In these deeply troubling times we need to now face a hard reality and stop worrying about convincing President Obama of anything. We need to convince his bosses, Goldman Sachs and a few others on Wall Street that what’s good for the Republic is good for them. We need to convince them that Warren Buffet [...]

I feel like the kid who cried wolf a bunch of times, saying I’d come back to this site again and really do some writing, etc. I don’t really know if anyone’s listening anymore, but I’ve been really swamped with making a TV movie called “Girlfight” up in Vancouver, which turned out really well. It’s [...]

(MARCIA DUNN, AP/THE HUFFINGTON POST) CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Atlantis and four astronauts rocketed into orbit Friday on NASA’s last space shuttle voyage, dodging bad weather and delighting hundreds of thousands of spectators on hand to witness the end of an era. It will be at least three years — possibly five or more [...]

By: Jane Hamsher Thursday July 7, 2011 12:46 pm According to both the Washington Post and the New York Times, Obama is proposing cuts to Social Security in exchange for GOP support for tax hikes. Lori Montgomery in the Post: At a meeting with top House and Senate leaders set for Thursday morning, Obama plans [...]

Even if you aren’t a Sports Fan this is Very Interesting! **************** 36 have been accused of spousal abuse 7 have been arrested for fraud 19 have been accused of writing bad checks 117 have directly or indirectly bankrupted at least 2 businesses 3 have done time for assault 71, I repeat 71 cannot get [...]

By Brian Wingfield, Bloomberg Solar power may be cheaper than electricity generated by fossil fuels and nuclear reactors within three to five years because of innovations, said Mark M. Little, the global research director for General Electric Co. “If we can get solar at 15 cents a kilowatt-hour or lower, which I’m hopeful that we [...]

It’s difficult today not to be tripped up by little things like our President who received the Nobel Peace Prize as he swept into Afghanistan, then invaded Libya, promising to be out in a week or two. How long has it been now? Or the Patriot Act, having been mocked by this same President, then [...]

Just a quick note, popping one’s head out of the rabbit hole of just functioning one day after another. One can live without blogging, without being online…but here I am – maybe inexplicably, maybe unreasonably, maybe only temporarily – back. So much of what has pulled at me (and I know pulls at others as [...]

The Sky Really Is Falling Global climate change has made for freak storms and more intense weather. The result is Hurricane Katrina, this month’s devastating tornadoes and floods, and routine forest fires in California. Here, a tornado touches down in Iowa in 2008. By Chris Hedges The rapid and terrifying acceleration of global warming, which [...]

Natalia Manzurova, one of the few survivors among those directly involved in the long cleanup of Chernobyl, was a 35-year-old engineer at a nuclear plant in Ozersk, Russia, in April 1986 when she and 13 other scientists were told to report to the wrecked, burning plant in the northern Ukraine. It was just four days [...]