Drilling in the refuge will not solve America's energy problem. The Energy Department's own figures show that drilling would not change gas prices by more than a penny a gallon, and this would be 20 years from now.

In reality drilling is the slowest, dirtiest, and most expensive way to solve our energy crisis.

What we need to do is really improve energy efficiency standards, develop in full scale renewable and alternative energy and use the one resource we have in abundance, our creativity.

That makes climate change a bigger public health problem than AIDS, than malaria, than pandemic flu.

National Osteoporosis Awareness and Prevention Month is celebrated each May, and becomes a chance for our Nation to become more familiar with the effects of this disease, and about the preventable steps that we can take to deal with it.

Let there be no mistake, Hamas is a ruthless terrorist organization.

Unfortunately, we are still in an age where individuals may be discriminated against because of health conditions.