About 10 miles from my house there is a big landmark that has been seen in such movies as Religulous and Alexandra Pelosi’s Friends of God. Well after massive storms moved through the area tonight, that status is no more: The famous King of Kings statue at the Solid Rock Church in Monroe has been […]
This time of the year one of my daily reads is the National Hurricane Center’s website. It’s just part of being a weather junky. Today I was presented with this: That’s a tropical depression forming way out in the Atlantic and has a 60% chance of developing into a Cyclone over the next 48 hours. […]
Here’s a view of a Republican America: From Think Progress: Yesterday, Chevron discovered a leaking pipeline that was spewing 50 gallons of crude oil per minute into Red Butte Creek in Salt Lake City, UT. By the time crews capped the leak, more than 21,000 gallons — between 400-500 barrels — of oil had spilled […]
From the Denver Post: Clear Creek sheriff’s deputies on Thursday arrested a rafting guide for swimming to a stranded young rafter who had tumbled from his boat on Clear Creek. Ryan Daniel Snodgrass, a 28-year-old guide with Arkansas Valley Adventures rafting company, was charged with “obstructing government operations,” said Clear Creek Sheriff Don Krueger. “He […]
Leave it to FOX News to manufacturer whatever they want to pass off as facts. Media Matters has done an in-depth report on Fox’s continued lies about Obama and the oil spill. This one really sticks out at me: Kilmeade: There are “problems” with BP giving “$750 million to a campaign like they did to […]
It looks like the U.K. has a “to big to fail” problem also, except this time it’s in the oil industry: In that atmosphere, the stream of condemnations from Washington has stirred a protective backlash, even in this closest of American allies. Boris Johnson, the Conservative mayor of London, said Thursday that he was worried […]
Unbelievable: Congressional Democrats and the White House are toying with different ways to force BP to cover the costs of damages from the Gulf oil spill. But they face stiff opposition from industry…and it seems leading Republicans. In response to a question from TPMDC, House Minority Leader John Boehner said he believes taxpayers should help […]
A new ABC/Washington Post poll echoes the results of the CBS poll earlier this week – Americans are waking up on offshore drilling: Just a quarter of Americans back expanding offshore drilling in the wake of the BP oil spill, and most fault federal regulators for the environmental disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, according […]
Rand Paul used to claim he was a Libertarian, but now he is trying to distance himself from that association: Republican Rand Paul said Tuesday he differs with the Libertarian Party by opposing abortion and supporting judicious overseas troop deployment, distancing himself from the party his father once represented in a presidential election. The U.S. […]
First we had some anonymous White House official blasting labor for supporting Bill Halter in the Arkansas Democratic Primary. Now we got some other senior Democrat doing the same. From Sam Stein: Another senior Democrat (who also would not be quoted by name) echoed the point in an exchange with the Huffington Post. “Labor is […]