At the Ballinger Memorial Hospital, a 25-bed hospital in Ballinger, Texas, the center's staff is acutely aware of the high-stakes political debate over the health care law taking place in Washington.

CNN: Voters sick of health care debate

The stakes in this debate are high.

ECONOMIST: Back to the glory days?

The stakes in the global-warming debate are much too high to ignore this observational evidence and declare the science settled.

WSJ: Concerned Scientists Reply on Global Warming

The stakes in this apparently esoteric debate over statistics are quite high.

ECONOMIST: Sampling is wrong: official