What he likely did not expect was that his relaunch would be completely hijacked by one single issue. Let me get this straight. You do not think that human activity, the production of co2, has caused warming to our planet . I do not believe that human activity is causing these dramatic changes to our climate the way these scientists are portraying it. Thats what i do not and i do not believe that the laws they propose we pass will do anything about it, except it will destroy our economy. That bit of obfuscation during an interview meant to launch his 2016 bid wasnt rubio planning to make news or plant some kind of flag on the issue of Climate Change, no, it was marco rubio doing what every potential 2016 president ial candidate has to do as they gear up for the 2016 koch primary. Which is to simultaneously not accept the obvious Scientific Consensus about whats happening right in front of our eyes, while at the same time, not looking like a total idiot while doing it. Its a harder danc
I do not believe that human activity is causing these dramatic changes to our climate the way these scientists are portraying it. Thats what i do not and i do not believe that the laws they propose we pass will do anything about it, except it will destroy our economy. That bit of obfuscation during an interview meant to launch his 2016 bid wasnt rubio planning to make news or plant some kind of flag on the issue of Climate Change, no, it was marco rubio doing what every potential 2016 president ial candidate has to do as they gear up for the 2016 koch primary. Which is to simultaneously not accept the obvious Scientific Consensus about whats happening right in front of our eyes, while at the same time, not looking like a total idiot while doing it. Its a harder dance to pull off than you might think, as marco rubio is finding out this week. Yesterday, rubio headed to the National Press club to unveil his retirement reform plan, one more step in the 2016 rampup. He was greeted with ques
I apologize to all of those people who gave of their faith, time energy and resources to elect me to a fourth term last year and who has supported me the last four decade. It is deeply troubling to realize a person can be charged, tried, convicted and sentenced by the media with no due process and no independent verification of the allegations involved. Nonetheless i understand i have become a liability to the very institutions and policy toss which i have dedicated my career and indeed my entire adult life. He goes on to say he is confident that he has not broken any laws or done anything dishonest. But reading from his statement here, the escalating media frenzy has clearly reached the point of no return. Kitzhaber says he will step down officially next wednesday morning 10 00 a. M. Local time. 10 00 a. M. In oregon. John kitzhaber is 67 years old. He spent what feels like a lifetime in politics in oregon. He was on his way to becoming the second largest serving governor in the histo
justice alito, in tomorrow s issues where we have briefed the matter thoroughly and will be prepared to discuss it with the court tomorrow. with respect to the merits, two fundamental points lead to the conclusion that there s an equal protection violation here. first, every warning flag that warrants exacting scrutiny is present in this case. and petitioners defense of proposition 8 requires the court to ignore those warning flags and instead apply highly deferential lee optical rational basis review as though proposition 8 were on a par with the law of treating opticians less favorably than optometrists, when it really is the polar opposite of such a law. general verrilli, i could understand your argument if you were talking about the entire united states, but you your brief says it s only eight or nine states, the states that permit civil unions, and that s brings up a question that was asked before. so a state that has made considerable progress has to go all the way
0 the answer could make history, the question is, will the supreme court decide there s no good way of defending the defense of marriage act? also tonight, a massive landslide. later, new insight, new details into the dark and dangerous mind of that man, the tucson rampage killer, what he was doing and saying, we begin tonight at the supreme court. we begin tonight with the supreme court, with signs that the so-called defense of marriage act is in deep trouble, doma, as it is called, the 1996 law defining marriage as between a man and woman. tell that to an 83-year-old woman, edith windsor, fought to get her story and case that bears her name, united states v. windsor before the highest court in the land. edith windsor marry her wife in canada. when her wife died she was forced to pay $360,000 in inheritance tax, because the marriage was not recognized by doma. the obama administration refused to defend it. a lawyer for the white house speaking today, drawing tough questioning fr