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Candidate Obama Was Prescient about Greece

May 17th, 2012

By Dan Miller Realizing even then that a small nation would show the way during his first term in office, Candidate Obama materialized against a backdrop of sturdy Styrofoam Greek columns to accept his 2008 presidential nomination.

Articles written by Dan Miller
Tags: disaster, economy, Greece, Messiah, monuments, Obama, renting, satire
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Please Stop Calling It a Spill!

June 21st, 2010

By Dr. Jim Taylor My almost-five-year-old daughter knocked over her glass of milk the other night at dinner. The result? A small puddle of milk on and under our kitchen table otherwise known as spilled milk. My wife’s and my reactions? “Oops. You spilled your milk. Oh well, accidents happen. Let’s clean it up.” With […]

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Tags: BP, cataclysm, catastrophe, devastation, disaster, Gulf, milk, oil spill
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The Day After

June 16th, 2010

By Larry Ennis I intended to write something yesterday before the President made his Oval Office pitch. After all the efforts put forth by White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, I was expecting more. I knew the President would use the Gulf catastrophe to put forth his energy tax/cap-and-trade agenda. After the obligatory shot at […]

Articles written by Larry Ennis
Tags: 9/11, BP, cap-and-trade, commission, disaster, Gulf, Obama, oil spill
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Al Underwater

June 6th, 2010

By Larry Ennis The great BP oil spill that is destroying the Gulf Coast brought back some old memories. When I was a young man one of my heroes was a gentleman named Al Hanson. Al, his wife Norma, and their daughter Jeanie were our neighbors. We lived in a small suburb of Avalon, California. Avalon […]

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Tags: BP, Catalina Island, deep-sea diving, disaster, oil
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The Tragedy of Haiti

January 18th, 2010

By Tom Carter Like most everyone else, I’m following the news out of Haiti pretty closely. The photos and videos are appalling. Estimates of the number of dead range from 50,000 to 200,000 or more, but no one knows the true number. Many more thousands of people are injured. Hundreds of thousands are homeless, living in the streets […]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: aid, corruption, disaster, earthquake, Haiti, reconstruction, violence
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