful mastitis (and subsequent overuse of antibiotics to control it, thereby contributing to the ever increasing problem of human antibiotic resistance), to higher rates of teratogenic defects in offspring of injected cows.  Better still, read any of the reports from the scientists of the European Union who unanimously rejected the use of rBGH due to concerns over exactly these animal health concerns, as well as a growing body of human health concerns.  

The ever-weakening economy is driving millions of Americans into the ranks of the country’s highly exploited part-time workers.

Part-timers, generally paid less than full-timers, granted fewer benefits and otherwise treated as second-class workers, have long been a significant part of the workforce. Combined with temporary workers, they’ve made up almost one-fourth of the workforce in some recent years.

Many of the part-timers are women, most of them working to help support their families. Many have no choice but to take part-time jobs because full-time jobs or facilities where they can leave their children for care throughout the workday are not available.

But whether or not they would prefer full-time jobs, all the workers obviously would prefer to be raised from their second-class status. In many places, for instance, part-timers are paid less than full-time workers doing exactly the same jobs. And fewer than half of the part-timers have employer-paid health insurance or pensions.

Most of the part-timers have very little protection from the arbitrary actions of employers, through unions or otherwise. They have very little job