Science or Politics?

Science or Politics?

On a balmy June day in 2006, the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), under Gov. Mitt Romney's Commissioner Robert W. Golledge, did something new: it gave a small city in the western part of the state permission to circumvent drinking water...

The World This Week: What to Do About Joe?

Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.) finds himself in exactly the same position that Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman found himself in in 2000. Biden has been selected as the Democratic presidential candidate's vice presidential running mate in a year when he also faces a...

Imperium Watch: Dangerous When Wet

Hats off to Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley for demanding that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission consider the potential of hot waste stored at nuclear power plants to become a bomb in the hands of terrorists. Two years ago, Coakley petitioned the NRC to...

Guilty by Reason of Insanity

Last month, Dr. Bruce E. Ivins died an innocent man. Days later, authorities sought to shroud his passing in a cloud of guilt.His wife and children barely had weeks to grieve before the Federal Bureau of Investigation decided to bypass judge and jury and argue their...

Biden Time

We few, we proud, we Delawareans have a particular view of Sen. Joe Biden, the six-term Democrat announced as Barack Obama's vice-presidential running mate. If you take the Acela Express to D.C. often enough, you'll see him in the back of one of those cars,...