Archive | January, 2010
UN Peacekeepers Among the Dead
Many, many lives are likely to have been lost in Haiti. Reports indicate that entire areas of the country have been destroyed. Port-Au-Prince is said to have more destroyed buildings than standing ones. We won’t know the full extent of damage until later today. But we can already confirm that among the dead are UN [...]
Status of Port-Au-Prince Airport
13. January 2010
All reports indicate that not only is the international airport in Haiti’s Port-Au-Prince closed today, but it’s seriously damaged. CNN even says the air traffic control tower is “gone”. Meanwhile, passengers from one of the last flights out of Haiti say the airport itself had sever cracking. Pictures from iReport on CNN seem to confirm [...]
Haitian Disaster: Major Hotel Reportedly Collapsed
13. January 2010
A major hotel catering to hundreds of tourists was reportedly among the infrastructural collapse as a result of the major earthquake in Haiti yesterday. According to French Minister of Cooperation Alain Joyandet, the Hotel Montana — seen here — collapsed in its entirety. He says several hundred French tourists can not be accounted for after [...]
More Breaking News From Haiti
12. January 2010
Let’s be clear: “Disaster” doesn’t quite describe the situation in the western hemisphere’s poorest nation. “Catastrophe” doesn’t seem strong enough, either. It’s that bad at this point. For starters, the UN headquarters building has collapsed. Gone. A large number of the organization’s personnel are unaccounted for. The United States embassy, which seems to still be [...]
Haitian Earthquake Round-Up
12. January 2010
Strength & Time At about 5:28 pm ET a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck the poor island nation of Haiti. It’s the strongest to hit the island in over 200 years. Aftershocks Since the initial quake there have been at least five aftershocks, the most powerful reaching a magnitude of 5.9. One report from someone on [...]
MLK Niece: Reid Was Calling Obama “White House Negro”
12. January 2010
With prominent political analysts now saying Harry Reid is likely to lose his re-election campaign, this probably wasn’t the press coverage Dingy Harry wanted. “I don’t care who said it,” she told CNSNews.com. “It doesn’t matter to me. It’s still wrong. It’s outrageous to say that we are going to let a man have a [...]
Coakley, Dems Paying Union Members to Support Her Candidacy
12. January 2010
A video posted by an activist from a rally outside the debate hall from yesterday exposes something remarkable: Union members are being paid $50 per person to hold signs for and support Martha Coakley. She’s the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Massachusetts. In fact, some of the members holding signs don’t support Coakley at [...]
Governor John Hickenlooper?
12. January 2010
Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper has joined the race for Colorado governor. Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper plans to announce his bid for governor at a 4:15 press conference this afternoon the west steps of the Capitol. Hickenlooper timed his announcement to occur before the opening of the Colorado General Assembly on Wednesday and Ritter’s State of [...]
Conan O’Brien to NBC: Adios!
12. January 2010
Tonight Show host Conan O’Brien has just issued a statement announcing that he won’t move to a time slot after Jay Leno. Basically, he’s telling the network to drop dead. Good for him. As Ace says, Conan’s been mistreated by NBC since the beginning. I’m not crying for him as he’s quite wealthy from his [...]
Scott Brown’s Reagan Moment
12. January 2010
There comes a time when some select candidates have what we call a “Reagan Moment”. Ronald Reagan had many of these, not the least of which was his famous question, “Are you any better off than you were four years ago?”. He won that election after voters answered that question with a “no”. Scott Brown, [...]
13. January 2010
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