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On Friday, the former fossil-fuel favoring governor ordered a study to see whether solar and wind development is making the electricity grid less stable.

Hopefully Sarah Palin realizes she's been invited to Hong Kong as a practical joke. CLSA, the Asia-focused broker who invited Mrs. Palin as keynote speaker for an Asian investment conference, is well known for their cheeky takes on investment research. In the past, they've polled Asian fortune tellers for index targets, hired anime cartoonists to draw Japanese research, and generally love to push the boundaries between entertainment and analysis. They are a real research firm, it's just that they love to sprinkle in some hilarity every now and then as a smart marketing gimmick. Sarah Palin is this year's big...

OTTAWA — Liberals and Conservatives joined forces Wednesday to block an NDP motion that threatened to trigger a fall election. The motion, at the Commons environment committee, called for the resignation of Environment Minister Rona Ambrose. If it had passed at committee, it would have gone to a vote in the House of Commons in the fall. And because the Conservatives declared it a confidence motion, it threatened to bring down the government. Even though Conservative committee chair Bob Mills had declared the motion valid, Tory members challenged his ruling and overturned it with the support of the Liberals. “The...

DataLounge Editorial: A Gathering Storm Friday, 18 October 2002 Honestly? We'd rather ladle hot tar onto our privates than give a minute's credence to the fetid propaganda spewing out of Phyllis Schlafly's Eagle Forum. But even we delightfully fay homosexuals here at the DataLounge in New York are generous enough to admit when that black-hearted harridan in the tragic wig and pilling-polyester has a point. Not. Pretty. In her October 9th newsletter, Schlafly writes: "The coming election won't decide whether or not we go to war, whether the Homeland Security bill will pass, whether seniors will get their prescription drugs...