Crosswalk.com en-us Sunday, May 18, 2008 Sunday, May 18, 2008 rss.aspx support@crosswalk.com support@crosswalk.com http://media.salemwebnetwork.com/crosswalkredesign/images/display/crosswalk_logo_blue_tiny.gif http://www.crosswalk.com/news/politics/ http://www.crosswalk.com/news/11575717/ Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), if elected president, would be "ill-advised" to implement a new international agreement on global warming as he suggested in a recent speech, said Sen. Larry Craig (R-Idaho). Rep. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.), while not as dismissive as Craig about McCain's idea, nonetheless said he had a lot of questions about a new climate change plan. Fri, 16 May 2008 08:31:00 GMT 11575717 Josiah Ryan http://www.crosswalk.com/news/11575672/ President George W. Bush, speaking to Israel's parliament on Thursday, criticized people who "seem to believe we should negotiate with terrorists and radicals." Although Bush did not mention anyone by name, the Obama campaign took his comments personally, accusing Bush of making a "false political attack." Thu, 15 May 2008 02:10:00 GMT 11575672 Susan Jones http://www.crosswalk.com/news/11575664/ (Update: Steelworkers union endorses Obama on Thursday; the union earlier backed John Edwards, who endorsed Obama Wednesday.) Thu, 15 May 2008 11:19:00 GMT 11575664 Susan Jones http://www.crosswalk.com/news/11575645/ Facing a $1 billion shortfall in state transportation funding, Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine has proposed a regional increase in the state tax on car sales and additional hikes in state automobile registration fees and other taxes. Thu, 15 May 2008 08:32:00 GMT 11575645 Josiah Ryan http://www.crosswalk.com/news/11575650/ Even though polar bears have more than doubled in number in recent decades, the federal government has decided to list the bears as a "threatened" species under the Endangered Species Act, Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne said at a press conference on Wednesday. Thu, 15 May 2008 08:27:00 GMT 11575650 Terence P. Jeffrey