A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia said the Environmental Protection Agency acted properly when it rejected a nonprofit group’s petition. The group had asked EPA to impose new controls on carbon dioxide and other automobile pollutants that scientists say trap heat in the atmosphere like a greenhouse.

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Republican Pennselvanian Senator Rick Santorum stood by his comments of three years ogo in which he claimed that liberalim was the reason underlying the sex abuse scandal in Boston’s Catholic Diocese.
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A federal appeals court yesterday backed the Bush administration’s plan to let special panels of military officers conduct trials of terrorism suspects detained in the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, overturning a lower-court decision that has blocked the “military commissions” for the past eight months. Click here for rest of story.

This ruling is a threat to us all. Bush II is drunk with power. If he could get away with it, he would charge anyone he wanted to as a terrorism suspect and throw them into either Guantanamo or into a ship at sea, and then toss away the keys.