Facing the Dragon - My Brother's Cancer and the Health Care System that...
Cross posted at The Daily Hurricane: My long time readers have heard parts of this story; so if you have, please indulge me this post. It's extremely relevant to our national debate about healthcare...
View ArticleRIP, Uncle Teddy
Cross posted on The Daily Hurricane:I was in bed late last night, watching a rerun of Hardball, one of my favorite political shows when a young reporter broke in. As soon as the Breaking News banner...
View ArticleA Public Life...In the End It Was Private
Cross posted on The Daily Hurricane:By design or circumstance, the final moments of the Era of the Kennedy Brothers ended privately, out of the public view, as the evening light faded over Arlington...
View ArticleHoward Dean Guest Blogs on The Daily Hurricane
Cross posted on The Daily Hurricane:Gov. Howard Dean graciously agreed to be our first guest blogger on The Daily Hurricane. His piece, posted today, talks about my brother and how the current heatlh...
View ArticleWhistleblower: US Pressured Agency to Overplay Oil Production
Cross posted on The Daily Hurricane:A senior official is reporting that the International Energy Agency (IEA) has been intentionally underplaying the rate of decline of existing oil fields and...
View ArticleCopenhagen Climate Conference Next Week. What is That?
Cross posted on The Daily Hurricane:COP 15 is opening in Copenhagen on December 7. COP doesn't stand for Copenhagen; it stands for Conference of Parties, annual meetings that grew out of an...
View ArticleLowering Expectations for Copenhagen Climate Conference
Cross posted on The Daily Hurricane:As you know, COP 15, the UN annual climate conference, opens next week in Copenhagen. Last year, at COP 14 in Poznan, Poland, a framework for negotiation of a...
View ArticleWe Can Make Kids Healthy
Cross posted on The Daily Hurricane:Childhood obesity is a looming crisis that now has the attention of Michelle Obama. Gracie Cavnar writes about Houston's efforts to battle obesity and the sucess of...
View ArticleBob of The Daily Hurricane Talks About the BP Well Blowout
Crossposted on The Daily Hurricane:I have been following the blowout of BP's Mississippi Canyon Block 252 well and subsequent environmental disaster since it occured 11 days ago. You can find our...
View ArticleExperts Now Estimate BP Blowout Well Flow May Be 25,000 Barrels per Day
Crossposted at The Daily Hurricane:We've been reporting on the blowout of BP's Mississippi Canyon Block 252 well since last week. The Wall Street Journal is now reporting that the uncontrolled flow...
View ArticleBlowout Preventer is "Not Closed, ... is Not Going to Close"
Crossposted on The Daily Hurricane:Over the weekend, I've learned a lot through my own research and through contacts within the industry about BP's blowout well, Mississippi Canyon Block 252, and, even...
View ArticleBP Starts Talking About Blowout Well - Sort Of
Crossposted on The Daily Hurricane:BP started talking more about the real problem with the blowout well in the Gulf. The well itself. More below the jump:
View ArticleAn Open Letter to Advocates of Unfettered Gun Ownership
An open letter to Facebook user 2nd Amendment, and other gun advocates on Facebook as well as other social media who advocate unfettered gun ownership, written from the perspective of a gun owner who...
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