A Plague Upon the White House
McCain evidences the underlying motivator attributed to Bush in Oliver Stone's movie: the distorted priorities of a son of privilege doing battle with the legacy of more gifted and responsible family ancestors.
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The Rovian Politics of Choosing Sarah Palin
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Bush Favors Texas Over Louisiana -- Even Bobby Jindal Notices
Governor Jindal has noticed a disparity between the federal government's willingness to lift a recovery burden off the state of Texas and its refusal to do the same for Louisiana.
The Floods: New Orleans, God, and Nature Can No Longer be Blamed
What happened in New Orleans, and what is happening today in the heartland, is the result of a massive infrastructure failure and the siphoning of tax resources into the war economy.
It's the Democracy, Stupid: Campaigns of McCain and Palin Show How They Would Govern
The disconnect between McCain's words and his actions, all in an effort to distort his record, is the central approach to his campaign. And it smells a lot like the last eight years of Bush.
Storm of the Century
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Brad Pitt: NOLA's Oprah
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Wildfires burn homes, kill 1 in Los Angeles area
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Come on, HuffPo. The danger and damage of the fires are bad enough. Using "Downtown Los Angeles" in your headline as sensationalism is not necessary. This is not really near Downtown LA.
That having been said .....
It is times like this that most people remember to acknowledge that we are all human and vulnerable to hardships in our lives.
Thank goodness we are going to have a President in office who is of the heart and mind to understand that and act accordingly.
It's time for honesty, compassion, and goodness to prevail.
My heart goes out to all those being affected in this situation .... and so many others around the world.
It is literally snowing ash in my yard!
I'm half a mile from Van Nuys ariport, and its crazy busy now with copters and planes taking off - and for the first time, I can actually SEE the column of smoke NNW west of me.
It's amazing, the lack of news between Northern and Southern California.
Keep the prayers coming for the folks and animals out there as well as the fire fighters. The sky is pretty smoky last time I looked.
Where exactly is it? What part of the Foothill Freeway? This doesn't tell us.
also Porter Ranch -- 118 fwy in Simi Valley.