Tonight a 7.0 earthquake struck the Caribbean nation of Haiti. Here are the evening's headlines on various news outlets.
DRUDGE
Hell in Haiti
CNN
7.0 quake hits in Haiti; serious loss of life expected
The whole world started to shake
ABC News
HAITI EARTHQUAKE: 'There Must...
About 100 years ago, in a small town in a galaxy far away ...
I was actually a crime reporter.
No, I didn't wear a fedora, I didn't keep 20-year-old bourbon in my desk drawer and go through a carton of...
I freely admit that I was among the loudest accusing the reactionaries of colluding int the brutal murder of Federal employee and census worker, Bill Sparkman.
I was wrong. Sparkman committed suicide.
From WaPo:
William E. Sparkman Jr. was found with his...
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Keep you doped with religion, and sex and TV;
and you think you're so clever and classless and free;
but you're still f**king peasants, as far as I can see
- John Lennon, "Working Class Hero"
Who Wants to Be...
"Doesn't speak with a negro dialect."
I have to be honest. I KNOW what my reaction would have been if some right-wing Republican congressman or senator had said such a thing. It would have been outrage.
Harry Reid? Honestly? Disappointment. I'm...
In this election year, one issue outweighs all others. No matter how many disagreements we might have with Democrats, nothing is more important than remembering that the GOP has devolved into a group of people who cannot even be...
As I review the comments over at other "liberal" blogs, I see a pattern of commentary from those that I think of as Puritans.
There is a prescriptive trifecta to "cure all our ills" in the body politic:
1) More parties. ...
As a veteran of one war, I can see similarities in how we are conducting this war. We're really doing nothing different that what we did in Vietnam. We have developed and use the same formula in every major...
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I have heard many of the political pundits say that if the unemployment pictures does not improve we can expect one or more of the houses of congress to change hands, reverting back to a Republican...
I know this is hard to imagine but what if the financial industry in a nation conspired to create a dishonest system that looked to everyone else to be a sound and thriving economy but wasn't?
Now suspend your disbelief...
