The massive earthquake that rocked Japan this morning caused a huge whirlpool, which was caught on video. This is truly amazing and makes you think you are watching something from Hollywood. For more videos, check out this page at CNN.
With the recession, it’s no secret more and more people are flocking to the movie theaters for their entertainment. It looks like that trend could translate into a record year for Hollywood: Movie studios began the year with January crossing the $1 billion mark for the first time ever, and box offices this month are […]
In the first two days, more than 1,500 men, women and children received free treatments worth $503,000 (£304,000). Thirty dentists pulled 471 teeth; 320 people were given standard issue spectacles; 80 had mammograms; dozens more had acupuncture, or saw kidney specialists. By the time the makeshift medical centre leaves town on Tuesday, staff expect to […]
CQ Politics has an article up worthy of a full read. In short, the NSA was listening in on an Israel operative, with court approval. During these intercepts, a call from Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA) is picked up. Its reported that Harman said she would lobby the Justice Department to reduce charges against an Israeli […]
Remember when Joe Biden said someone would really test Obama early in his presidency? Well I would consider the pirates capturing U.S. ships and crew as a test, and after yesterday’s news of the Hollywood style rescue of captain Richard Phillips, it looks like he passed his first big military test. For President Obama, last […]
Kal Penn is getting a new gig, and this one isn’t in Hollywood: I understand it was your decision to leave House. True? KAL PENN: Yes. I was incredibly honored a couple of months ago to get the opportunity to go work in the White House. I got to know the President and some of […]
Good for him: Steven Spielberg said Tuesday that he was withdrawing as an artistic adviser to the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, after almost a year of trying unsuccessfully to prod President Hu Jintao of China to do more to try to end Sudan’s attacks in the Darfur region. Mr. Spielberg’s decision, and the public […]
Sometimes you hear praise from the most unlikely of places. Today it comes from Joe Scarborough: I spent Saturday with Sheryl Crow and Laurie David. No fist fights. No verbal insults. Just a couple of Hollywood heavyweights and a red state guy talking about saving the planet. Whether you agree or disagree with their environmental […]
The radical right has been trying to pin the church fires in Alabama on the left. Even Chris Matthews had his little go at it. Now it turns out they did it as a “joke”. This from the AP: Three college students, including two aspiring actors known around campus as pranksters, were arrested Wednesday in […]
Arianna Huffington has put together a cheat sheet on the CIA leak case to help people better understand what has transpired. She has coined that the leak case is worse than Water Gate, which could actually be an understatement. Watergate never actually got out of the planning cycle. It was more like a deterred terrorist […]