The U.S. Senate has rejected taking action on a significant climate or energy bill this year.

Elena Kagan's try for the job goes to vote today in Congress.

In this week's post, the Archdruid introduces several million of his closest friends, reveals the secret Green Wizard meaning of the word "garbage," and confronts the dreaded Squick Factor. His theme? Your future compost bin.

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For the past three weeks, more than 20 Mapuche Political Prisoners have been on a hunger strike across southern Chile to demand the immediate release of all Mapuche Political Prisoners, the Abolition of Military Courts and the dissolution of the country's Pinochet-era Anti-Terrorism Law.

SAN FRANCISCO -- A federal judge today struck down Proposition 8, the voter-passed November 2008 initiative that defined marriage as the union of a man and a woman.

In President Clinton's last full year in office (2000), the federal budget was roughly $1.8 trillion dollars. When President Bush was inaugurated in January 2001, his administration received the previous year's $236 billion dollar budgetary surplus.