It's not at all new for wealthy and powerful interests to try to hide the ball and ignore independent analyses of relevant facts.

It's not unusual to find big political shifts that take place beneath the surface before they're visible above the surface.

...2009 saw the eighth 'ten-year flood' of Fargo, North Dakota, since 1989. In Iowa, Cedar Rapids was hit last year by a flood that exceeded the 500-year flood plain. All-time flood records are being broken in areas throughout the world.

Hey, you know what, I've gotta go on that 'Letterman' show. That show is so lame.

Israel has its own right as a nation to defend its national security.

The answer is to end our reliance on carbon-based fuels... If we succeed, we create booming new industries, wealth, clean secure energy and maybe we prevent the greatest disaster so far in human history, saving millions of lives while improving billions more. If we fail, basically it's business as usual while things slowly get worse all around us.

As many know, the Chinese expression for "crisis" consists of two characters side by side. The first is the symbol for "danger," the second the symbol for "opportunity."