Though most people expect the Bush administration to do little to pass climate change legislation during its final year in office, there is still a tremendous amount of work being done in Congress. The Lieberman-Warner bill appears to be most likely to get 60+ support in the Senate this year according to Lieberman himself. But what would be the political impact of such a bill? Does it remove global warming legislation from the federal agenda? Or will it just create a not-as-good substitute for legislation that might pass in 2009 or 2010 with one of the current presidential candidates? If...

Last Friday, the Berkeley Energy & Resources Collaborative (BERC) held its 2nd annual Energy Symposium at the MLK Student Union. The purpose of the symposium is to bring together students, researches, and professor from UC-Berkeley with entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, state officials, and other business people. The symposium was an all day event consisting welcoming remarks by Paul Wright (director of CITRIS) and a taped address by Barbara Boxer. The morning keynote by David Sandalow of the Brookings Institute was followed by breakout sessions on carbon capture & sequestration, transportation sector solutions, future of nuclear energy, and carbon neutral technologies. The...

Isaac Chotiner of The New Republic claims that Obama has not made a significant effort to capture the sub-sub-group voters. In the California primary on February 5th, Hillary Clinton won by a 3-1 margin in the Asian American vote. More publicized was her victory of the Latino vote. Chotiner offers up various reasons for Obama's inability to get more Asian American support: the Clinton's popularity in the '90's, California's battles over affirmative action, and immigrants' desire for stability over "change." The most interesting reason to me was that in his effort to become a post-racial candidate, Obama uses dichotomous language...

An estimated 1.5 million Armenians were killed between 1915 and 1917 for supposedly aiding Russia during World War I. The mass killings were carried out by the Turkish government fairly conspicuously through deportation and concentration camps and documented by everyone from the New York Times to the German Army. Basically a holocaust before the Holocaust.