Wildfire season is 2 months longer, more destructive now than in the 1970s
Wildfires burn twice as much land as they did 40 years ago and the fire season is two months longer than in the 1970s because of climate change, the chief of the U.S. Forest Service told a Senate...
View ArticleMassive bumblebee kill in Oregon, pesticide spray suspected
An estimated 25,000 bumblebees and many other pollinators have been killed by suspected pesticide poisoning in a Target parking lot in Wilsonville, Oregon. This is the single, largest known incident of...
View ArticleObama administation approves $1.3 billion in military aid for Egypt
The military coup that removed Mohammed Morsi from office is the second coup d'état since 2011. Egyptian presidents serve at the discretion of the Egyptian military. This should surprise no one. The...
View ArticleFrustrated Obama "seriously considering" total U.S. military withdrawal from...
President Obama is considering a full troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, The New York Times reports in an anonymously sourced article. Obama is winding down the U.S. military campaign by the end of...
View ArticleDOE: U.S. Wind Energy Production and Manufacturing Reaches Record Highs
For the first time ever, wind power was the #1 source of new electricity generation in the United States last year. Wind energy is now the fastest growing source of power in the United States –...
View ArticleGrayson "confident" House will defeat Syria war authorization
(Cliff1066™ / Flickr/ Creative Commons) Alan Grayson is whipping against the resolution for the authorization of military force in Syria. He was interviewed on Tuesday by Molly Ball of The Atlantic....
View ArticleWorld War III almost happened on this day, 30 years ago
Stanislav Petrov had just settled into the commander's chair for night duty when the Soviet Union's early-warning satellite system reported that all hell was breaking loose. "Suddenly the screen in...
View ArticleNSA spied on MLK Jr, Sen. Frank Church, Muhammad Ali, and others
Newly declassified documents made public in the National Security Archive at George Washington University show how the National Security Agency (NSA) spied on Americans who were opposed to the Vietnam...
View ArticleAmerica's "real capitalism" vs. Argentina's "crony capitalism"
I rcecall that last month Rep. Paul Ryan made an astute observation of American capitalism in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, December 19, 2013: Ryan, who is Catholic, was asked about Pope Francis'...
View ArticleOvernight News Digest: World Gone To Hell Edition
The Overnight News Digest is nightly series dedicated to chronicling the day's news of import or interest. Everyone is welcome to add their own news items in the comments. Tonight's OND showcases news...
View ArticleOvernight News Digest: June 2014 was World’s Hottest June on Record
The Overnight News Digest is nightly series dedicated to chronicling the day's news of import or interest. Everyone is welcome to add their own news items in the comments. Tonight's OND showcases news...
View ArticleOvernight News Digest: Germany caught spying on USA, Turkey
The Overnight News Digest is nightly series dedicated to chronicling the day's news of import or interest. Everyone is welcome to add their own news items in the comments. Tonight's OND chronicles news...
View ArticleGood News on Global CO2 Emissions
"Global emissions of carbon dioxide from the energy sector stalled in 2014, marking the first time in 40 years in which there was a halt or reduction in emissions of the greenhouse gas that was not...
View ArticleA hunka hunka burnin’ love
Elvis Presley spent 15 weeks on the charts in 1972 with “Burning Love”. It reached #2 the weeks of October 21 and 28 on the Billboard Hot 100. It was his biggest hit in the U.S. since the 1969 single...
View ArticleCongressman John Lewis, or when a real hero goes to Comic-Con
Rep. John Lewis at Comic-Con. Rep. John Lewis is at San Diego Comic-Con to promote March, a graphic novel trilogy he co-write. The novel is about the civil rights movement and the first two volumes...
View ArticleOvernight News Digest: Even Ocean Depths Are Warming
The Overnight News Digest is nightly series dedicated to chronicling the day's news of import or interest. Everyone is welcome to add their own news items in the comments. Tonight's quick fill-in OND...
View ArticleOvernight News Digest: Syrian Exodus
The Overnight News Digest is nightly series dedicated to chronicling the day's news of import or interest. Everyone is welcome to add their own news items in the comments. Tonight's quick fill-in OND...
View ArticleBiden on Colbert
In a heartfelt, honest, and emotionally raw interview, Vice President Joe Biden talked about grief, his son Beau, and the 2016 presidential race with Stephen Colbert on the Late Show on Thursday...
View Article"Miserable" JEB whines at SC campaign stop, says rather do "really cool...
Oh wow! John Elias Bush threatened to take his ball and go home at a town hall in Charleston, South Carolina. CBS News reported on Saturday, Bush said: "If this election is about how we're going to...
View ArticleWhite middle-class America: "Half a million people are dead who should not be...
The death rate for white middle-aged Americans with less than a college education is rising at a "startling rate", the Washington Post and other newspapers reported today. The mortality rate for white...
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