Sen. Barack Obama has announced that he will make [http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/08/obama-vp.html] his running-mate choice known via the Internet to his supporters and media before the Democratic national convention later this month. Sen. John McCain is expected, similarly, to make
China's too stupid to do us in. They loaned us $400 billion, remember?
The search for the Northwest Passage spurred the European exploration of the Pacific Northwest. With global warming, Arctic land claims are heating up as the U.S., Canada, Denmark, Russia, Iceland and Norway vie for sea lanes, the seabed and once ice-bound islands. Finally, there's a great visual to
Once regarded as an overwhelming favorite, the Democrat has been sucked into day-to-day campaign sparring and forced to prove himself in Sen. John McCain's comfort zone of foreign policy and security. Here's what Obama needs to do to turn it around, starting with a focus on his turf — economics and
Seattle's obsession with largely symbolic green measures (banning bottled water at City Hall and taxing plastic bags) and the current trend of marketing everything from hybrids to condos as "green" might actually do more harm than good.
