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Soon, fast-talking Senators will take up the Kerry-Boxer bill to supposedly limit global warming. Meanwhile, corporate America is doing a global warming kabuki dance.

This week, Congress will likely approve legislation that threatens to terminate the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program. The $14 million program allows more than 1,700 children in the nation’s worst school district to attend some of best school in Washington, including Sidwell Friends, where President Obama sends his daughters. These families, whose average annual income is less than $23,000 a year, face the real possibility that they will have to send their children back to failing public schools next year.

What’s bigger than a trillion, a number so large it would take several lifetimes to count to it? Well, a quadrillion is a thousand trillion.

The world remains dangerous. Last week North Korea launched several missiles and detonated a nuclear device. Less than a week earlier, Iran tested a new missile and sent warships into international waters. Last year, Russia's defense spending increased by 34 percent and China’s by 15 percent.