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As a defense lawyer I hear all the time about "technicalities" that let the guilty walk free. Well, not so I'd notice. Its technical rules that often allow the state to hold onto a conviction that is improper.
To judge from most media coverage, the beaches are open, the fishing restrictions being lifted and the Gulf resorts open for business in a safe environment. We spent the last few weeks along the Gulf coast, and the reality is distinctly different.
The good news is that the cap is holding. The bad news is that, with the well no longer gushing, the oil is out of sight and out of mind and BP is pulling up boom and pulling back workers and the rest of the clean-up apparatus all across the Gulf.
Rasmussen 7/22/10; 500 likely voters, 4.5% margin of error Mode: Automated phone (Rasmussen release) Alabama 2010 Governor 55% Bentley (R), 35% Spar...
Rasmussen 7/22/10; 500 likely voters, 4.5% margin of error Mode: Automated phone (Rasmussen release) Alabama 2010 Senate 59% Shelby (R), 29% Barnes ...
I finally got to the Gulf coast to work on a story about the oil spill for PBS NewsHour. I didn't see any oil, but what I did witness was a a boatload of fear.
I write this sitting in a Boeing 757, jetting back from the Gulf to NYC. My name is Henry Fair, and I am powerless with petroleum. But I will try to do better.
We're constantly asked, "So...what going to happen in November's midterm elections?" Our answer? "Depends -- on what YOU do." Democracy is not for ...
The question of media access on the Gulf Coast has become a very confusing sequence of orders issued, retracted, clarified, and contradicted.
"In all great novels there is some quality of moral ambiguity, some potentially controversial element that keeps the book from being easily grasped or...
Public Strategy Associates (R) / Baselice & Associates (R) 7/5/10; 1,003 highly likely Republican primary runoff voters, 3.1% margin of error Mode: Li...
As the residue of Steele's remarks starts washing up on beaches nationwide, some top Republicans have suggested hemming Steele in from now until Election Day with miles of sound-absorbent boom.
Darren Kinnaird, a staffer on the Giles Perkins for Alabama Attorney General Campaign, guest posted on my blog today this important message from Howar...
Being at the source is akin to being in a dream world and not knowing if it's comedy or tragedy. Knowledge of the tragedy happening a mile below the sea conflicts with the necessary auto-pilot of making great images.
If you haven't yet made firm plans for your summer vacation, I'm here to tell you from experience that a Gulf Coast vacation can be big fun for the whole gang even if you're too spooked to hit the sands.
There is the flapping tongue, ladies and gentlemen. And then there is the subtle beauty of the upraised middle finger.
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