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Ask to grind: Your questions for presidential candidates
Just before the next GOP showdown in Arizona, we asked Grist readers to help us come up with presidential debate questions that don't suck. You delivered in spades.
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Peter Gleick: Hero or moral moron?
Scientist Peter Gleick came forward to admit he first obtained the documents revealing the inner workings of the climate-denying Heartland Institute. Was he Goofus or Gallant? Here's a sampling of arguments on either side.
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Santorum campaign can’t tell the difference between environmentalism and Islam
Rick Santorum said this weekend that President Obama believed in a "phony theology," sparking concerns that he was publicly denying that the president is a Christian. He later clarified that he was referring to Obama's energy policy. Wait, what?
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One year in, GOP Solyndra investigation remains a gigantic nothingburger
One year after it started, the GOP investigation into Solyndra has found ... nothing. And independent analysts have found that the DOE loan guarantee program is on track and under budget. But Republicans aren't letting the facts stop their crusade.
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Hillary Clinton is tackling climate change whether you like it or not
Clinton announced a new initiative to start attacking "short-lived climate pollutants" -- otherwise known as "everything except carbon dioxide."
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Symphony of Santorum: Megadeth’s Dave Mustaine supports Rick
This calls for double devil horns, y'all: Megadeth's frontman just came out in support of GOP candidate Rick Santorum for president. One thing's for sure: Mitt Romney's sweating bullets.
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Why Ron Paul, elderly libertarian crank, turns young voters on
Paul's radical policy prescriptions rankle many -- but the perennial outsider candidate is winning an alienated generation's heart.
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Oil shale drilling another terrible aspect of GOP transportation bill
Yet another reason why the Republican transportation bill sucks: It would open up more land to oil shale mining -- a destructive and not-commercially feasible technology.
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Non-starter: Republican transportation bill is dead on arrival
Republican leaders in the House of Representatives, seemingly intent on driving the country into a ditch, have thrown together a “uniquely terrible” transportation bill. A growing chorus of critics says the legislation is far from roadworthy.
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Santorum warns of ‘reign of environmental terror’
Rick Santorum's latest approach to environmental conservation seems to be that liberals are a form of psychological terrorists, using guilt and science to distort the truth and frighten real Americans into sheeplike compliance.
