"Where the principle of difference [between political parties] is as substantial and as strongly pronounced as between the republicans and the monocrats of our country, I hold it as honorable to take a firm and decided part and as immoral to pursue a middle line, as between the parties of honest men and rogues, into which every country is divided."

--Thomas Jefferson

Categories

Pages

Recommended Blogs

Virginia Blogs

Archives

Archive for August 23rd, 2007

Fouling the nest.

Thursday, August 23rd, 2007

Tomorrow the federal Office of Surface Mining (OSM) will publish regulations that, in effect, legalize the coal-mining practice of mountaintop removal.
Over at DailyKos, Devilstower does a fine job of expressing the outrage we all should feel about this development. I won’t repeat those points. But I do want to add a little.
I grew up in […]