Wu’s Showdown with Angry Constituents in Oregon

Politico.com had a recent article titled “Town Halls Gone Wild.” Congressmen on both sides of the aisle are returning to their districts to find town hall meetings, once giant snore-fests, now increasingly hostile environments.

The untold story, however, is that some Congressmen are quite simply stepping in it. Leaving aside the question of whether uncomfortably high temperatures in the Northwest has people more irritable these days, Congressman David Wu (D-OR) recently did just that. At a recent town hall, Wu was faced with what ordinarily wouldn’t be a tough question: does he read all legislation before he votes on it?

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Finding the Middle Ground on Environmental Policy

On Wednesday in Seattle, Climatologist Patrick Michaels discussed the science and the politics of Climate Change at the Washington Policy Center’s 7th Annual Environmental Policy Luncheon and Conference. His qualifications include being a “research professor of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia and a contributing author and reviewer of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.” He knows his stuff and recently has published a book entitled “Climate of Extremes.”

He claims to operate in the middle ground of those in the ongoing debate over Climate Change and the policies that organizations around the world and in the United States that are currently determining. In his presentation, he pointed out the flaws from what the left would call “global warming deniers,” and also those who are sounding the alarm because of what they perceive as a crash course for planetary destruction. As a result, he angers both extremes.

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What Next for the Tea Party Movement?

FROM JULY 4 TO SEPTEMBER 12

The Independence Day Tea Party protest rallies held throughout the nation and throughout Washington State on the Fourth of July were a important and powerful expression of the growing dissastisfaction of the American people with rising unemployment, reduced value of savings and property, and wasteful spending by the Obama adminstration and congress.

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