“It is now generally recognized that while Al Gore and I were ridiculed, we were right about global warming...It’s a serious problem. It’s going to lead to more hurricanes.”

-Bill Clinton

Clinton Seeks Middle Ground in Abortion Debate

WASHINGTON, June 13 — Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York moved today to shift the debate over abortion to the subject of access to family planning services, saying that the nation's focus should be on preventing unwanted pregnancies.

Mrs. Clinton's remarks reflect the degree to which Democrats around the country are trying find a middle ground on the issue of abortion since their party's defeats in the November 2004 elections.

"This should not be an ideological battle," the senator said during a speech to members of the National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association in Washington.

"Let us unite around a common goal of reducing the amount of abortions," she said, "not by making them illegal as many are attempting to do or overturning Roe v. Wade and undermining the constitutional protections that decision provided, but by preventing unintended pregnancies in the first place through education, contraception, accessible health care and services, empowering women to make decisions."

Clinton Seeks Middle Ground in Abortion Debate

WASHINGTON, June 13 — Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York moved today to shift the debate over abortion to the subject of access to family planning services, saying that the nation's focus should be on preventing unwanted pregnancies.

Mrs. Clinton's remarks reflect the degree to which Democrats around the country are trying find a middle ground on the issue of abortion since their party's defeats in the November 2004 elections.

"This should not be an ideological battle," the senator said during a speech to members of the National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association in Washington.

"Let us unite around a common goal of reducing the amount of abortions," she said, "not by making them illegal as many are attempting to do or overturning Roe v. Wade and undermining the constitutional protections that decision provided, but by preventing unintended pregnancies in the first place through education, contraception, accessible health care and services, empowering women to make decisions."

Daryl Hannah Removed from Tree

Los Angeles, June 13, 2006 - Sheriff's deputies and police evicted farmers and supporters Tuesday from a 14-acre urban community garden being reclaimed by the landowner, making arrests as protesters resisted by occupying a tree, chaining themselves to barrels of concrete and blocking traffic with demonstrations in nearby streets.

Actress Daryl Hannah and famous tree sitter John Quigley raised their fists as authorities used a fire truck lift to bring them down from a walnut tree towering over the green swath in a gritty area southeast of downtown.

"Daryl, we're with you!" protester Jenny Flores yelled through a megaphone from a nearby street.

Kerry: ‘I Was Wrong' On Iraq

Washington, D.C. (CNSNews.com) U.S. Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts on Tuesday told an audience at the liberal Take Back America conference that he was sorry for voting to authorize the war in Iraq, calling the entire mission "a mistake."

"We were misled, we were given evidence that was not true," Kerry said. "It was wrong, and I was wrong to vote [for it]."

Kerry, who led an unsuccessful bid for the presidency in 2004, said it was necessary to admit mistakes because "you cannot change the future if you''re not honest about the past." He criticized supporters of the war, who label anti-war activists and politicians as unpatriotic and pessimistic.

"The true pessimists are those who will not accept that America''s strength depends on our credibility at home and around the world," Kerry said. "The true pessimists are those who do not understand that valuing our principles is critical to our national security and it is as critical to our national security as our military power itself."

He said questioning the war and fighting in it are "two sides of the very same patriotic coin" and compared the modern anti-war movement to the anti-war movement in the Vietnam War. Kerry, who served in Vietnam, returned to the United States and offered testimony to Congress, opposing the war and describing horrific war crimes he said soldiers committed there.