RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan (AP) – Japan’s prime minister surveyed the damage in a town gutted by a massive tsunami, as officials said Saturday that highly radioactive water was leaking into the sea from the nuclear plant stricken by the disaster. The Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear complex has been spewing radioactivity since March 11, when a magnitude-9.0 earthquake [...]
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Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., raised a combined total of $2.2 million in the first quarter of 2011, outgaining presumed presidential contender Mitt Romney who raised $1.9 million over the same period. Bachmann’s political action committee, MichelePAC, raised $500,000 while her Congressional reelection fund took in $1.7 million. The funds raised for her Congressional reelection could [...]
H/T BryanLSinger More Americans work for the government than in manufacturing, farming, fishing, forestry, mining and utilities combined. Wall Street Journal: By STEPHEN MOORE If you want to understand better why so many states—from New York to Wisconsin to California—are teetering on the brink of bankruptcy, consider this depressing statistic: Today in America there are [...]
Washington Post: The story you are about to read is true. The names have not been changed because otherwise it wouldn’t be that interesting. The Fairfax County police on Tuesday arrested a man named Kevin Lee Cokayne and charged him with dealing drugs. The police were looking to acquire Cokayne, so they went to a [...]
BBC The US seems to be scratching its head over how to handle anti-government protests in Syria, which is not an ally but is a big regional player, says the BBC’s Kim Ghattas in Washington. The White House has again condemned the use of violence against citizens demonstrating in Syria – but this time it [...]
(Reuters) – A Southwest Airlines plane with a gaping hole in fuselage made an emergency landing at a military base in Arizona on Friday after a sudden drop in cabin pressure, airline officials said. Southwest Flight 812 from Phoenix to Sacramento, with 118 passengers on board, landed safely at the Yuma Marine Corps Air Station [...]
NYTimes PHOENIX — Arizona’s Medicaid program, criticized last year when it halted some organ transplants to save money, has come up with another cost-saving measure that has people talking. Following the lead of some private health plans, which charge premiums to members who smoke or engage in other unhealthy behavior, Arizona’s Health Care Cost Containment [...]
Knottiesniche.com There have been many times over the past three years I have truly wondered if when that General handed me the folded flag from my son’s coffin and said “On Behalf of a grateful nation” if this nation is truly grateful. I wonder if the average American understands the sacrifices our troops make daily [...]
I know some of you will disagree but that jackass Terry Jones is an attention whore and is as guilty as anyone for this mess. You have to understand that the people of Afghanistan are centuries behind us in culture and are acting on sheer emotion and belief. There is no logic to their way [...]
UnknownsolidersBlog “We are not at war,” a veteran who served in the Army for eight years told me Wednesday in Maryland. “Only some of us are.” I wasn’t initially sure how to feel about that statement. The painful events of the next 48 hours showed that he was on to something. Beginning at about 10 [...]
The Sun TITS are bouncing back in British gardens, a survey reveals. Sightings of the much-loved birds leapt, with blue tits up 22 per cent and great tits rising 12 per cent. Coal tits have increased by 24 per cent, while the number of long-tailed tits soared 32 per cent the past year. Their comeback [...]
AJC The Georgia Legislative Black Caucus filed a lawsuit Monday against the state of Georgia seeking to dissolve the city charters of Dunwoody, Sandy Springs, Johns Creek, Milton and Chattahoochee Hills. Further, the lawmakers, joined by civil rights leader the Rev. Joseph Lowery, aim to dash any hopes of a Milton County. The lawsuit, filed [...]
