When Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger leaves office this year, one of the key areas where he will be remembered as having worked across the aisle will be in the field of environmental policy. That is, assuming his reforms survive intact.

The Boxer-Fiorina race remains tight, which is remarkable given the anti-incumbent mood that has swept the nation and the state.  But Carly just can’t seem to seal the deal, and it’s probably because she’s stuck to an ideology that is simply untenable for vast numbers of California voters. 

Political pundits and news commentators continue to speculate about the possibility of a strong third party or Independent political movement arising as we approach the 2012 presidential elections. But, in doing so, they overlook the third party and Independent political movements taking shape across the country right now, in 2010.

Barely a month after his record-breaking "Randslide" victory in Kentucky's Republican Senate Primary, Rand Paul came to Washington DC for a fundraiser with his father, Congressman Ron Paul and Senator Jim Bunning, the man whose U.S. Senate seat Paul would be vying for in November's general election.