Aug. 21 was a mess for the oil industry. That was the day an oil platform off the northern coast of Australia began leaking 300 to 400 barrels of oil a day into the Timor Sea. Reports are that the leak continues, fouling thousands of miles of ocean and threatening marine life.
Extreme vitriol laces the nation's political discourse less than a year after Barack Obama was elected president by the largest margin in 20 years by running as a uniter and not a divider.
Some on the left have called me a Republican, some on the right have called me a Democrat, and frankly I don't see why I should care, so long as I'm left to decide for myself what I am, absent the need for approval.
Our party has made it clear to the religious right that there will be NO payments for abortion in ANY plan for health care reform. Gee, you would think that would satisfy them.
Despite the tea parties' ostensible purpose of opposing taxation, many of the signs today at the 9/12 march attacked President Obama using explicit racial and ethnic smears.
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