December 8, 2010 – 9:05 am
Remember when developing countries were referred to as third world rat holes, er, countries? And how they have been “developing” for going on 20-30 years? Countries where many of the peasants need to cut down trees in order to survive? And the countries use the trees to continue “developing”? Well, now For years, policymakers and […]
December 7, 2010 – 7:36 pm
Just ask the Smoking Gun In the days after Bristol Palin was voted into the finals of “Dancing with the Stars,†viewers from across the country wrote to the Federal Communications Commission accusing the ABC show of everything from running a “payola type program†to “encouraging and promoting teen pregnancy.†Other viewers sought an FCC […]
December 7, 2010 – 3:25 pm
You said you wanted more hysteria, here you go In the next decade, the effects of a rapidly warming climate could kill 5 million people—as many as live in Singapore or Finland. More than 99 percent of those deaths will likely occur in developing countries, and almost four-fifths are expected to happen in South Asia […]
December 7, 2010 – 9:15 am
Apparently, it has nothing to do with having no choice in breaking yet another promise to his unhinged rich people hating base: Obama’s tax cut extension part of strategy to show bipartisanship Although his liberal supporters are furious about the decision, President Obama’s willingness to extend all of the George W. Bush-era tax cuts is […]
December 7, 2010 – 7:49 am
Unshockingly, this breathless report comes from a reporter in…….exotic Cancun, Mexico, rather than from the Marshall Islands CANCUN, Mexico – Encroaching seas in the far Pacific are raising the salt level in the wells of the Marshall Islands. Waves threaten to cut one sliver of an island in two. “It’s getting worse,” says Kaminaga Kaminaga, […]
December 6, 2010 – 10:49 pm
You’ve probably heard this already, but, hey, what the hell George W. Bush’s job approval rating as president has spiked to 47 percent, according to a Gallup poll released Monday. That’s 1 point higher than President Barack Obama’s job approval rating in a poll taken the same week. Do I personally rate him that high? […]
December 6, 2010 – 4:38 pm
Reality, and science, is starting to roll in. As Europe is locked in a massive cold snap (oh, sorry, I forgot, cold is now caused by greenhouse gases), and America is seeing lots of early snowfall and cold temperatures, people are looking at the real data, and The Observatory provides this bit of knowledge If […]
December 6, 2010 – 2:08 pm
A little story that slipped under the radar from Friday, via CNS News American journalism is in “grave peril,” FCC Commissioner Michael Copps says, and to bolster “traditional media,” he said the Federal Communications Commission should conduct a “public value test” of every commercial broadcast station at relicensing time. In a speech at the Columbia […]
December 6, 2010 – 9:40 am
The Hill offers up some potentially good news The DREAM Act — a priority of Democrats in both Congress and the White House — faces a difficult future in the lame duck. Even as Democrats in both chambers prepare to consider the measure this week, Republicans and centrist Democrats are already lining up to shoot […]
December 6, 2010 – 8:50 am
Simply showing that they are yet again attempting to thwart and ignore the will of the people, as they have been mostly doing since Obama took office, Dems are going to push whatever they can Democratic efforts to push through more than 100 public lands and water bills in the lame duck session are reaching […]
