This Week's Links

News:

• 150 Global Firms Seek Mandatory Cuts In Greenhouse Gas Emissions (The Washington Post)
  
• Cellphone Tracking Powers On Request (The Washington Post)
• Evolution Debate Led To Ouster, Official Says (AP)
  
• Fresh Pain for the Uninsured (Business Week)
• In FOX News, Giuliani Finds a Friendly Stage (The New York Times)
  
• Murdoch Wants SkyNews to be More Like Right-Wing FOX (The Guardian)
• Natural Disasters Have Quadrupled In Two Decades (AFP)
• Pinocchios For Mitt and Rudy (The Washington Post Fact Checker)
  
• Short of Funds, G.O.P. Recruits the Rich to Run (The New York Times)
• Sorry, New York Is Not That Big (Politifact)
• State Science Curriculum Director Resigns (Austin American Statesman)
  
• Well, Which Is It? (The American Prospect)
• When Night Falls At School, Should Darwin Go Home? (The New York Times)
  

Opinion:

• AMS, The Power of Multiples (The American Meteorological Society)
  
• Gal Beckerman, Hillary Plays the Game (Columbia Journalism Review)
• Sherry Boschert, Bring Back the Electric Car (The Los Angeles Times)
• Rob Boston, Abstaining From an Ineffective Approach (AU)
  
• Curtis Brainard, Fusing Climate to the Campaign (Columbia Journalism Review)
  
• Glenn Greenwald, TIME Magazine's FISA Fiasco Shows How Beltway Reporters Mislead the Country (Salon)
• Scott Horton, The Torture Litmus Test (Harper's)
• Paul Krugman, Mandates and Mudslinging (The New York Times)
  
• Paul McLeary, The Usual Suspects (Columbia Journalism Review)
  
• Malcolm Nance, Waterboarding Is Torture... Period (Small Wars Journal)
  
• Mark Paul, Americans and Waterboarding (McClatchy D.C.)
  

Blogs:

• All You Need To (Not) Know About the Proposed FISA Fix (Balkinization)
  
• Beckwith Quits Discovery (Stranger Fruit)
• EXPELLED: Texas Education Agency Fires Staffer for Announcing Talk by Barbara Forrest (Panda's Thumb)
  
• ID Movement: Digging Holes in the High Road (The Panda's Thumb)
  
• If It Was Torture In Mississippi, Then It's Definitely Torture, Right? (Is That Legal?)
• It's a Tough World For Skeptics (Rationally Speaking)
• Mitt: No Muslims For Me (Matthew Yglesias)
  
• O Pangloss! (Denialism)
• Physicists On Science (Evolving Thoughts)
  
• The Pro-Torture Right (Andrew Sullivan)
• Six Degrees (Real Climate)

Resources:

• Effects of "In-Your-Face" Television Discourse on Perceptions of a Legitimate Opposition (American Political Science Review)
• Modernizing the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (Brookings Institution)
  
• Out of the Picture 2007: Minority & Female TV Station Ownership in the United States (Free Press)

Transcripts:

• Bill Moyers Journal (April 25, 2007)