InksLWC livingwater's Library tagged Breaking → View Popular

05 Mar 09

Well, it’s a move that we here in Michigan have been expecting for a while, but now it’s official. I literally got the message just moments ago: Secretary of State Terri Lynn Land has filed for the Michigan Governor’s race. Unfortunately, I don’t have time to post any commentary, as I’m headed out of town, but here’s the press release that I got

14 Feb 09

Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) just got back from Ohio, where he was attending his mother’s memorial services, and has casted an “Aye” vote for the economic stimulus package. That was the 60th Aye vote needed, since Ted Kennedy (D-MA) was not voting. The 3 Republicans who sided with the Democrats before, Arlen Specter (R-PA), Olympia Snowe (R-ME), and Susan Collins (R-ME) voted with the Democrats.

19 Dec 08

This is news that just broke a little while ago: Mark Felt, the number 2 FBI official during the Watergate scandal, also known as the informant “Deep Throat” died on Thursday at 12:45 P.M. at a hospice facility near his home, according to his daughter Joan. Joan told reporters that he “was fine this morning [and was] joking with his caregiver.” He then ate breakfast and took a nap, saying he was tired. He then died in his sleep. “He slipped away,” she said.

21 Nov 08

This is breaking news coming in now. Attorney General Michael Mukasey has collapsed while giving a speech. He has been rushed to George Washington University Hospital in the nation’s capital. There is no word on his condition or why he collapsed. I will update this as reports come in.

28 Mar 08

This just came in from the YONHAP News Agency out of Seoul, South Korea:
… North Korea test-fired several missiles into the sea off the country’s west coast Friday….
The test, believed to be of Russian Styx missiles [range of 46 kilometers], comes one day after the communist nation threw out all South Korean government officials from the inter-Korean industrial complex in the North in apparent disgruntlement over the Lee Myung-bak government’s hard-line North Korea policy.

21 Mar 08

This just came in through the Associated Press, a statement from Governor Bill Richardson (D-NM): “I believe he is the kind of once-in-a-lifetime leader that can bring our nation together and restore America’s moral leadership in the world.”
Why on earth is he making endorsements at 1:45 A.M. local time?

10 Mar 08

This just in from Fox News and Reuters: Governor and former Attorney General Eliot Spitzer (known as Client 9) is now expected to resign after a scandal broke involving him with a prostitution ring in Washington, D.C. This has been heard from unnamed sources. If he does resign, David Patterson, current Lt. Governor, would take over.

Well, today hasn’t been a good day for New York Governor Eliot Spitzer (Democrat). He’s just made a speech apologizing and not saying much else about 20 minutes ago, after allegations that he was connected to a prostitution ring, Emporers Club VIP, came out today. He was caught on a federal wiretap that was trying to bust a prostitution ring.

02 Mar 08

Today around noon EST, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez ordered his defence minister to “move 10 battalions [several thousand soldiers] to the border with Colombia for me, immediately.” This move is coming in response to Colombia moving 1 mile into Ecuador and killing Raúl Reyes, a top commander of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc), a terrorist organization in Colombia that was started as a military wing of the Colombian Communist Party. Prior to Colombia’s invasion, Chavez had said that a move like this would be “cause for war.”

18 Feb 08

Breaking News: Nancy Reagan, the former First Lady, and wife of America’s best President, the icon of Democracy, Ronald Wilson Reagan, has been hospitalized after falling in her home. There is no word of her status at this point. My prayers go out to her and her family.