Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy That’s video of an explosion this morning at the Fukushima 1 nuclear plant in Japan. The explosion didn’t actually cause a meltdown, but it has caused fears of a meltdown to heighten: Officials ordered the evacuation zone around the plant expanded from a […]
Darrell Issa is like that kid who just made hall monitor and takes his duties a little to seriously. Here’s some of what Issa wants to investigate: Issa, who will have power to subpoena government officials to appear before the committee, said he intended to conduct inquiries into the release of classified diplomatic cables by […]
Call the Pope because hell is freezing over: Senators John McCain and Maria Cantwell are joining forces to reinstate the Depression-era Glass-Steagal [sic] Act of 1933, which separated commercial banking from Wall Street investment banking. According to Newsweek, the two plan to announce the bipartisan McCain-Cantwell bill on Wednesday morning. The Glass-Steagall law was repealed […]
Obama made the gesture last night of crossing the aisle to say hello to his opponent: He [Obama] walked over to where McCain was chatting with Republican Sen. Mel Martinez of Florida and Independent Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman of Connecticut. And he stretched out his arm and offered his hand to McCain. McCain shook it, […]
Hillary’s campaign is circulating this photo: Drudge is on top of this story: With a week to go until the Texas and Ohio primaries, stressed Clinton staffers circulated a photo over the weekend of a “dressed” Barack Obama. The photo, taken in 2006, shows the Democrat frontrunner fitted as a Somali Elder, during his visit […]
This is one of my favorite photos from Ice Fest this weekend (you can view the rest here). On Saturday it was pushing 50 degrees here in Ohio. Needless to say a lot of the ice sculptures started melting from the sun. I took this picture at night and saw the puddle of water underneath. […]
She is standing by her words last night that she would support Clinton over McCain. This is neo-con meltdown in real time. Isn’t it fun to watch?
Mor e trouble for our planet: limate change has caused the greatest thaw of Greenland’s ice in half a century, perhaps heralding a wider meltdown that would quicken a rise in world sea levels, scientists said on Tuesday. “We attribute significantly increased Greenland summer warmth and ice melt since 1990 to global warming,” a group […]
Kos found this gem Yup – that is wingnut darling supporting Salt Lake City mayor Rocky Anderson. This is the same Rocky Anderson who called Bush a war criminal this week and said he should be impeached. Kos has a bunch of Rocky’s diaries highlighted. Hear that? It is the meltdown of the wingnut bloggers. […]
Mediabistro has the official statement from FOX on the Nevada debate: ‘News organizations will want to think twice before getting involved in the Nevada Democratic Caucus which appears to be controlled by radical fringe out-of-state interest groups, not the Nevada Democratic Party. In the past, Moveon.org has said they ‘own’ the Democratic party — while […]