On Monday, the effects of last weeks offshore explosion are starting to show a ripple effect. Crude oil is continuing to spill at a current rate of 1000 barrels a day in the Gulf. Officials are stating it could take up to a month to get it control.
On April 20th the Deepwater Horizon caught fire creating an explosion. After it sank, eleven rig workers were presumed dead or missing. The Deepwater is leased to BP and owned by Transocean. It was drilling at a depth of 5.000 feet and was …

The U.S. Supreme Court has denied the application for a “Stay of Execution” (of civil contempt sentence) for jailed attorney Richard I. Fine who has never been charged with or convicted of a crime but has been held in solitary “coercive confinement” in L.A. County Central Men’s jail for over a year. Fine attempted to disqualify L.A. Superior Court Judge David Yaffe for having accepted illegal payments from L.A. County, a party to the case before him, and who ordered him held “indefinitely,” without bail, hearing date or release …

The troop withdrawal from Iraq that will be going on this summer is being carried out as planned. When the President approved the plan, it was assumed that the new Iraqi government would be set up while our troops were being withdrawn. Months later, the troop withdrawal remains even though things are not going as planned with the Iraqi government.
As thousands of troops get ready to leave, it maybe months before the new government is properly set up. The election proved to be very messy with delays along the way. …