What Is Patriotism?
President Obama may deserve criticism. But trying to undermine his presidency, his legitimacy, his personal safety, especially in a time of war, is unpatriotic at best.
President Obama may deserve criticism. But trying to undermine his presidency, his legitimacy, his personal safety, especially in a time of war, is unpatriotic at best.
Janet Ritz | Posted 08.17.2009 | Green
Walmart announced this week that they are planning to put green/sustainability labeling on all their products within the next five years. The question, of course, is whether they can make it happen.
Janet Ritz | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics
Eight years of having someone to point at and say: See! There's the problem (and it was), was an easier proposition than looking in the mirror and asking: How am I the problem?
Janet Ritz | Posted 03.16.2009 | Green
My clients ask me why they should green their office in a recession. I reply that the Chinese use two separate brush strokes for 'crisis': One character stands for danger; the other for opportunity.
Janet Ritz | Posted 03.02.2009 | Entertainment
George Witte's Deniability is spectacular for its simplicity, its perfect placement of each word and for its bravery in peeling back the layers of the war on terror in verse.
Janet Ritz | Posted 11.20.2008 | Green
Palin had opposed the endangered listing for beluga whales in part by questioning the science and saying the listings would hinder oil and natural gas drilling.
Janet Ritz | Posted 11.17.2008 | Politics
Senator John McCain made a point during the debate that Barack Obama should repudiate John Lewis' Wallace comparison, which Senator Obama had done already.
Janet Ritz | Posted 11.10.2008 | Green
The global economy is losing more money from the disappearance of forests than through the current banking crisis, according to an EU-commissioned study.
Janet Ritz | Posted 10.22.2008 | Politics
Have you thought about what America will be like two years into the next administration?
Janet Ritz | Posted 10.16.2008 | Politics
The distortions coming from the campaign make it impossible to determine who John McCain is beyond the noise, the distractions
Janet Ritz | Posted 10.06.2008 | Politics
That's the question I want to ask: Sarah, who would you pick as your vice president?
Janet Ritz | Posted 09.27.2008 | Politics
I was in a doctor's waiting room recently, listening to pundits on a big-screen TV, when a middle-aged man turned to me and stated: "Too much spin." ...
Janet Ritz | Posted 08.01.2008 | Green
The agency charged with "ensuring the integrity of the futures & options market," has accused Optiver Holding of manipulating the prices of crude oil, heating oil and gasoline futures on the NY Mercantile Exchange.
Janet Ritz | Posted 07.26.2008 | Politics
Credit where it is due, Senator McCain. In the case of "Clear, Hold and Build," that credit belongs to H.R. McMaster and those who tried for so long to have his strategy implemented; too long for the many lives that have been lost.
Janet Ritz | Posted 07.16.2008 | Green
The G8 Statement's lack of requiring that carbon emissions reduction targets be met was seen as a result of US resistance, and will doubtless raise questions among both environmentalists and businesses.
Janet Ritz | Posted 07.15.2008 | Green
Hansen opens with current climate status: the loss of sea ice, the approaching tipping points, the effects on people and wildlife, the unstoppable sea level rise, shifting of climate zones and more.
Janet Ritz | Posted 07.09.2008 | Green
A new study warns that the integrity of carbon and methane sequestering permafrost is threatened by the rapid retreat of Arctic Sea Ice, and this summer may see the first ice-free North Pole for the first time in recorded history.
Janet Ritz | Posted 07.03.2008 | Green
This revelation comes after President Bush evoked executive privilege to withhold information on his intervention in the lowering of the rural and California smog standards.
Janet Ritz | Posted 06.29.2008 | Green
Today the President has asserted executive privilege to prevent the Committee from learning why he and his staff overruled EPA.
Janet Ritz | Posted 06.28.2008 | Green
Congress, candidates and electorate take note: The extreme weather the U.S. has been experiencing is due to climate change and is expected to become more extreme in the future.
Janet Ritz | Posted 06.14.2008 | Green
The need for the United States to lead by example through legislation has never been greater. Unfortunately, the need for change in Washington may have superseded that consideration.
Janet Ritz | Posted 06.03.2008 | Living
Why has 2008 has seen a record outbreak of tornadoes in the United States from California to the Midwest, from the South through the central plains, to the Appalachian states?
Janet Ritz | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics