The controversial siting of Giuliani’s emergency management center at World Trade Center Building 7 and “the issue of the radios between the police and fire department,” which was a factor leading to the deaths of 342 firefighters when the towers collapsed. The country’s largest firefighter union is now leading an anti-Giuliani campaign.

Giuliani has also recently come under heated criticism for ignoring toxic air pollutants in pressing for a rapid cleanup of the World Trade Center site after 9/11,

The majority of Republicans in the United States do not believe the theory of evolution is true and do not believe that humans evolved over millions of years from less advanced forms of life. This suggests that when three Republican presidential candidates at a May debate stated they did not believe in evolution, they were generally in sync with the bulk of the rank-and-file Republicans whose nomination they are seeking to obtain.

Also see this UC Berkeley study on the psychology of conservatives.

Forty years ago this week, I was asked to investigate the heaviest attack on an American ship since World War II. As senior legal counsel to the Navy Court of Inquiry it was my job to help uncover the truth regarding Israel’s June 8th 1967 bombing of the USS Liberty.

On that sunny, clear day 40 years ago, Israel’s combined air and naval forces attacked our American intelligence-gathering ship for two hours, inflicting 70 percent casualties. Thirty-four American sailors died and 172 were injured.

Anti-capitalist protesters clashed with police on Wednesday, injuring eight, as they tried to blockade routes to a summit of major powers in northern Germany.

Police used water cannons to push back demonstrators. Delegates from several G8 countries said the protests were limiting their ability to move around at the summit venue, a seaside resort on Germany’s Baltic coast.

‘Overall climate program in serious jeopardy,’ NOAA and NASA experts say

The Bush administration is drastically scaling back efforts to measure global warming from space, just as the president tries to convince the world the U.S. is ready to take the lead in reducing greenhouse gases.