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In Olso Friday, the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize was not awarded to the Burmese monks whose defiance against, and brutalization at the hands of, the country's military junta in recent weeks captured the attention of the Free World. The prize was also not awarded to Morgan Tsvangirai, Arthur Mutambara and other Zimbabwe opposition leaders who were arrested and in some cases beaten by police earlier this year while protesting peacefully against dictator Robert Mugabe.

Imagine, if you can, a modern society in which scientists positing theories contrary to those accepted by agents of the government are declared heretics and swiftly punished. Ray Bradbury imagined one in his novel “Fahrenheit 451,” as did Pierre Boulle in “Planet of the Apes.” Unfortunately, Al Gore has also envisioned such a culture – ours. Gore first introduced us to his one-time Harvard professor, Dr. Roger Revelle in his 1992 book, “Earth in the Balance,“ and refers to him again in his new film, "An Inconvenient Truth.” He credits the professor with being the man who originally influenced his...

Al Gore charges that President George Bush has "broken the law” and implies that Congress should have initiated impeachment proceedings against Bush for unspecified crimes. In a fund-raising e-mail sent out under the banner of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee with the subject line "Unprecedented,” Gore declares: "The evidence now makes it hard to avoid the conclusion that George Bush has repeatedly and insistently broken the law and the corrupt Republican Congress has shirked its constitutional duty to hold him to account." While Gore omitted using the "i" word, the consititutional remedy for a president who breaks the law is...