When all the news was turned to the flooding Mississippi, there was a big rumor going around the right wing media that the federal government wouldn’t offer any aide. Of course that was a flat out lie and FEMA is still expanding the financial aide. This week Joplin, Missouri was hit by the worst tornado […]
With all the talk focusing on Massachusetts this seems to have been overlooked: A strong earthquake has hit Haiti, shaking buildings and sending people running into the streets. The U.S. Geological Survey says the preliminary 6.0 magnitude quake hit at 6:03 a.m. Wednesday about 35 miles northwest of the capital of Port-au-Prince. People might think […]
It takes a nation being in rubble, millions suffering and tens of thousands dead, but we finally get a Sunday talking heads line up absent John McCain and Joe Lieberman this week. The show to watch will be This Week when Jake Tapper talks to former presidents Bush and Clinton about their Haitian relief fund.
Campbell Brown breaks down on the air after hearing the story of an 11 year old Haitian girl who died after being rescued from the rubble. (h/t Aravosis)
Hearing more and more people from the tea party crowd and right argue that we shouldn’t help out Haiti is truly appalling. We aren’t talking about some unknown nation on the other side of the globe. We are talking about our neighbors, separated by only 300 miles of ocean. For me I think of it […]
This morning, speaking from the diplomatic room of the White House, President Obama vowed “unwavering support” to the people of Haiti. Full transcript below the jump. THE PRESIDENT: Good morning, everybody. This morning I want to extend to the people of Haiti the deep condolences and unwavering support of the American people following yesterday’s terrible […]
Today’s NYT: Iraqi police and local officials said at least six children and eight women were among 32 people killed in a U.S. air strike on Friday which the U.S. military said killed 20 al Qaeda militants, including two women. Police Major Khedr Hussein said 32 people were killed at Ishaqi, 90 km (50 miles) […]
That is the number of Lebanese children killed in an Israeli air strike this morning (or Bush’s moment of “opportunity”): An Israeli airstrike killed at least 50 people — more than half children — in a southern Lebanese village Sunday, the deadliest attack in 19 days of fighting. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice postponed a visit […]
This statement by Bush this morning regarding the death of al Zarqawi is kind of odd: President Bush said on Thursday the killing of al Qaeda’s leader in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, offers a chance to “turn the tide” in the war but he urged patience and predicted more violence to come. So his death […]