Month December 2007

Did Biden, Dodd and Edwards kill Bhutto too?

Washington Note wonders, as are many, why Obama’s chief political strategist tried to imply that Hillary Clinton was somehow responsible for Bhutto’s death. And why Obama made things worse by not denouncing the comments immediately. Obama may have just destroyed…

Serious recycling

Chicken fat into biodiesel Hydrogen power plant fueled by garbage. That’s a whole lot of blorp that won’t be clogging up landfills but will instead be turned into energy.

Pakistan riots

Two dozen dead in Karachi Juan Cole: The seriousness of the situation in the streets of some of Pakistan’s important towns and cities doesn’t seem to me to be being reported in the US press and media. In contrast, Pakistani…

Bhutto. Where was the security?

There were multiple snipers shooting armor-piercing bullets, a decoy suicide bomb, and two of the snipers blew themselves up after firing. There was another attack at the hospital. A working theory, according to this American source, is that Al Qaeda…

Wealthy areas feel subprime pain too

This from Loundon County VA, one of the wealthiest counties in the nation. Real estate taxes fund 72% of their budget but values dropped 10% last year with more drops predicted. Now they have a budget shortfall of $251 million.…