The crux of 1 this declaratory judgment action is whether either of two liability policies issued to Bowling Green by two different insurers, Travelers Indemnity Company of Connecticut ("Travelers"), and Evanston Insurance Company ("Evanston"), provide coverage to Bowling Green for a wrongful-death lawsuit brought in Kentucky state court. [read post]

— Ross Douthat, The New York Times, December 9, 2009 In his column today, my colleague Thomas Friedman argues eloquently for a Dick Cheney-esque, “one percent doctrine” approach to climate change, which would treat caps on greenhouse emissions as a rational way to “buy insurance” against a potentially catastrophic outcome. [read post]