Climate Change and Other Environmental Issues - Matthew Rozsa

How GOP obstructionism empowered the presidency

Jan 11, 2015 | Climate Change and Other Environmental Issues, Conservativism, Foreign Policy, Immigration, mic, Political Ideologies, Political Parties, President Obama, Republicans

Published: MSNBC (January 11, 2015)

Listening to Rep. Louis Gohmert’s (R-TX) revanchist logic for his failed bid to oust John Boehner as speaker of the House earlier this month, you’d think the tea party wing of the Republican Party had been working with President Obama. “[We’ll] fight amnesty tooth and nail.

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7 things Americans think are more plausible than global warming

Dec 18, 2014 | Climate Change and Other Environmental Issues, mic, Original Source Salon.com, Satirical Essays

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Al Gore is the single-issue candidate we need

Sep 19, 2014 | Climate Change and Other Environmental Issues, Democrats, Elections, Elections - Presidential (2016), mic, Original Source Salon.com, Political Parties, Science and Technology

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Watch the North Pole Lose More Than Half Its Ice in 40 Seconds

Dec 23, 2013 | Climate Change and Other Environmental Issues, Internet Culture, mic, Science and Technology

Published: mic (December 23, 2013)

Millions of people have been tricked into believing a terrible myth that’s endangering Santa Claus’ very livelihood. Those doing the tricking stand to make a lot of money from this fiction and promote it in the most devious and unscrupulous ways imaginable.

I refer, of course, to the movement that denies global warming, and see nothing wrong with rapidly melting polar ice caps.... Read Original Article

Richard Nixon: The Social Liberal Of His Time

Aug 25, 2013 | Centrism, Climate Change and Other Environmental Issues, Economic Policy, Health Care Reform, History, mic, Political Ideologies, Political Parties, Republicans

Published: mic (August 25, 2013)

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This is the Most Important U.S. President That You’ve Never Heard About

Aug 20, 2013 | Climate Change and Other Environmental Issues, Economic Policy, History, mic, Race and Racism

Published: mic (August 20, 2013)

As liberals prepare to celebrate President Benjamin Harrison’s birthday today ….

I’m sorry? Most people don’t know that August 20 is Harrison’s birthday, much less care?

Well, that certainly is a pity. After all, if it wasn’t for Harrison, many of the policies liberals consider so important today might have never been enacted.

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