What happens when healthy individuals become seriously ill? And because of this illness, the insurers jack the rates up so high that the individual can no longer afford the health insurance, or the health insurance is terminated altogether? Or, a pre-existing conditions exists? Unfortunately, this scenario happens all to frequently with the present outmoded health care/health insurance system.

So where does the responsibility lie in these cases? Perhaps there are a few in the one...

Don, I want to thank you for your informative and thought provoking reporting on environmental issues. As you mentioned, you have strived to draw the information for your articles from reliable, mainstream scientific sources. That is certainly a very sound starting point for any good reporting and follow-up discussions. And when there has been debate about these topics (which, of course, there always seems to have been!), I think you have also been quite fair when presenting and summarizing...

Here is a quote directly from Professor Lu;

Recently published climate research by Zunli Lu, a geochemist in the Department of Earth Sciences in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences, has gone viral across the Internet by bloggers. A number of media outlets, including the Daily Mail and The Register, which are published in the United Kingdom, claim this research supports arguments that human-induced global warming is a myth. The claims, Lu says, misrepresent his work and...

Besides the complicated environmental impact questions that the issue of copper/nickel mining brings up, there is also a private property rights issue here that stares us in the face. As the Minnesota non-ferrous mineral rights statue 93.05 presently stands, a mining company, even a foreign owned company, could use the "eminent domain" provision of this law to condemn and seize private property for exploration or drilling purposes. And private property owners would have absolutely no...