Two bigwigs associated with the conservative website Newsmax.com are considering bidding for Newsweek. (Will their first story be a scoop about news for a military coup against Barack Obama?) … [Read more...] about Conservative Publishers Consider Bidding for Newsweek
Has Effort to Plug Gulf Oil Spill via Top Kill Failed?
Has the effort to plug the Gulf oil spill via the "top kill" method failed? Some news stories coming out suggest that, at best, the effort hasn't succeeded yet -- or that at this stage it may have actually flopped. What does it mean? A drip-drip-drip -- or, rather, a gush-gush-gush -- of bad news as the oil continues to spew, ruining the ocean, killing off fish and wildlife, … [Read more...] about Has Effort to Plug Gulf Oil Spill via Top Kill Failed?
Video: Obama’s Weekly Radio You Tube Address: Take Time to Honor America’s Fallen
President Barack Obama used his weekly address to remember all those who gave their lives to serving, fighting and defending the country: … [Read more...] about Video: Obama’s Weekly Radio You Tube Address: Take Time to Honor America’s Fallen
Big Oil Memorial Day
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Happy Birthday Tina Carr (Guest Voice)
Happy Birthday Tina Carr by Martha Randolph Carr June 1st marks the birthday of two great ladies who were both born on this day in 1926. One was Marilyn Monroe who is permanently fixed in our collective consciousness as a thirty-something but would now be a senior citizen talking on a cell phone and going to see Shrek IV in 3D, maybe with a few grandchildren. It’s a nice … [Read more...] about Happy Birthday Tina Carr (Guest Voice)
Gary Coleman 1968 – 2010
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Memorial Day 2010: Time to Recognize Valor
As retired military, I naturally like to write about military and national security subjects. Two subjects, or issues, that I have written about--probably ad nauseam—are the dearth of Medals of Honor that have been awarded to our heroes of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars and the continuing refusal by the Pentagon to reconsider its decision not to award the Medal of Honor to … [Read more...] about Memorial Day 2010: Time to Recognize Valor
Watson, There’s a Game Afoot: Perception is Reality
I'm a big fan of the original Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle and just finished re-reading the first Holmes novella, A Study in Scarlet, published in 1887. In it, Holmes, with his super-human powers of deduction, determines "whodunit," yet two bumbling Scotland Yard inspectors, Gregson and Lestrade get the credit. This outrages Holmes' friend, Dr. Watson, even … [Read more...] about Watson, There’s a Game Afoot: Perception is Reality
The Pennsylvania deal-making…
that made Abraham Lincoln president. (Crossposted here.) … [Read more...] about The Pennsylvania deal-making…
Goodbye Mercury
Now I may not miss Mercury the car but I will miss Jill Wagner, the Mercury Girl. My father's first new car was a Mercury but that was in the early 50s. Mercury has been little but a Ford with a different grill for years and other than the lovely Jill there is probably no reason for Mercury to exist. Just another sign that our automobile centered society is … [Read more...] about Goodbye Mercury
Painter on Sestak: ‘There’s No There There’
Painter is Richard Painter, the Bush administration's chief White House ethics officer. Yes, that's right. The chief White House ethics officer under George W. Bush says it's "time to move on." … [Read more...] about Painter on Sestak: ‘There’s No There There’
Repeal Don’t Ask Don’t Tell
The Presidential Press Conference, An Endangered Species?
So much for the promise of "the most open and transparent White House in history," at least when it comes to press conferences. Thursday President Obama held his first press conference 1 in almost a year: from 22 July 2009 to 27 May 2010. That's 309 days, if you're counting. According to the June issue of Harpers magazine, the longest period between similar press … [Read more...] about The Presidential Press Conference, An Endangered Species?
Gulf Oil Spill Reflections On T. Boone Pickens, Politics, Obama, Bureaucrats, Rule Of Law And Anarchy
T. Boone Pickens, the oil, gas and wind baron, knows something about oil well leaks. On the Larry King Live show Thursday, Pickens said he doubts BP's efforts to "top kill" the oil gushing from the floor of the Gulf of Mexico will be successful. He said the only sure fire way of capping the leak is by drilling two parallel lines and hoping one intersects below the ruptured … [Read more...] about Gulf Oil Spill Reflections On T. Boone Pickens, Politics, Obama, Bureaucrats, Rule Of Law And Anarchy
Remember The Troops
"There are 24 cemeteries throughout the world -- not in America -- where we have 125,000 buried. So that means there are 125,000 that never came home, they died in places like France, Germany, Belgium and in Italy. And so there is this whole international thing there that we not only defended our own borders, we helped defend the world. We tried to preserve freedom around the … [Read more...] about Remember The Troops
“Innocent, Unborn Children” and Oil Gushers
It never fails to amaze me, no matter how many examples I see of it, how the same individual can proclaim, from one side of his mouth, his pious belief in the "sanctity of human life" and the importance of fostering a "culture of life" when it comes to "innocent, unborn children" -- and from the other side of his mouth, compare living human beings to oil gushers. … [Read more...] about “Innocent, Unborn Children” and Oil Gushers
Internet activists use $1 trillion benchmark to highlight cost of Afghanistan and Iraq wars
For the last several years, thousands of blogs -- many of which are anti-war -- have displayed a small widget on their sidebars with a wildly fluctuating number that jumps up by several thousand nearly every second. The widget comes from Costofwar.com and purports to detail the money spent thus far on both the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. If you happen to be for one war and … [Read more...] about Internet activists use $1 trillion benchmark to highlight cost of Afghanistan and Iraq wars
The Gulf Before Deepwater Horizon
We are all aware of ecological Armageddon going on in the Gulf of Mexico as a result of the Deepwater Horizon disaster but Dave Cohen reminds us that the Gulf was already in trouble. The oil leak on the Mississippi Canyon seafloor of the Gulf of Mexico proceeds apace. It is not clear that recent actions have succeeded in plugging the leak. The widely dispersed petroleum is a … [Read more...] about The Gulf Before Deepwater Horizon
Science Explains Global Crises: People Everywhere are Nuts! – Nachrichten, Switzerland
Is it possible that the explanation for the incredible irrationality and incompetence shown by world political and business leaders comes down to a usually dormant piece of DNA? For Switzerland's Nachrichten newspaper, Patrik Etschmayer writes in part: Presumably like me, you my dear reader have the occasional sneaking, creepy feeling that a good portion of humanity is more … [Read more...] about Science Explains Global Crises: People Everywhere are Nuts! – Nachrichten, Switzerland
Oil Rig Inspectors
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